Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-23


o = Memphis is a cheerful place. To those
weary Of LIES pilgrimage, and DESTROYS OF
stunning on this mortal coil, but b cannot
ike IN 70 ne stsetf1e nlace sDd swallow
cold pizen, cut their weasands. drown hOot
or hang themselves. or otherwise diyest
themselves Of life, We recommend a trip 10
Memphis. There, in fifteen minute after
their arrival, they may, without the least eN-
pense 10 themselves or the slightest trouble
whatever, accomplish the object IN view.
throwing the diEreputable business upOn en-
tire strangers, for whom they have not the
least regard. All you need Is. to use Greeley S
favOrite epithet, hurting II at The first man
you meet You lie, you villain, o liei'
Unless the party happens 10 be there on The
same GRAND as yOHnself, there will be a COro-
neris inquest shortly after you give utterance
10 the above sentiment your body doing duty
a. corpse. ~By-and-bye The rush viii be SO
great to Memphis Of the Gelo &c Sc inclined,
that It viii be regarded as suicide 10 go there,
and the only advantage about II will be the
doing Of the disagreeable work by outsiders,
whom you care not for. We shall read: John
brown left for Memphis esrly this morning.
No cause assigned for tne rash deed. He has
threatened, fOrsOme time to 60 TO Memphis,
expressing himself as being tired of life
The above is taken from the New York
Sunday MercGyy as q sample of the com-
ments Of the press upon the crime and
criminal acts OF the lswless residing in or
near the city Of Memphis. Written as il
is in a vein OF humOr it Is none the
less injurious to our interests and
calculated to increase the bad name
which, TO shield their own in
fanny, the press of many Of the large
cities Of the Union seek TO fatten upon
US. Bad as we are in Memphis land God
knows we are bad enough) we cannot yet
compare in lswlessness, violence OF beas-
tisI brutality with New York, ST. Louis,
Chicago or Louisville. Only a day or two
since We published the facts Of a brutal
murder in New York, perPetrated with a
shovel in the hands of one OF a
class who know nothing Of con-
troll and never acknowledge restraint
save as the law by force imposes it. Yes
terday we published the particulars of
the brutal hstieuf scene in which Max
Msrstzek and tbs notorious Jim FISK
were prinoipals-a scene which could not
be matched anywhere else than in New
York. ARGUE and debauchee, surrounded
by actresses of little better character, on
the one side, and an opera manager with
out friends, on the other. The insolsnee
of money in the hands of a high living
rowdy, pitted against an unsssuming
opera manager, who has always hereto
fore borne in New York a good character
But even this scsndslous scene, In which
the MISUNDERSTANDING actresses of the
Opera BOufe played the part of quiet
lOOkers-on, even this was surpassed by
the conduct Of q "creBd" of brutal
rufisns who visited East New
York on Wednesday, accompanied by
twenty or more young girls, with whom
they became inebriated, and INDUCING in
not took possession Of the town from
which they were ultimately only driven
at the point of the bsyonets OF the 18th
regiment Of New York militia. Here is
enoughiin two days to occupy for months
Inc attention Of the moral editors Of the
New York press, who are 50 busy with the
iawlsssness Of our city. But these scenes
brutal, unlicensed blsckguardism are
confined to New York. They char
sSteriEe al the large cities Of the north