Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-11
POLITICAL.

Butler wants to be the next Governo
Of Massachusetts.
The Illinois Constitutional Convention
cost the State $225, O00.
Ex-President johnson declares he viii
run for Congress anyhow.
The Vermont State Republican Con.
v~entiOn is to be held June Y.
Archibald Hisle, a colored man. is 8
candidate for Sheriff of Madison county
Kentucky.
Judge Brinkerhof, of Ohio, declines a
reelection to the bench of the Supreme
Court. Cause, poor pay.
General Pratt, the "Great American
Traveller" says that American politics is
helI's grist mill to grind up devils in.
Senator Cain, colored, of South Caro-
lima, says that thieves and robbers are de-
stroying the Republican party in that
State.
Governor Chamberlain, of Maine, posi-
lively declines a denomination, and his
friends are recommending himfor United
States Senator.
Letters to Senators from Kentucky say
that if a general amnesty act is passed
this session, John @. Breekinridge will
certainly succeed Garrett Davis in the
Senate in 1873.
{ 1t is said that Whittemore's overwhelm-
ing success in South Carolina was attrib-
utable, in a great measure, to the fact
that Mrs. W. campaigned tor him by kiss
ing the negro women promiscuously.
One of the best speeches made in either
House of Congress this session was made
the other day by Senator Ramsey, of Min
nesOta. He said: LET US quit talking
and commence voting" Only this and
nothing more.
The Radical Cincinnati Commercial. in
commenting upon the New York cleo
ton, Jays: With heavy taxes, protective
tariffs, land-grabbing legislation, and
Summers social equality bill, what other
results are Republicans to expect?
The new Constitution of Illinois pro-
vides that " Every person who obtained
a certificate of naturalization before jan
uary l, 1870, shall be entitled to vote;p
N as the naturalization laws admit of
the naturalization of women, there are
those who contend that such women can
vote under this clause.
"Dixon, - the capable and Trustworthy
correspondent at Washington of the Bos-
Advertiser, gives in a recent letter
interesting facts and statistics abOut
land grants to railroad companies. The
was begun in 1850, when about two
and a half acres were given to the
Illinois central. OluCo budb tlulo We ndN9 /
given to canals 1,450,O 600 acres, to wagon
3,7S2,2 l3 acres, and to railroads lS2,-
lOs. 5SI acres. The public domain remain
ing undisposed of, we are told by the same
correspondent, amounts to more than
200, 900, 600 acres
The New York Sun (Radical) confssses
The organization of picked men into ex-
slusively colored companies of militia in
Carolina is a measure which is evil
lently fraught with a premeditated desire
10 produce a serious conflict between the
and blacks, because DR.. Scott, of
ohio. the Governor of South Carolina, has
laid hat a Northern white man is not
unprotected by military force in the
state, when the contrary Is the fact; pro
the white traveller is not an incen-
liary who tells the negroes that they
must not respect their late masters, and
I these should interfere with them to
urn their houses. The Governor has
VIC companies of United States regulars
n Columbia, on the ground that the State
) not yet fully reconstructed. The truth
; that the Governor is very unworthy
ficisl, and is mlsgoyerningS South Car
lima.