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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

sound as of the explosion of gunpowder.
In Italy, too, the cold has been intense.
The New York Tribune Of Saturday
says: 81 wish all the liquor was out of
the world, " said miserable Jack Reynolds;
and for the sake of such as Reynolds so
do we. The gallows yesterday once more
accused every rum-shop; the -executioner
drank the health Of the publican; rum
WAS again the test of our institutions, and
we were weighed in the bottle, as it were,
and found wanting.
The Stockton (Cal.) Republican tells of
a duel near that place fought between
JOIN B. Wilson, son of Senator ID. u.
Wilson, and Charles Z. Beane, late Of the
Confederate service. They fought with
rifles at ten PAGES, fired two shot each,
resulting in slightly wounding Wilson
and afterward an smicable 'make up"
The model Of Rhinehart's statue of
Chief Justice fancy, ordered by the Leg
islature, OF Maryland, for erection at An
napolis, has arrived. It viii be of bronze,
and placed in a conspicuous LOCALITY
about the State Capitol. A movement Is
on foot by the authorities of Baltimore
10 procure a COPY of the same for q OF
Us public squares.
Wendell Phillips is in favor of furnish
ing outright, at public expense, TO each
negro, or negro family, a plough, mules,
a seasons supply OF tOOd ana forage, seeus
and agricultural tools, and a thousand
dollars cash. This is a moderate demand,
considering il is to be done at the public
expense. Wendell never gave out OF his
own pocket the value Of a mules skin 10
q negro.
An English workman who visited this
country recently finds, among other
things, that women are gradually taxing
the place of men in all skilled occupa-
tons; that the American system oftrades-
unions has all the evils and none OF the
strengtb of the English organizations,
and that the condition of the working
| men in the United States is no better than
that of those in England.
Mrs. Annie Cora Mowatt is the author
Of this paragraph: "A lady, h wife OF a
mavor Of q town in the provinces, came
to London and had two casts tsken Of
her leg: one nude, and one with the neat
little shoe, stocking and garter. Strange
to saw Though no artist will call 1t
s~trangel, the leg with the stocking and
parter produced an effect much further
removed from mOdesty than the leg quite
unclad."
The Washington correspondent Of the
| New York Citizen and Round Table says:
1T will not be long before there will be
colored pages in the House OF Represent
atives and the Senate, to be followed up
| by the appointment of bouquet holders,
to drown the peculiar perfume which, as
warm weather is approaching, will arise
from the galleries of the tive Houses,
where the idle vagabonds of thai race
congreeate daily in numbers, filling the
air with an objectionable stencil, and the
seats with vermin."
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

GOVERNOR ALCoRN has recently
delivered himself on the subject OF
lunacy; and, in a message, suggested
the probability that in Mississippi the
number will be increased by emanci-
patton from $50, now a public charge,
up to 800. He says;
Freedom and slavery present a painful
difference in statistics OF insanity. The
mental activity OF the one involves a
heavy penalty in the high percentage of
its insane, while the mental stagnation of
the other has, in the merciful dispense
ton of Providence, permitted the slave to
enjoy the blessing of reason with compar-
stively rare exceptions. While the whites
show in every 10000 about rs lunatics,
and the free coloredshow In every loo, 900,
II lunatics, the slaves show in every 100
O00 but ten lunatics. As the percentage
of Il in every 100, 600 among the free col
ored, freedom will have added to the in
sane, liable to become a charge upon the
State, between $50 and 800. While the
whites appear TO have kept two-thirds of
their lunatics under private care, the adj
ditions about to develop themselves
amongst that class of the afflicted, being
from the ranks of the poor, will fall with
hardly an exception, under the care of
the public.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

THE disease designated by physi-
clans as "meningitis," which is an
Inflammation OF the membranes of
the brain or Of the spinal cord, or
both, appears from our exchanges to
prevail to an extent in many quarters
of the country; and as, likeall others,
we may also be subject to it, we
subjoin from the Mobile Register the
following extract, from a communica-
ton over the signature of DR.. VIM.
H. Beatty of that city, setting forth
the premonitory symptoms, mode of
treatment, etc. He says:
The disease (cerebo spinal meningitis)
is prevailing so extensively in portions
of this city, (Mobile,) and Is so almost
universally fatal when not treated antil
it is fully formed, that 1 have thought
that / might do good by calling attention,
through the press, to the premonitory
symptoms. Unfortunately, in q great
many cases, these are entirely absent, the
patient being in his usual health and
spirits up to the very moment of his
seizure, but very generally the attack is
preceded by more or less pain of the
hCCas b5PGCAhALl III III AOA0AO04 oIo DAlA
of the head. The pain is usually on
slant, but sometimes intermittent.
Pain is also frequently felt in the back
of the neck, with soreness of the joints
and limbs. In some cases there is giddi-
ness of vision or dizziness of hearing.
Occasionally the attack commences with
a feeling of chillness, succeeded by slight
fever, these alterations OF heat and chill
ness frequently recurring. Or, finally, thu
attack may ommenee with severe pain in
the stomach or bowels with great nausea
and perhaps vomiting. When any of
these symptoms show themselves in a
locality where the disease is prevailing,
no time should be lost in consulting a
physician, for if taken in its early stages,
no disease yields more readily to treat
ment; whereas, if left to fully develop
itself, there is no disease which
is. more uniformly fatal, resisting,
most frequently, every plan Of treat
meRt. While waiting for the ply
stefan, use the hot mustard and pepper
foot-bath, as hot as it can be borne, keep
ing the feet in half an hour and keeping
up the temperature by the addition of hot
water, from time to time; rub the me
well with kerosene oil, or spirits oI-tur-
pentine, and afterward apply to the spine
and pit of the stomach a mustard plas-
ter, and take an active cathartic. There
is nothing better than castor oil and
spirits of turpentine; in bad cases, assist
ing its action by large injections of warm
salt and water, using as much salt as the
water will dissolve,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

IN Governor Senter's examination
before the reconstruction committee,
the chief subject of inquiry was into
his reasons for calling for troops.
That is what we would like to know.
He testified that Tennessee t0as, and
had been for the past eighteen months,
in a state Of perfect peace, both as re-
garded protection 10 life and property,
and respect for the authority Of the
general goUernment.v Why then did
he call for troops? Was it TO infame
the mind of the North, to throw fresh
fuel into the reconstruction scheme, to
excuse and promote the ends and
schemes of Butler, the blear
and malignant? The moment was
suspicious for that purpose,
and the call was made in the
nick of time, just when it was thought
Butler was strong and the extremists
ready to strike. Was that Senter's
object? If not, what was it, when
the State was in ''perfect peaee?'
Why did be call for troops, when, ac-
cording to his own sworn testimony,
there was no heed of it? Did he call
arhen ii UGs safe to do that for political
purposes and REGARDS, and then refuse
to stoear to the only necessity aChich
could justify the call for fear Of The
pains. and penalties Of perjury? Was
he bold and mean enough to cry vol
when there was no wolf; and is he
now too conscientious or too craven
to stand to it that there was a wolf,
sure enough? Let him answer why
he called for troops if he dare. He
will never answer that question, and
let US know what ak it was that he
was trying to grind.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

THE New York Independent has
taken some pains to hunt up and
present statistics showing the progress
of railroads in the United States since
1929. The following resume will be
found interesting. And yet, vast as
are the figures already disclosed, 1t is
only a beginning, and falls far short
of indicating the great railroad future
of this country when the dominions
of Congress shall be ribbed all over
with iron bands like the network Of a
screen or a cage. We clip the follow
ingj
In 1880 twenty-three miles we're opened,
and in lS4S we had 5O96 miles completed,
showing an average of 80 miles per an
mum. In 1860 we had 30,635 miles, the
annual average of advance being about
1868 miles. From 1860 to 1868 our annual
increase of railways was but l455, which
is easily accounted for by the late war.
During the year 1865 the increase was
greater, with n exception, than ever be-
fore, it being 2979 miles, and in 1869 the
estimated increase is set down at 5000
miles. The total number of miles of rail-
way in the United Gtates, as the figures
now stand, is 1926 miles. On the LIST of
January, 1866, the six New England States
had 40l9 miles of railway, the six Middle
States had 1885, miles, the ten Western
States had 1889 miles, and the three Pa
cifc States had $50 miles of road. Penn
s~ylvania was the "banner" State as to rail-
road mileage-having 1893 miles on the
LIST of January, 1869; Illinois stood next
on the list, having $40 miles, n Ohio
and New York were about equal, each
having about 300 miles. In proportion
to the number of square miles OF terri
tory, Massachusetts, was far in advance
of any other State, having 1850 miles of
road to 1900 square miles, or an average
of one mile of road to every 5i7 square
miles ratio which, if extended to the
whole United States, would give 100000
miles of railway. The cost of all these
roads, as computed at the close of 1868,
was set down in round numbers at 81 $780,
100000. And the cost of the roads COM
pleted in 1859, at an average of s44 900 per
mile, and we nave a total cost of S2,070,-
co., 900, an amount nearly equal to the ma
tiOnal debt. The aggregate tonnage of
these roads in 1858 was about 75,OOO,O00
tons, valued at si0,472,2 Isl 900. This
is equal to about six times
their cost, and would pay four such ma
tional debts as the country now owes.
The year 1870 opens with an exceedingly
brilliant promise for railway progress.
The American Railroad Journal for De-
cember %, 1869, informs US that about
three hundred enterprises of this ohsrsp-
ter are now under way, and that in the
course of the next two or three years,
they will be completed, adding some 49,
600 miles more TO the railroads of the
country, to say nothing of others to be
undertaken during this period, Some. of
these roads are hundreds of miles in
tapping fertile and rich districts
of country, bringing them within easy
reach of the great markets of the land,
leading to a very rapid increase of popu-
lation and adding millions upon millions
to the wealth of the nation.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14


SENATOR HOWARD, of Michigan,
lately declared that "a majority of the
voters of Georgia are opposed to the
Republican party, and opposed to
the government of the United States"
As this government is a bad govern
ment, and the Republican party is
responsible for it, the Senator would
have done better to give the reason
why they should not oppose it, than
meanly to condemn them for the
fact. The Philadelphia Age thus
truthfully responds to himi
1t is undoubtedly true that g large ma
jority of the voters of Georgia and all
the Southern States are opposed to the
Radical party, its measures and men.
The Radicals put this fact upon record
when they appealed to the bayonet, not
the ballot, for reconstruction, and substi-
tuted military despOtism for the will and
wish of the people. AT no time could a
single county have been carried for the
Radical party, if the people had been al
lowed to express their sentiments in a
name consistent with the theory
of our system of government. This
was well known by Senator Howard and
those with whom he acts, and hence they
placed States and people under military
rule, and allowed generals and those in
command to control the elections, place
what ballots in the box they pleased, and
return candidates as elected who would
not have q score of votes under a free
election. The Radical party has no hold
upon the people of the South, and the
political contests in that section have
been cheats and frauds. But while this
portion Ex-senator Towards declaration Is
true, 1t Is not true hat the people of the
South are opposed to the government of
the United States in a general sense.
They are opposed to the government of
the Radical party, to outrages upon the
Ter and their bigoted and corrupt fol-
lowers. They are opposed to having the
Constitution infracted under the guise of
amendments, to the substitution of tie
sword for the ballot, to the dOminionA =
negroes, to the degradation of whits meDE
to bad avs administered by baa
men. They are opposed to merg-
ing the Judicial and Executive
branches of the government in the Legis-
lature, the appointment of Judges of the
Supreme Court of the United States, for
the sole purpose of giving a political bias
to the decisions of that once august tri-
bunal. To allthese outrages,a majority of
the people of the South are opposed. And
so they should be, but they are not Op-
posed to the government OF the United
States when administered in a proper
manner, and with due regard to the the
Dry and principles of a republican form
government.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

In commenting upon the late cleo
ton in Connecticut, the New Haven
Register says: "Negro suffrage lost
Mr. Jewell many votes, and he gained
none. There are thousands of Re
publicans who have always voted
against negro suffrage in Connecticut.
Many of them have declared that they
would not vote with the Republican
party after negroes were allowed to
vote" And they kept their word
right nobly. The white men of this
country are not prepared to endorse
negro suffrage; to admit negroes to
schools, and all places of amusement;
and they will show this feeling at the
polls, if a proper channel is opened for
such action.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

In relation to the present attitude
of the Supreme Court, a Washington
correspondent says: SIT is not at all
certain that the decision in the legal
tender case will be reversed. 1 wrote
some time ago that although Judge
Davis did not concur in the opinion OF
the Court as delivered, it by no means
follows that he (by siding with the
four Radical judges would consent to
a reversal of the Judgment then rem
dered. 1t is very doubtful whether
he can be brought to do this, and L
am more convinced than ever that he
oanuot
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14
THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL.

Fechter is still in Boston.
"Frou-FroU" is as popular as Shoe
Fly"
The Hutchinson family are concertizing
in Florida.
Paris is to have only ten nights of AIDE
lima Patti.
Parepa Rosa is to have a grand recep-
tion in Chicago.
All Burnett, Blind Tom and Helen
Nash are in Omaha.
The Richings are making a profitable
tour through the South. They deserve it.
The blondes - the New York stage are
changing their color 10 the popular Afri-
can tint.
Pauline Markham, since her return TO
New York has refused a dozen offers. The
fools are not all dead.
S. n. Pike proposes to build Cincinnati
a new hotel and opera house, if the citi-
zens Of that city will give aid to the pro
ject.
The Pantin tragedy, including the exc
cution of the murderer Traupmann. has
been represented on the stage in Ham
burg.
The Kiralfy troupe, D. L. MorYs, Harry
Stanwood, and Nelse Seymour, were at
the Adelphi, Boston, during the past
week.
Rose Etyinge, the actress, was married
to George H. Butler nephew of General
B. f. Butlerl, and proceeds to Egypt with
her husband, who has Just been appointed
United States Consul.
The front seats in the parquette at the
theater where LYDIA Thompson is to ap-
pear in New York have been engaged by
a party of young noodles, who viii at
tand armed with iVOrV-mOuntad horaa-
whips, which will be thrown on the stage
amid the shower Of bouquets.
A rival manager announces "The
Brunettes," in co~ntrsdistinc-
tion to the rival " British Blondes" The
brunettes, like their fair sisters, make
burlesaue their trump card, and further.
like them. appear in King Pippin," OF
the White Cat" which is the same
Mime. Adelina PATHS recent farewell at
the Opera House in st. Petersburg seems
10 have been a succession of triumphs.
A fer the first act of "CrispinO" the En-
neror proceeded to congratulate the pop
Mar favorite, while the chef d'Orchestre
handed her a magnificent bouquet of
lsmeiias with a brooch. in the center of
was an enormous pearl, surround
ID by thirty diamonds. The Jewel, worth
nearly 43000, was the gin or club. Six
recalls followed. g came the first act
the "Traviata," followed by eight re-
a shower Of flowers, etc, and the
mad sceneV from Lucia" concluded
he performance. After this, however,
dme. Patti was veritably crowned with a
wreath of laurels set in a massive gold
presented by the orchestra. The
enthusiasm of the audience exceeded all
ounds. y
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

THE Houston Observer states that
the engineer to locate the Houston
and Great Northern railroad has ar
rived, and has proceeded to make a
reconnaissance of the line, and that
money has been secured, and fifty
miles of the road will be Immediately
put under contract. DIR. Young, the
president, reports his arrangements
completed in the North, and two sets
of engineers are at work. Six millions
of stock have been taken in New
York by seven men, and five per
cent. paid in. 1t is expected 70 COM
plete sixty miles before Christmas. A
contractor had arrived. and a locomo-
tive with platform cars was on the
way.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14
Steamboat Bar for Reps or Sale,

GEALED PROPOSALS VIII be received mn
- til April 18th Dext, o. the ofire ~ ~
Pany. No. 8 Madison street, stanton PICeE
Memphis, Tenn, for tie Rent or Purcbase ~
bne 6aF on the new and elegant s~ide-wheef
passenger packet, now being buut at Cincin-
nal, Onlo, and 70 be completed between ~
10Th or May and lt of June. She EfI - or
nunoreo and ninety feet long, with sfefa-
rooms for ninety passengers, and viii bs erSf-
elAss IN al neT appointments, and, as soon
~ ~ nnlsAs1s vii pc put In the Me.nphfs sucs
Mnlse HlYer Mail Line, Proposals are -
Nlted LOT the rent % the bar for twelve
Honlhs, 70 date nom the time size Ieaves
Clne1nnatl on her nTzt trip, and also for m
kafensse oi the bar during the existence Or
nave he party renting or purchasing to
Fss1 balHnege Of employing two bar
keepefs- Payments for either rent or our-
chase 20 De made as follows; One-fourthb bari
"a cash, and balance In three equal psy mepfS
ooso4 and " days, with approved security
lOI oeisrfsd payments. The right to reject
any anu all bids Is reserved.
John D.. ADAMS, President
Memphis, Tenn, March a. IS7n rnbaq
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

IN giving his testimony before the
Reconstruction Committee, Judge
Lea stated quite ~delicately his excuse
for going so far as to distinguish
among cOlOrs, and say, nOtwithstand-
ing its t~ruthfulness, that ''nearly all
the murders, robberies and other
crimes that he had heard of in Ten
nessee were committed by the vaga-
bond negroes, who refused to work
and were driven to this mode ofSb-
tanning a living.n He confessed his
duty to observe the obligations
of the fifteenth amendment and
make no distinction as to caste
or color" But he was stubborn
enough to add:
1t is unexpectedly beyond question
however, that the great sources of muir
ders and outrages are the worthless lazy
blacks that hover around Nashville. 1t
Is a common reply given, when one of the
class is missed from Georgia, to hear,
gone to Tennessee;" and still more com
mon to hear from the lips OF respectable,
AANuStAAOus DldChs, "Atu inquiry Is maze
touching a doubtful character, "Oh. he
has got Tennessee priueiplesp
The description is as true and
graphic as a portrayal of Daguerre.
The Judge properly secuted the idea
of Ku-Klux existing, except among
the black apes and imitators, who,
like master like man." wear the
cast off garments. But his de-
malls could avail little, before men
whose business it was to manufacture
party capital, and must have the Ku-
At some rate or other, black
or white, e strengthen and save the
Fletcher & Co. head all the
we have now,and this, in the
Radical interest, the committee will
not cart much to hunt up.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14


THE Hon. George Ticknor Curtis
in his life of Daniel Webster Just
published, and for sale in this city by
agents of Messrs. Appleton 4 Co., New
York, the publishers, gives the
following as among the last words
ever uttered on the subject of poll
tics by that great American states
man. Mr.. Curtis was his most init
mate friend, and Mr.. Webster died
while the Pierce-Scott campaign was
going on.
He said that, as a public man, he was
bound to look forward to what must in
evitably happen, after the pending cleo
ton; that the Wing party would become
withdrawn into the north" and that
no party which did not extend throughout
the Union could safely and benefciallv
administer the Government of the United
States; that the time was near at hand
when there could be n political organi-
cation in b southern States OF any inn
p~ortance, excepting the Democratic party,
What the sagacious man saw in
the future, came to pass. The whig
party abolitionized in the nomination
of Scott over Webster, and with
drew into the north" And thereafter,
as the! same authority declares, the
only hope of escaping war and dis
union rested on the Democratic party.
Mr.. Curtis again says:
Calling ms to his beside by my Chris
tisn name, he said: 1.-THE Wing eandi-
date viii not be elected. You love your
country, and you think its welfare in
yolved in Wing success. This has beer
so; but let me warn you as you love
your country, to give no c~ountenance to
sectional, geographical party. The Wings,
after this election, will break up, and
upon the ruins of u party a sectional
party will arise. The stability of the
Union will hereafter depend upon the
Democracy" !
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

THERE has been some talk in Wash
ington Of overturning the Connecticut
election on the ground of a disregard
of the Fifteenth Amendment in not
allowing the negroes to vote. That
would be a bad piece Of work for the
Radical party. Instead ofbeing beaten
by a few hundreds, as now, they might
chance to go under by some thousands
on a new trial.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14

THE Nashville Banner urges that
for Supreme Judges men should be
selected on the grounds of experience,
merit and ability only. 1t afirms
that "the people are determined to
act in this important matter without
personal bias or prejudice, and to de-
mand for that high service the most
matured intellects, the ripest expe-
rience, the soundest Judgment