Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-11

South Carolina papers show hat Whit
temore is earnestly canvassing his dis.
trict for 3 return TO Congress.
The population Of St. Joseph, No, il
it increases at the same rate as the
last four years, in 1850 will exceed 49,
900.
1t is estimated that the number Of per
sons still d-isfranchised uuder the Four
tenth amendment from all State and
Federal offices. samOunts to two hundred
and fifty Thousand
General John Logan is ''going for
General Sherman without Gloves He
proposes to question his courage and to
prove that Tecumseh was never within
ride shot Of the rebels" during the
war.
While renewed efforts are being made
IN British India to increase the prOduc-
ton Of cotton in that locality, Congress IS
tormenting u cotton-growing States,
and not allowing the people 70 meet the
British movement in a proper manner.
The BaHael saws the reconstruction of
Tennessee is a Radical and Republican
impossibility TO begin with-nOt that the
Congress has not the p0UeT TO do almost
ANYTHING that it ehOOses-but because
the Republican party can not DO u and
hUs.
A large public meeting has been held in
Chicago, under the call Ofthe leading bus
mess men. 10 fDLE>AQbE lAb SuDIbGL Dl lax
atica. They ask for q reduction of nifty.
million dollars. for the repeal of the in
come tax, and Tor a general reorganization
Of the :arih.
In order that the Republican party may
get the full benefit of the negro vote in
The Northern States, several prominent
colored men are making arrangements 10.
stump the North and organize the Loyal
Leagues wherever a handful Of negroes
NAV be found.
We do not know that it is any particu-
lar benefit 70 mankind that the Colt Fire
arms Company have invented a new
pOcket-pistOl, very easily concealed, be-
ing only four and one-hslf inches long,
vet throwing a ball of fOrty-one hun
dreths OF an inch.
A Boston writer comes TO the defense of
women against the current notion that
thew are peculiarly addicted TO gossip,
alleging that IN a country grocery store,
among barrels Of mOlasses and piles of
salt fish, more gossip is talked by men in
one evening than is heard in all the farm
houses of the town.
Those two profound and sedate states
men, Bingham and Butler, are wrangling
about the way TO spell Republican" Our
the DlspGtch, thinks it
ought 70 be spelled with a small ~" So
DO we: and considering the character of
the party leaders, il ought 10 be the small
est "rn manufactured.
The Milan Tenn Times SAYS: We no.
tiee that the wheat crop around Milan Is
looking remarkably well, and the pros
pect fair. The recent cold snap, We feared,
had injured it seriously, but the mild and
genial weather that is BOW opened upon
"a we trust viii i~nvigOrate il. We fear,
however, that the fruit is all killed.
The planting interests of Calhoun coun-
tv, Ga, are greatly injured for want sf
- - A.
last wear. The same may be said of Baker
and other adjoining counties. Oats, wheat
and rye look well. Corn is up on some
plantations and looks vigorous. The
planters are nearly through corn plant
ing.
The Dahlonega (Ga.) Signal states that
corr is selling az 81 40 per bUsbel from
wagons in its section, and adds: We
further report that the high price Of corn
here has put it out Of reach Of the poor,
and many people in the upper and north
ern portion Of this county are on the eve
% starvation They must have relief from
sOme source"
The New York Sorosis bears on its roll
the names Of thirty-eight newspaper and
magazine writers, six editors, twelve
poets, six musical artists, twenty-five
authors, two physicians, four artists =
painting. nine workers in art, ain teach
ers, ten lecturers, one historian. one COM
piIer Of scientific works, aud three we'll
known philanthropists.
It is reported from Washington that
the Republican politicians are bringing to
bear all the influence in their power 20
cause the President to postpone his pur-
pose Of issuing a message TO Congress re-
commanding general amnesty 10 all par
Elephants in the late rebellion. The oppO-
siti0n TO the measure takes the usual
form Of charges Of disloyalty and dis0r-
orders in the South.
Western Texas viii not again be sub
iect to drOuths, as 10 is fast becoming a
timber country. Within the Las. ten
wears the whol face of the country has
chsnged, and the young forests are now
owing in what was formerly a ack
srafie. Rains throughout this section
baSb been general, and the prospect for
ifui crops was never Deter.
Sir Charles Bright. recognized Is one Of
the foremost of living selagraphic engi-
neeus, and iaentifsd With ~ Atlaotic
Cable euisrpLiTs = ie hrr Encineer Sc
1ectsd for hby ar. Gyms ". Yield, sailed
o ThursdsY LAST EoM sew York for Ha-
vsnae - sc~per.ntsnd the laying Of the
eabl&. f0a4 ua1gs in leaeth, which are eX-
oe.rHUni1 The Pacific and Atlantic
coasts q Sculh America with Cuba and
United States.
The latest ohcialretUrns as they appear
in the columns Of the Nashville EaiOH
and AmsricGa of Saturday gives b
vote for and against the new Constitu-
For. Against.
East Tennessee.-......-....l5, 659 lZ,OI3
Middle Tenness -.-..-..4s ,455 T,1l9
West ennessee-SS,s Os $3.50
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The Nashville Banner Of Friday says:
Coffee county viii, in the course of a few
g. --a~-[--s4~a -. -. 4Fo rv,g--.FE-.
of several Of its best citizens TO Califor-
MIA. The following persons are making
preparations to settle Ia that far-of State:
J. s. Webster, ia Webster, 5. W. Hall, {
G.W. Hall, Mr.. Brooks, DC. Hawkings and I
perhaps several others, including two or Z
three young men without families-in all 7
all about forty persons. :
The Ngatiraakawa natives OF New !
have sent a petition 70 the Queen :
England in regard to their troubles of ,
local government. The petition begins !
quantity MISUNDERSTANDING. 5
Madam, listen TO the troubles Of your
What was done by the gov o
What they said agreed with what me-
old Us by the ministers Of r. ,
they spoke Of your Or .ae Gospel. !
Maori people -acious name 70 the .
what is done is bad. ;
,va have the views of the New /
vork EUeniag Posi- on the kadlcs1 aeie4e [
J Nonnaeiir1t and what caused II. IL !
IN - Storm was doubtless unfavora- :
on he whole, 10 the Republicans, Rot !
pc IA lave been less so had their party Z
~ bsan ~ great as i once was, ihen I
md ire direct desertion Of the 1
asrty 81 many Of them, are the Ies1 Tvs
s~pparently, Of no Dissatisfaction Win ~ t tne
res mi solelv Of the national conduct
II the party. - Z
Two Methodist Conferences are ~ t
ssnt IN session in this city, one OF L
esfcb will Investigate the strange case o. Z
81 Horace Cook, who IT VIII pc remeH- D
@-aa vas unpleasanNy implicated ~ r
Svsterious escapagf Rth ayounGlsoy Y