Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-24

THE resurrection business has COM
menced in Memphis in good earnest.
In the old Medical College of our city,
the faculty used to have a dissecting
room where unfortunate corpses were
chopped into mince-meat, for the pur-
pose of learning the young students
in search Of anatomical knowledge
where to find the vertabra, the carotid
artery, the cutaneous nerves, and the
epigastric region. This dismal ediieel
has given place to other vOcations 4
but if we have now no disSectinS
rooms in Memphis, we can bOas
of a resurrection room recentlI
established on South Court street,
where they resuscitate and rejuvenatsl
defunct parties, and galvanize stiff
starchy and Ossifed old politicians intdn
the iabby Iimberness of well lubril
Gated supple jacks. A few days sincey
a half dozen suffering and disconsolstes
martyrs resolved to invade the sane
tity Of the graveyard, and dig up the
old Wing party. Tickets were issued
to the mOurners to attend at John
Gaston's, where a resurrection room
had been engaged, armed cap-d pie
with bandanna5 and pick-axes. AT
the appointed hour the skeletons were
in motion. They gathered around
the sacred spOtas the sick and manned
used to hObble and crawl near the
pool Of Sloan. A couple OF indie
pendents made a reconnaissance in
force around the premises; lowered
about the door and watched it with
that circumspection with which burg
lars inspect a Dol they intend to
plumber; and when they Supposed no
eye was upon them, they darted up
the steps Ike popcorn from
a not skillet. We will recount what
occurred up stairs as rapidly as Tears
and sObs and grOans will permit.
Our valued personal friend, 7. S.
Ayres, was master of ceremonies,
chief fugleman. As he rehearsed his
tale of woe and magniied his hard
ships, he 50 narrowed up the souls off
his sympathising friends that mira I
Giles were performed, such as stirred /
the stones TO mutiny. Argillacious
Aston was there, too, swollen with
grief and ~greenbacks, like a distended
bladder. The naughty and remerse-
less Democracy had just turned Al
stOn out of an Office which had madek
his empty pockets plethOrie with
ready cash, gave him lands and cattle I
upon a thousand hills, and enabled /
him to ride upon a velocipede, and in
gigs, chariots and phetOns, behind
spanking bays. 1t was natural that
he should sit up at night, with his !
grievances, paint them black, wrap !
them in rags, pOultice them with !
plast0rs, stipple them with tears, and
them, lean and lousy, into theE
bosom of his friends in misfortune. 2
An ~unluckY)old lady, long ago, con-
bemoaned the decay of her
fortunes, and as constantly re-
10 it as having been
brought about by losses incurred
in the indigo trade. Now that Ais
ton has been wickedly and malicious
ly deprived of his hash money in
stead of worrying along in genteel
shabbiness and %Obscurity, he intends, }
it seems, to thrust his grievances IN
der the ose of people who do not
desire to be bothered with them.
Aston and Ayres were not the only
two disappointed O-fiee-seekers pres
emit. There was X-Chancellor Will
liam NJ. Smith too. He wore around
neck beads made Of big sponges,
not for the purpose Of counting his
prayers, but to catch the lachrymose
as it came from his eyes, in
a stream as large as that which
from the rock that Moses
smOte with his magic rod. The pitt
less logic OF events had curdled the
Of the defunct Chancellor.
Radicalism had played out, and
Of course Smith had no use
for it; but hating Democracy
with an intensity which is
most heartily reciprOcated, he too
was for galvanizing the old Wing
A Colorado miner wrote back
10 his sweetheart in the States the con-
rise, but hopeful love letter, ''Seyen
years is rather long to kOrt a gal, but
lie have you yit, Gate" Smith has
the same sort of devotion 10 the Wing
except he viii cOquette with the
Radical party when there are Offices
% WOO and win. Prominent in this
meeting Of faithful Peters unto the
Growing of the cock, was seen the
Deetling brow of DIR. A. Il. Shaw.
Like all ofice-seekers and eX-Office-
holders, he hates Democracy, and now
hat Radicalism is powerless in Ten
nessee, of course he was present 70