Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-12

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In France, NJ. OIliYier says there are
now 1900 Roman Catholic priests who
earn their livelihood by sweeping the
streets as cabmen. These are chiefly the
victims Of Episcopal despotism, the bish-
ops having the power to turn them Out of
their parishes.
The Montgomery Advertiser learns that
a destructive fire occurred at Camden,
Alabama, on Monday, the 18th ult. 1t
will be recouected that nearly every bust
ness house and a number of dwellings in
this pleasant courthouse town were de-
stroyed by a very disastrous fire about
one year ago.
An English magazine, the Saturday Re
Uielp, reads us a hOmily on the corruption
Of American judges: 1t says Few
things are full of uglier omens for the
future Of the United States han that
growing disrespect for the judicial body
which seems to be spreading itself
through the country"
Hon. William Window, Ex-Governor
Browns friend, late member Of Congress
from Minnesota, has been charged by an
exjudge of the Supreme Court with cor
ruption in Office in the purchase Of the
land of the Winnebago Indian ReserYa-
ton, and ~endeavoring to procure subsi-
dies from Congress for the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad.
The Board of Directors of the Nashville
Gaslight Company met Wednesday after
noon and reelected the old officers, viz:
G,-,,1 Ua+lf,z D-ssidaDt. 7 II KaD-
drick, Secretary; Thomas F. Kendrick,
Cashier; J. Hsgsrty, Inspector; George
II. Wells, Foreman of the Gasworks, and
James H. Kendrick, jr., Clerk Of the Gas
works.
Spahr, a river pilot, and a young stu
dent named Baldwin, shot and killed each
other on Wednesday night at the South
ern Hotel Stable, between Fourth and
Fifth streets, st. Louis. The former was
shot through the heart and the latter
through the head. An unfortunate wO-
man of the town was the cause of the ter
rible affair.
No tidings have been received yet Of
the missing steamer City OF Boston. The
steamer Beckfort, which left New York
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since been heard Of, but is supposed to
have been delayed and driven from her
course by head winds. The steamer
! Smidt, supposed to have been lost, has ar
rived in New York.
The Atlas Life Insurance Company of
st. Louis was recently sued for the recOv-
cry Of policy of $1,000 upon the life OF
one Michael FroIich, of Chicago. Al
though it was proven on oath that Fro
Itch had been dead three hours before his
last premium, long past due, was paid, the
jury of honest C~hieagoins returned a YER
diet against the company. Trial by jury
should play out in Chicago.
N. J.. Gibbons, a Fenian, in a letter to
the New York Sun, says, in answer to the
Pope's bull against Fenisnism: 1--WE do
not hold ourselves accountable to Popes,
Bishops or Priests for any temporal act,
but acknowledge their right and su-
premacy only in spiritual matters. Out
side ofthis they are no more to be obeyed
by US than any other man.
The Boston Post says that while Con-
gress has been discussing the pro-
priety "of taking of the letters
of military rule from the South, that sec
ton has been ind0striously preparing the
way for a return TO coin and sound pros
perity." What a moral for the political
economist; what a lesson for the states
man; what a Iebuke to the proscriptive
and oppressorl
The Springfield Mass Republican, pro-
nounces Fechter a better actor than
Booth, and more of a genius, notwith-
standing that be is fat, rOund-shOnldered,
and forty-fye; that be speaks English
with neither the English nor American
infection, but in a tone learned at the
Thester Francois; and that in a black suit
and a lOng-haired wig, he is almost a
comicsl copy of Henry Ward Beecher.
We learn from the Fort Gaines Mirror
that on the 18th ult., Mr.. Robert 7. Free
man, while oUt shooting birds, in at
tempting to cross a fence, with gun in
hand, accidentally discharged it, the con
tents entering the front part Of his neck,
producing a frightful wound and hemor
rhage. He was taken to the house of Col.
James Z. Brown, near by, where he lin
gered until the following Thursday, and
died.
The two negroes who murdered Mrs.
Barnett Rawlings, in Brunswick, Vir-
ginia, in January, were shot in their cells
in Lawrenceville, on Monday last, by a
party Of disguised men who broke open
the jail One Of the negroes has since
died, and the other is not likely to re-
cover. The murder will be remembered
as of peculiar atrocity, Mrs. Rawlings be-
ing shot down in her own chamber while
nursing her infant.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore G0zene says he has it on good
authority that if Mr.. Bradley is rejected
by the Senate for a seat on the Supreme
bench, and in the event of General Grant
being forced to give up the idea Of send
ing in the name of a Northern jurist, the
President will nominate Professor Langs-
ton, or Professor Vashon (both true
blues), and thus wind up the Radical
programme Of "equal rights under the
law"
The decrease in the ratio of beef cattle
to population in this country during the
last ten years is said to be twenty per
cent, the increase in population being
thirty-three per cent. In 1860, with a
population Of 3 l,4l7, 3Sl, we had q, q, 1857
neat cattle in the country; while now,
with a population Of more than 40, 900, 900,
according TO the report of the Department
Of Agriculture, we have only u, 633, O69,
showing a net decrease since 1850 Of more
than 100000 aniusals.
The Nashville Union and american
sums up our troubles thus tersely and
forcibly: "aThe financial burdens i'm
posed upon TENNESSEE are greatly sggra-
waited by the reckless and corrupt manner
in which Radicalism squandered our mo-
new and our bonds. We have, as the re-
suit Of four years of Radical rule, $l3, Co.,
900 Of State bonds in the hands of stock
gamblers, near half a million of coin Of
sacred School Fund" defGHIted, a
large amount of outstanding warrants,
over g, 900, 900 Of interest due and unpaid,
empty Treasury, and nocredit at home
or abroad"
In the Nashville Board of Aldermen on
Tuesday night a bill was introduced au-
tborizing the issuance of bonds TO the
mount Of $500, 600 for the purpose Of
funding the floating debt Of hat city. II
provides that the Mayor and Recorder
shall execute a deed Of trust to certain
parties conveying property Of the city
sufficient to secure the ultimate payment
Of the debt. The bonds are to be in de-
nomination from 500 to $1,000, 10 run
from one 10 thirty years. These bonds will