Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-06

stamping OF feet by some of the "gud-
geons" of the parquette, led her to look
down."
Information is at hand of a gigantic
carpet-bag swindle by the Legislature Of
Florida, which had enacted a law, signed
last Monday by the Governor, giving to
certain railroad companies in that State
eight million dollars of gold-bearing
State bonds, which are equivalent to ten
million dollars in currency; and, what is
singular, a large proportion are to be is
sued to three companies before a dollar is
expended on any road, and the State hav-
ing no security beyond the names of the
officers of the companies. The total tax
able property Of the State under the last
assessment was S25, 900, 900, with a popu-
lation of only I4O, 900, and under carpet
bag rule it has acquired a State debt OF
sll, 900, 1000. This is a grand swindle by
genuine carpet-baggers. The dispatch
says that every Democrat in the Legisla-
ture voted against it.
The editor of the Planters Banner,
Col. bennett, writing to his paper from
New Orleans, among other things says /:
A Democratic member Of the Legisla-
ture, one of the few honest men of that
body, stated 70 me a few days. since that
they find WickIiffe not as deeply .impli-
Gated in the wrongs charged against him
by Yarmouth as they had supposed. He
saws Wicklide evidently has not saved
more than ten or fifteen thousand dollars
ost Of the Office, and that Yarmouth
pushes this crusade against Wicklife in
order TO divert public attention from his
own foul record. Yarmouth has evident
" made a princely fortune from his
Office. They think that his attack on
Wicklife is like his attack on the Demo-
Gratis before the Citizens Communicable
cry of stop thief raised by the biggest
thief in the crowd"
The Nashville Union and AHaeTieGH, of
Friday, says: " Yesterday afternoon Gen.
Arson Stsger, General Superintendent of
the Grand Western Division of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company; Mr.. w.
F. Storey, editor of the Chicago Times;
Mr.. Geo. L. Dunlop, Superintendent OF
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad;
Mrs. Hill, and Nessrs. J. A. Ellis and
wife; Jos. o. Rutter, +. S. Winslow, and
J.. n. McGregor, prominent citizens Of
Chicago, and Mr.. J. Van Horn, Of Louis
vile, Superintendent of the Western
Union Telegraph Company for the South
ern States, arrived at the Maxwell House
on a pleasure tour through the South.
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Mobile and New Orleans by rail. From
New Orleans they viii go to Galveston by
the Gulf. and on their return to New Or
leans they viii proceed to Chicago via
Memphis" I
A Havana letter gives details of the
arrest and execution by the Spaniards of
an alleged Cuban Junta at Santiago. The
arrests numbered forty to fifty, and, as
already published, eighteen have been ex-
ecuted, including two Americans. The
executed gentlemen, when arraigned be-
fore the military commission that con-
demned them, admitted the existence of
the association to which they belonged,
but denied its being a political Junta, but
only a Masonic Lodge; that they met to-
gether as Masons for Masonic purposes,
and not as politicians for political pur-
poses. This defense appears to have an
gered instead of satisfying the Spaniards.
a Catalonian priest, who has been noted
for the ultraism of his loyalty and violent
denunciations of the Cubans, immedi-
ately pronounced Freemasons no better
than the insurgents; that the rising of
Yara was plotted and planned in a Ma
sonic Lodge; that Cespedes is a Mason;
that Whenever Masons congregate their
Spanish loyalty dies.
Should the negotiations now going on
between the Atlantic, Mutual, Athletic
and Red Stocking Base Ball Clubs, Of New
York, looking to the holding in Brooklyn
Of a grand tournament which shall de-
eide the question of the championship,
succeed, it will surpass in general inter
est all single contests which have hither-
to taken place. The proposition, as it
stands, is, that the Athletics, Of Philadel-
phia, and the Red Stockings, of Cincin-
natl, shall visit New York, and single en-
gagements viii take place as follows f:
Beginning on Monday, the Athletics viii
play against the Red Stockings; on Tues
day, the Mutual and Athletics on We'd
ndsdsy, the Red Stockings and Mutual
on Thursday, the Atlantics and Athletics;
on Friday, the Red Stockings and Ath-
on Saturday, the Mutual and At
The Club winning the greatest
number of games viii take the title.