Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-03
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PosroFFToE, MEMPHIs.A August 2, 1870.

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Editors AppedG-This office is informed
by the postal clerk on the steamer Dan.
Able, that the mail lesving this office at
1890 on Saturday, July so, for st. Louis,
Cairo, Chicago and the western mail,
was all lost by the burning of that steam
er at Columbus, Kentucky, on Saturday
j. R. DURFF.
w. y. MitchelI's school, SOS Third st.
Look at Joe w. Sails advertisement
"for sale"
The best bargains in pianos will be
found at 233 Main street. Call and see.
A private letter tells us that Captain
Sam. p. Rose viii very certainly be elected
10 the Legislature from Upton.
A large stock of second hand 7-octave
pianos for rent or sale, at II. G.. HOllen-
berg's, Clay Building.
Judge Leonard is not in the race for
the Probate Judgeship. The APPEAL
published his card OF withdrawal some
days ago.
n. q. Hollenberg has q fine assort-
ment Of Chickeriug Pianos, the best and
cheapest irst-class piano in the world.
Sold on easy terms.
The committee of the City Council
have unanimously agreed to give the
Raleigh Welsh railway the right of way
down Third street to Court Square.
The wound inflicted by the furious
negro fiend upon Mrs. Martin may not
prove fatal. She is warmly congratulated
on her escape by very many who are her
personal friends and admirers.
John Norton, Mike Pyne and James
Hall are the straight Democratic candi-
dates in the Fourteenth Civil District.
Don fail to vote for them. They, each
Of them, give strength TO the party.
The Grand Jury now in session has
sent for q multitude Of peopleas witnesses
and it is inferred that rascals will have a |
hard time generally. Those addicted to
the use Of rszors asdeadly weapons are
thought TO be especially in danger.
Many persons labor under the i'm
preston that in order to vote tomorrow,
a pOll-tax must be paid. This is a mis- |
take. The tax defined by the new Con- 4
stitution as a prerequisite to the right of
suffrage is not yet imposed by b action
OF the Legislature.
IL the country, the Radical candi-
dates for magistrates' places are mostly
cOlored, and if we do not exert ourselves
tomorrow we shall have most important
positions in the county filled by men
stupidity ignorant and utterly NIT to de-
termine questions involving moral or le-
gal or property rights.
The subordinate officer of the Silver
Spray who spoke Of leaving the boat at
this place, when the Spray passed up, was
induced to do so because of some i'll feel
ing between himself and the Captain, and
not as was stated because he thought the
boats boilers unsafe.
Colonel p. NJ. Winters is the regularly
nominated candidate for Magistrate in the
Fifth Civil District, and should receive,
not only as q partisan bU; because Of his
personal worth and fitness for the office,
the unanimous support otthe Democratic
party. Don't fail, therefore, in the Fifth
District to vote for Pat, Winters.
The multitude of negroes now gather
ing here TO be used in to-morroW's cleo
ton, should be properly instructed by
the white fellows who have these blacks
in charge. The poll books OF each voting
place will be rigidly ~Overhauled, and
every illegal vote will be traced to it's
deposition, and such voter will be prose-
cHted, even to the penitentiary. Those
from Mississippi and Arkansas will be
caught and held under arequisition from
the Governor of Tennessee, and neither
money nor toll viii be spared in effect
ing convictions. 1t matters not what
may be the result of the election, its fair
ness and honesty will be carefully
guarded and negroes and whites must be
taught, finally and forever, that the pu-
rity of the ballO box must be maintained
and ylndicsted.
We congratulate our Democratic
friends OF the signal victory which the
uncomfortable Democracy Of Kentucky
achieved on Monday. The contest was
similar TO that now going on in Tennes-
see. 1t was a battle between the negroes,
the csrpet-baggers, the independents and
the scum aud riff-ratfs on one side, and
on the other the white taxpayer and the
wealth, talent and decency of the State.
contest was characterized by violence
and riots. But the Democracy have
arvant tho Sfuaa Tho q MIGHTY famnagt
The victory is glorious. Tho Democratic
banner waves in triumph upon the bat
Elements of the enemy. Louisville, the
metropolis of the State, gave near five
thousand majority for the Democrats. .
Will not Memphis, the commercial en- .
pOrium Of Tennessee, roll up tomorrow :;
a saving majority for the Democratic
ticket2 |,
Never was there such an attractive I
story told OF q summer excursion as that I
heralded abroad by General Boyd, Presl- I
dent Of the Memphis and Louisville road. {
He proposes 10 empty Memphis into Put
In Bay, at $50 80 per head, and send us all I
over Niagara Falls for $5S each. Who '
wouldn't 20 on such q " bender7" hin /
we leave Memphis Saturday, will pay the 1
travelling cost of the round trip from {
Memphis TO Lake Erie and the Northern 8
world th~ereabouts, and return; and $3S I
takes o to Niagara and back, and you {
can remain there as long as you please. I
Your tickle does not expire. 1t is sup /
posed that 5000 people from Memphis and !
vicinity, will take advantage of these ex- c
traOrdinary propositions Of General
BOyd's railways, and scatter over the c
Northern and Eastern States. Grant is ]
suspected Of an anxiety to involve US in :
the European war, and no one suspects
him of brains enough to keep out, IL either
Russia or Germany seeks to involve him
as an ally. While we have peace, let us
travel; when war comes we can't. /.
Yesterday q negro was arrested who :
was supposed to be the murderous fellow :
that shot his wife and Mrs. Martin last :
Sunday. The supposed culprit was badly :
frightened, and well he might rave been. 9
There war danger that he would suddenly
and very unceremoniOusly pull hemp b.
with nothing to stand upon. When I
brought into the city The supposed mur- Z
derer was foun to be a very innocent and |
Ignorant son of HaIl. He was liberated :
and ran away chG"4ling and soliloqaizing
with infinite selE-satisfaction. He pock- I
eted a dollar given him by a gentleman {
who had mistaken his identity, with a I
broad grin, and said, Of you'll gim me i
nun Oh dem you may hang dis Niger I
cherry day or two" On the st. Louis {
wharfboat the escaped culprit recited his {
adventures with marvellous volubility, ]
and said he never was anxious TO shoot I
anybody, but IL God fOrgave him for this !
small experiment, which involved only
suspicion, he would ave his whole phis- :
ingnomy made over again, that he might
never resemble a murderer, or anybody
else.
Amos Sprinkle, a fiatbOatman, now OF !
COVingtOn, KY, who was once a Memphis
sswharf-rat," has succeeded IN aecumu-
lstinR q very considerable fortuna, not ,
the smallest item of which was steamboat
contracts, through Jesse, for Gen, Grants
operations on the Mississippi. He and an
old blatherskite squire Of the name of
Francis, and an old retired leather dealer
named Eastman, and a very few Others
curry and rub down the old "hoss" that {
rum the ricksty machine called the Gov
ingtOn postofhee. He hates the citizens ]
OF C~ovingtOn as cordially as they hate
him; and although he has accumulated q
fortune OF Si5O,O0O in the place since his
son became President. he docs not and ]
WOnld not invest q dollar in the city. His 7
dwelling house, a Yrey plain, ordinary
building, Is the only property he owns in 1
COYington. To this town he il quite as I
much of an n6ubusa as at the White House {
when the question of paternal preference
was discussed as between him and the G
senior Dent. We are not at all displessed, l
however, III robbery must be practiced,
that a share Of the spoils falls into the
clutches Of old loRfsrs onee familiarity =
known in this city. n
We unite with the congregation of the t
Second Presbyterian church IN the regret 9
so general that their beloved pastor con- &
templates retiring, on account of i'll c
health, from a pastoral charge wherein he
has distinguished himself by zeal. devo- =
tian and signal ability. And we unite u
with many Of our friends of the second c
Church in the expression of 8 hope that a b
man who has endeared himself beyond o
even his immediate sphere OF labor, and