Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-26

first route examined will be from Kansas
City, via Harrisonvine, Butler and Osceo-
la TO Springfield.
According to the returns of the New
Hampshire election, the House OF Repre-
sentatives of that State viii be composed
of 1913 Republicans, III Democrats, and Is
Labor Reformers, giving a majority of 90
to the Republicans.
The AdDeFtiSer says the planting COM
munity of Bastrop county, Texas, are
earnestly engaged in the coming crop.
The demand for the labor Of blacksmiths
and f~arm-laborers was never greater han
at the present time.
Forty years ago there was such a noise
made about a New Hampshire member of
Congress sending home q package of gar
denseeds under his frank that the offender
failed Of reelection. What a difference
between F" then and nowl"
Horatio Seymour says that Daniel
Webster ought to have adopted literature
rather than politics, as a profession. Had
he done so, Mr.. Seymour thinks be
would have ranked with Burke, and
would have eclipsed Macaulay.
The late Chief Surgeon of Gen. Stone
wall Jackson's command says that he did
not die from the gun-shOt wounds that he
had received. He says his death was the
result of pneumonia, and occurred eight
days after the wounds were received.
Recently Mr.. Cal. Jones ran away with
and married a daughter of Mr.. John Pow
ers, of Dyer county, Tennessee. On Mon
day last Mr.. Powers met bis son-in-law
and shot him with a rifle. Powers made
his escape. Jones, it is thought, will re-
cover.
Vermont radical Republican papers
mention, in connection with the next
G~overnorship of thai State, the Hon. J.
w. Stewart, of Middlebury; the Hon. G.
W. Hendee, Of M~orrisviIle; the present
Governor, and the Hon. Julius Converse,
of Woodstock.
The New Orleans Times of the sd inst.
says: 1.-THE criminal prosecution of Geo.
NJ. Wicklife, the impeached ex-State
Auditor, has been Withdrawn, Wicklife
having handed over to the State authori-
ties $4,000 in currency and the balance of
the missing coupons in coupons"
Governor Holden is only worse than
Senter in that ne wants martial law de-
clsred by the President throughout the
State of North Carolina so that military
commissions can dc. what courts ofjustice
could not-murder the citizens in cold
blood after the manner of Haynes, in Ar
kansas last winter.
The wife of a white man in Van Vert
county, Ohio, recently gave birth to twins
black as the ace Of spades. The Times
says that, she declares it's all right; that
her husband had been burning logs, and
was so black that he frightened her. but
he indignantly inquiries 4" where the wood
came from?" The Radicals of the vicinity
are greatly interested in the case.
Mr.. Geo. W. Blunt has ascertained the
different rates of sailors wages paid by
shipmasters of different nations. The
monthly payroll Of an American ship Of
500 tor is SSH so; that Of a British ship
Of the same dimensions, 1856 "a; of a Bre-
men ship, $348; a Hamburg shin, S5O2; an
Austrian, 1882; a Norwegian, S347; and
an Italian, including an allowance for
r~ations, 5000. Il
The musical library and collection Of
Otto jain, the deceased b~iographer ofAo-
Fart, is to be offered for sale in Germany,
as a whole, in order hat the valuable col
lection may not be separated. The cata-
logue includes three thousand numbers.
including autographs of Bach, Beethoven,
Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schumann,
etc, mostly written scores.
The Coarjer-JoHFnGE SAYS: "The Ku-
Klux Khan was a purely defensive organi-
cation. It numbered the oldest, best and
most peaceable men. Its spirit was judi
cisl, its acts were orderly, and its purpose
was self-preservatiOn. Through its brief
but benign influence order was restored.
legal address was granted, the official rob
bers and assassins dispersed, and society
settled into its normal state.7
The Fort Smith Herald Of the 10th inst.
announces the death, at his residence in
the Cherokee Nation, Of Mr.. Lewis Ross,
a prominent citizen OF that Nation, and
brother of the Great Chief. Also, the
death of General Mayors, an old resident
"a WV ADAAAAehg VIZ ~ ~ AAllt was rep /
resentative Of his county in the Arkansas
Legislature, Postmaster at Fort Smith.
and United States Indian Agent for the
New Mexico Indians, and for several
years published the T~hiry-ffh Parallel,
at Fort Smith.
Captain Slocomb, Of the schooner
Saladin, arrived at New York on Friday
last from Jacmel, makes the following
report: On the 18th inst, at 6 am, saw an
in the water bearing f. five miles
distant supposed to be a wreck; hauled
up, and al seven and a half a. m. came up
TO it; it appeared to be a specie of whale
apparently sixty feet long, with two forks
t6its tail about four feet long; it also had
feet or fms, like a sea turtle, ofa light
substance, and sat very light on the
water; twenty-four feet across its back,
was oval shaped; had ridges run
ming from its head TO its tail; each ridge
being two inches deep and four inches
apart; had white back and brown sides
md was going east about two knots; was j
zen in lat. 1904, Ion. 1901.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph very Justly
~truthfully says that the constant flow
II abuse, oboquy, insults and jeers upon
,x-President Davis from the Northern
,ress and politicians, and on the floor Of j
congress, is, under the circumstances. not
complimentary to American manhood. !
9 is never noble to strike where no resist )
nee is offered and no blow is returned. :
fir. Davis, ever since the extinction Of !
be Southern C~onfederscy, has sedulously '
ought obscurity. be has maintained so
uict, modest and i~nofFensiye a de-
leanor that not a hard saying .
gainst his most violent enemies s
nd traducers can be traced to =
Bnt the most unobtrusive privacy :
ills to shield him from insult, and the 8
Of the United States cannot well \
a negro from Kansas of dishonest ID
cord to a seat in that body from Missis- S
ppi, without an attack upon Mr.. Davis, %
nd thanking God for the exchange. The a
OF these Fluctuations in every aspect q
III not be questioned. There is no
oubt about it. 1t is unsurpassed bythat ~
I a Northern New Orleans correspond liz
II who cannot bear the sight Of Mr.. Da-
Is eating Strawberries, and makes the Oe
the occasion for discharge Of his gall. W