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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17

Ool. Meyers, OF Memphis, late Of
NFicfNgan and OF the Federal army,
yoes before the Reconstruction Com
mittee to-day, to testify as TO the
moral and political condition Of Ten
nessee. He will swear that reconstruc-
tion would be an unmixed calamity.
l.. j. ID.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17
Ladies UnderCIOthing.

Fine 6-Tueked Skirts for 81 60.
Fine Chemise for 81 90.
Fine Drawers (frilledl for 81 90.
Fine Night-dresses (frlIled) for 81.
Job Lot of Ladies' Henstltohsd Handker-
ehiefs-s for 81 90.
Job Lot OF Gents fine Linen Handkerehiefs =
8 for 81 90.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17
MAIN ST.

SOco dozen Hose and Half Hose at half the
cost of manufacture.
q pairs Ladies' fine White Cotton Hose for 81.
4 pairs Ladies' Extra Heavy Hose for 81 co.
spsirs Ladies' German Lisle Finish Hose
foFs %.
4 pairs Gents British Half-HOse for 81 90.
French COrsets, 5O-bone, for 81 CO-worth 81
yards White Pique for 81 %.
Plain, Checked and Striped Nainsooks, 3
yards for 81 %. or any number OF yards in
proportion.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17
Hihernian Mutual Relief Society.

Hlb6rnian MutuaI Keller SOCl6ty.
TsHELR&E & Viii % Be called .,IT. meeting Of the b.
April 18TH. at ~ o'elCck. A full attendance
Is requested, as business OF importance will
be brought before the meeting.
By order OF the President
aP.7 W. REQ. see'y,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17
THE EFFECT.

1t made ones blood freeze while
forced TO listen in silence to these IN
blushing falsehoOds. Think Of it, that
multitudes hear and read these I'M
founded statements and perversions
of facts and character, and must give
credence. I saw pretty girl shudder
and grow pale while Howe reclted IN
cidents of some stupendous crime, as
black ia all hideOus detormities as
that recently perpetrated in In
diana, as that which startled the
country when the village of Seymour
became another GolgOtha or as that
which makes New York city, at this
hour, the scene of trial involving
every crime that shocks the sensibil-
tiles of decency or violates the DEGREES
pf God
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

The new Banking bill was introduced IN
the House yesterday, and various amendments
were submitted, but no action was taken on
anv of them. The bill, as we have before ex-
planned, authorizes additional National Banks,
and a further expansion of the currency by
S95OOO,OOO, propositions which naturally excite
much opposition. The debate yesterday would
have been wholly without interest but for the
incidental recitation by Mr.. Morgan OF ONO
of the Democratic platform for 1872. That
important document as now predicted will not
declare the war for the Union failure as
that of 1854 did, nor proclaim Reputation
as in 1868, but will announce as the
great issue opposition to "bloated bondhold-
GERS" and National Banks, and favor to increased
issues of greenbacks. The Democrats were
still further enlightened and encouraged as to
party prospects by the gushing announcement
by Mr.. Samuel Cox of New-York that he means
TO "stand by the platform of the Democracy
Gin 1872" We have no doubt of it, Mr..
Samuel Cox could always be trusted to stand
by any conceivable platform the masters of the
Democracy chose to make for him-always,
except when he ate all his former words, seek
ing to persuade Republican Senate to con-
firm Andrew JohnsOn's nomination OF him for
foreign mission
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

| THE SENATE AND THE TAX 1INhERlNG.
| We have expressed, with some earnestness,
| our qualification at the passage III the House
| of the amendments to the Tariff Our readers
already know that we cannot regard in the
same light the new Tax bill. With the main
features of the one the country will be salts
fed. The other is, in some respects, curiously
and perversely unjust.
The people now look earnestly to the Sen
ate for protection from this incOngruous and
oppressive Internal Revenue Tax bill. Their APP
peal to the House, although made with an earnest
ness that should have commanded respect, seems
tohave hadno other effect than that of furnishing
an excuse for the delivery of a number of
illogical Congressional speeches. With such
reply they cannot be satisfied. Naturally
enough they question the craftsmanship, as
well as the logic, of the Congressman who
could give no better reasons for voting to re-
tain the Income Tax than "because none of
"theirconstituents paid any ;'and they consider
it shamefully inconsistent in those other men,
bers who, while supporting the same measure
because it was not tax upon the poor"
voted to put a stamp tax of one hundred per
cent upon matches. They are not to be de-
ceived by the sOphistry of men who thus
strain at a gnat and, without grimace, swal-
low camel.
This bill forces an income tax from the clerk
whose $4,000 salary is known, while it opens
many doors of escape to his employer whose
100000 income is not so easily reached. 1t
Furnishes him who dares to own the roof over
the heads of his family by not allowing him
to deduct from his taxable income the interest
annually paid on any mortgage which he may
have thereon, while it allows premium, in
the shape of deduction of $780, to his neigh
Dor who unlike himself, prefers paying an ex-
travagant rent. 1t recognizes gambling hells
and lottery swindlers by imposing upon them
a tax which can never be collected Although
pronounced by its advocates to be measure
that discriminates against the rich in favor
of the poor, the principal taxes which it re-
moves are the tax upon railroad companies,
gas companies, upon rich legacies and success
siOns to real estate, upon such Injuries as gold
and silver plate, carriages gold watches, and
private billiard tables. Under these circum
stances, should the Senate decide to join with
the House in the passage of the bill, its men,
bers must be prepared to give better reasons
for so doing than those which have hitherto
been advanced.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

The debate in the Spanish Parliament on
the selection of King ought to have a good
effect. 1t will in the end inform and influence
public opinion, and establish more distinctly
the differences in party politics, which have
become somewhat confused. 1t was begun on
Monday, and one result is already attained.
There is to be no restoration of any Bourbon,
however far removed from the obnoxious
family lately expelled. The success of the
revolution year ago would seem to have
established this; but in the complications
which followed the failure to decide at once
upon a republican government the hopes OF
the Bourbons revived The debate of yester-
day will dispel them again,-even those OF the
persistent MOntpensier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

If railroad company wants the right OF way
through the Usage Reservation in Kansas let IL
buy it. 1t is manifestly unjust to require these
Indians, peaceful and semi-civilized tribe, to
leave their lands, held under treaty with the
United States, for the benefit of any corpora
ton or Of settlers. The effort should be to
run railroads through their lands, and build
towns and create farms on all sides of their
reservations, thus surrounding them with civ
ilizing sights and influences. The result of
the experiments in this State, and the Choc-
Jaws and Chcrokees in the Indian Territory,
and with the 0mahas and other tribes in Ne
braska, fully justify this policy. 1t is because
we believe that the present Indian policy VIII
finally result in the transformation of the In
dian Reservations from hunting grounds where
game is scarce to farms and gardens where
corn and potatoes are plentiful that we are
most earnest in its support. "The Indian res
"eryation system is failure" as Senator Nor
ton yesterday argued, only because it has
heretofore been the policy to transfer the In
dams who have enriched a reservation, on de-
mand of settlers who cOvet it, to other regions
that are comparative deserts and remote from
civilization,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08
SOUTHERN LI1ERAIURE.

Can anybody tell us what is The POesque W
Of Poe, per Sc, most of the old habitues of
newspaper offices in New-York have very
distinct remembrance as an exceedingly seedy,
Unconditional individual, who wrote, when
sober, some genuine poetry, and when drunk a
great deal of labored trash. The few real
poems are there to speak for themselves; I'M
healthy and powerful as some poisonous
growth, yet giving evidence of unique,
absolute genius, both tempting and impossible
for mere talent to counterfeit Lately, how
ever he has gone up among the gods
of the South. Every new aspirant
for literary honors, below Mason and
DixOn's line, is now approved or con-
demned as Poesque or on-Poesque. The new
adjective troubles u.s. If to be Poesque means
that these people are out of money, and out at
elbows, trying TO make their daily bread or
morning bitters by scribbling verses or SLAM
ders upon men who befriended them, the case
is lamentable enough but if it means that the
mob of gentlemen and ladies who write with
such alarming ease in the South all design to
draw their inspiration from the scoriac rivers
"that roll their sulphurous currents down
"Yaanek," the state of affairs is appalling and
and Byronic epidemics in our fathers days
were disastrous but what are we to do if the
Southern schoolgirls and boys, instead of 60
into well-conducted Offices or shops, perma-
nently abandon themselves to "the mad pride
"of intellectually or to wandering down
ghoul-haunted woodlands with Psyche their
souli
Such catastrophe really seems imminent.
crop of nOvelists, poets, and essayists has
sprung up in the South since the war thick as
mushrooms after q rain. There is, too, con-
slant boastful attempt to parade and thrust
them en- mdSse upon our notice. The latest
compilation contains two hundred and forty
writers, all living, and with the great majority
of them Poe's Poems seem actually to have
constituted the sole literature with which they
were acquainted. The compilation is worth
attention, as it gives very fairly an insight
into the present intellectual condition of the
South as developed in literature. The editor
INDUCES, from preface to fms, in a perpetual
cackle of delight. He marshals his host. from
Mrs. SouthwOrth to the calow fedgling who
has chirped feebly once or twice in the county
newspaper, as the ImmOrtals at whose coming
the ancient masters, Greek az well as English,
will hasten to yield their loDg-held thrones.
When we know that this Mrs. Southworth and
the author of St. Elmo Gas the "De Stael of
"America') lead this troop we can have very
fair conception of their rank and quality.
There is something pitiable to us in all this.
We cannot laugh at the proud display of
"keen satires written by young ladies as
" graduating odes." at the wild confusion of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

"scintillating gleams-zcphyrs freighteu WIN
"perfume - horror glares magnolia Diooins-
"the tragedies about Greek maidens, ocandi-
"navian gods, or Aztec prophets" that rush
pell-mell out of the brains of this people wheh
the first outlet of pen and ink is gwen them.
If now and then glimpse of plain natural
feeling appears, the editor hastens to apollo
pize for the LONELINESS, and turns us to some
author "intensely Southern" by which ne
means. he tells us, "abOunding in uncon-
"trolled emotion, clothed in tropical drapery."
What can be done with these peOplef Is IL
worth while to sit down and reason with them
to tell them that vague gaspings for thought,
without definite thought in the brain, and
the utterance instead of a weak dribble OF
f]amboyant adjectives, is not hteraturef Can
they understand that "never to have spent
"more than two hours in writing the longest
"etfort of his musen does not "speak volumes
"for the genius of Mr.. Flash" but accounts
for the illusions so worthy of his name. Are
Bombast and Gush ineradicable in their ma
ture7 When, in the language of one OF them
selves. "the amber-hued Falernian OF Truth
"and the aromatic Tokay of Passion are set
before them,r must they always choose the
TOkayq
We chose to be more hopeful about our
Southern brethren, and to reject this DOCK,
and in fact any recent offering they have made
to literature, as fair sign of their intellectual
status. Surely the experience OF the last ten
years has taught them sterner and nObler les
sons than this mawkish sentimentality. Dur
ing the war their actions proved them to be
brave men and resolute, long -enduring women.
"They learned in suffering" says our editor,
"what they here teach in song" Suffering
such as theirs ordinarily teaches very little
song, but large amount of sound common
sense and however much their literature may
belle them, we believe they learned the lesson.
1T was Ares who led them to Athena" says
their eulogist, explaining the sudden appear
ance of Southern writers after the war. Heaven
forbid that the dragons teeth should yield
another such crop! But the truth is, we be-
leve that the books which have inundated us
are no exposition of Southern thought or feel
ing but so many attempts to make money.
The first mode of money-making to which an
educated person turns when thrown on his
own resources is almost invariably authorship.
They would shrink from attempting to make
a table or chair, yet they go to work boldly
at novel, essay, or poem, without materials,
tools, or knowledge of even the rudiments OF
art. Our Southern friends, we trust, as more
ways of earning livelihood open to them,
will see their mistake; and then, when time
has made real their new and broader views OF
life, we may hope for literature from them
that will be as genuine and strong an ex-
ponent of their condition as these crude efforts
are frothy and worthless.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

The minority report on the Cuban question
says of the Cuban exiles in the United States:
" If these persons have the passionate desire
for Cuban Independence which they pretend
Z" to have, their presence on Cuban soil with
arms in their hands, aiding Cespedes, would
"be pore encouraging, IA well as more seemly,
Z" than their present course" If they could
join the insurgents with arms in their hands,
we dare say many of them would be very glad
to; but there are no arms for them, and the
Spanish gunboats built in New-York, are
pretty careful to see that they don't get any.
Judge Orth, We suppose, would not send a
regiment of exiles TO Cuba, dressed in full
evening costume with white gloves. The
shame of our neutrality has been that it arms
one party and disarms the other
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

In laying on the table the bill regulating
payments to contestants in election cases, the
House has invited claims of q kind of which
we have already had something too much
The present practice of paying the defeated
contestants for their time, trouble, and ex-
pense will simply elevate the business into
profession which, under the operations of the
new law enforcing the XVIII Amendment,
every pettifogging politician who can secure a
nomination may be expected to engage in.
There ought to be no such encouragement as
this held out to such characters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

On the 18th inst, at the City Hail. the Com
missioners of the Sinking Fund will sell to the
highest bidder Preserving the right to reject
any bid they may deem not for the interest of
the city, the right to build and operate the
Northumberland -ffth-st. Railroad The
line runs across the city on the street named,
and also through e-hundred-and- thirtieth-
st., and up the Tenth-ave. to its northern ter
minus. The people have been trying
for many years to have the city railway
franchises disposed of in this manner,
in the expectation that share of the
profits of such roads might come into the City
Treasury. This is the first opportunity; but
the matter cannot be fairly tested under the
latitude given to reject bids that the selling
officers may choose to say are not for public
interest. That clause gives them power to put
the road into the hands of their favorites, and
we presume the result of the sale will show
that such favOritism will rule the work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

The minority of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs apparently dissent from the
proposal to recognize the belligerency of the
Cubans only because they believe that the in
surgents can be more efiectually aided in an
other way. Judge Orth proposes that instead
of resolution of recognition we should pass
law to prevent the fitting out in our ports of
ships to be used against cOlOnists claiming in
dependence-in other words, that we should
cease to give Spain the help we withhold from
Cuba. AS Gen. Banks has declared that the
report surreptitiously published the other day
as that of the majority does not fairly repre-
sent their present views, it will be wise to
defer discussion of the rival plans until we
know exactly what the majority plan is. We
may add that the minority report now pub
lished was apparently, like the other, drawn
up some time ago. and will perhaps be mate
rally modified before it is presented. In the
mean time it cannot have escaped the notice
of the public that neither party approves the
policy of the Administration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08

Our Connecticut neighbors have been for the
past few weeks engaged in controversy on
the question of a permanent State capital.
From time immemoral she has had two heads
Hartford and New IIaven-and they are now
at loggerheads. Each desires the decapitatiOn
of the other. Hartford is little ahead in
belligerency; but though having a majority
in the Legislature, it was unable to carry its
bill for want of the requisite twO-thirds, and
the matter has dropped for the present session,
to be resumed at the next. Meanwhile, the
papers of the two cities are enliven-
ing their columns with charges countercharges,
diatribes and squibs, with a view to mutual
demolition. Upon one point only are both
sides agreed, and that is their willingness to
leave the question to the people Either party
demonstrates to its own satisfaction that the
popular verdict will be for the unimpeachable
truth of its own views, and challenges the
other to "cOme ON To the unbiased out
slider it naturally occurs that herein is cOnsid-
cradle waste of printers ink. Why not stop
quarreling and go to vOting9
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08
THE ROUHdNJdN STORY.

The persons responsible for spreading the
outrageously exaggerated reports OF the Rou-
manian disturbances are not successful IN their
attempts at explanation. They refer to the
Israelite Alliance of Paris as their authority.
That society seems to have published state
mcnt that the Jews of Roumania had been
"driven out of their homes (erpuiS<s), pillaged,
"horriby maltreated, many wounded, perhaps
"dead" Out of this comparatively moderate
story dispatch was manufactured, represent
ing that the Christians rose on precon-
certed signal, and "massacred in cold blood"
every Jew they could find. thousands
"of men, women, and children were
butchered." "Fleeing Israelites were pur-
" sued through the town by an armed mob and
murdered wherever caught" The fury OF
"the populace, infamed with religious bigotry,
"only exhausted itself for want of victims"
1t will be seen that the original story contains
none of these horrible details, and does not
state that euen single person wds killed! Yet
even it is story which bears intrinsic evidence
of being written in that excitement of mind
which al ways results in exaggeration, and we
may safely assume that the wrongs it relates
are over rather than under the truth.
And Tor THIS statement as Originally puDilSncu
in Paris we are glad to say the authority Is
unsatisfactory. The 1sraelite Alliance has re-
peatedly been called to account in European
journals for its misrepresentation touching the
condition of the Jews in Roumania, and in its
zeal for the welfare of its people it was led, a
little while ago, into spreading reports of a
persecution which proved to be unfounded
We are confident that it has been deceived
again. 1t is incredible that an event of the
magnitude which has been described should
happen in civilized European country and yet
be unknown to all the world except private
association in Paris. The excitement caused
among the Jewish community in the United
States by the publication of the story is of
tsourse perfectly natural. We sympathize with
their feelings, and honor the charitable and
brotherly spirit in which they have made such
exertions to relieve the supposed distress. But
they are not well versed in the mystery OF
making news out of nothing, and the fact that
any considerable number of them believe the
dispatch is really no confirmation of it. SO far
there is every reason to believe it false; the
very testimony cited in support of it by its
original dissemnators is testimony against it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08
Aesu'3]ork Daily Gribm1te,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE s, 1870.

The American Bishops in Rome becoming disguised
with the advocates Of the Infalibility dogma - An
exciting debate has taken place in the Cortes the
throne question. Another political plot has been
discovered in Italy. - Smallpox is abating in Paris.
$50 The prospects favorable for a full cotton crop
in India $3.50 Fenian raid was threatened on Cana
dian camp sault ste. Marie Eel will not oppose the
Red River expedition.
In the Senate, yesterday, the Indian Appropriation bill
was considered, but without result. In the House,
bill introduced providing for the care of persons
declared insane by L. S. Courts The bill granting
bill increasing banking facilities considered Mr. Gar
field speaking at length in its favor.
grand Council was held with the Indian delegations
in Washington when Red Cloud made a speech. ==
The Democrats have elected their state ticket in Oregon
but the Republicans claim majority in the Legislature,
thus securing the u. S. Senator === man in Bat b.
more Is charged with bigamy by his children. The
NatOnn Photographers' Association is in session in
Cleveland. == Ex-Gov. Seymour viii deliver ad-
dress at the of the Cornell University
June 80
The cornerstone Of the new Masonic Temple will be
laid to-day The Grand Lodge of the State of NewYork
was in session yesterday. 60 The New-YOrk Baptist
Association has celebrated its 10th anniversary.
The COrOners investigation into the shooting of Pat
rick Herman by Patrolman Burke has not been
concluded === Among the nominees for members
OF the Board OF Education OF Jersey City are some who
cannot write. == new railroad is to be butin New
Jersey. In the trial of Dr. Carey for manslaughter
In Jersey City the verdict "no guilty" James
Egan killed near Union Hill, n. j., yesterday.
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