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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26
oUTHER RAILROADS.
What Congress Proposes to do with thost
of them that are Delinquent.
From the Nashville Banner of Tuesday

From the Nashville Banner of Tuesday. J
There are now pending at Wash
ingtOn two bills in regard to South
ern railroads. One in the House of
Representatives introduced to author
ize the War Department through the
Quartermaster- General to institute
summary proceedings to enforce the
collection of claims here against the
Nashville and Chattanooga, and Nash
vile and Northwestern the Nashville
and Decatur, and the East Tennessee
railroads. The other now before the
Senate of the United States, provid-
ing for a compromise favorable to the
roads in question. The first bill has
been discussed by able counsel before
the judiciary Committee, but so far
as we understand the matter from
those familiar with affairs at the seat
of Government, Congress appears to
be disposed to a considerable amount
of leniency to the delinquent roads.
On the other hand the Quartermas-
ter's Department is in favor of prompt
and summary proceedings against all
reads indebted to the Cow fnment.
Suits against the Nashville and Chat
ld1lOOkds tlO NdobNlAlC anu OCGdlu
and Nashville and Northwestern rail
roads are now pending before the
Federal Court of this city, which
meets in next October. We may re-
mark that the prospect is good for a
compromise of these claims with
out the roads n question
being materially interfered with,
The South is more dependent epOn
its railroads for the r~ecuperation of its
agricultural and trade interests than
upon anything else. Nor is the South
alone interested in their successful Op-
Grafton. 1t is through them that we
are enabled to add our contributions
to the general commerce of the cOun-
try. All portions of the country are
interested in preserving and main
tanning our railroad interest. If sud-
denly forced TO pay their indebtedness,
or, rather to attempt to pay it, they
would be crippled, if not entirely
broken down. All our channels of
trade would be disorganized and the
country would lose an immense deal
more by the stagnation that
would ensue than it could possibly
gain by the enforced payment OF a
few paltry debts-for paltry they are
compared with the great interests
involved.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26

OUR kilograms this morning are of
the most thrilling and startling char
acter. Our information at this writ
ing is not such as to justify US forming
an opinion as to the result OF this last
movement. But one thing is certain,
the Southern people and the Demo-
cratic party of the Union most ardent
Iy sympathize with the Fenians, and
trust that this is the beginning Of the
end-the end of Irish subjugatiOn and
British oppression. For eve hun
dred years of famine, fire and
sword, the children of Ireland have
been tested to an intensity of per-
secutiOn unknown to the an
mails Of any other people. During
these long dark ages, every device
that human ingenuity could encom-
pass or that the most diabOlical spirit
entertain, has been brought to bear
upon the down-trOdden people Of Ire
land. Still the pure crimson ore Of
Irish fidelity and patriotism has not
only blazed with undimmed splen-
dor, but it has flashed and scin-
tillated before the world. The san
dial tree perfumes the ak that destroys
It's vitality; there are flowers that
never scent the air until they are
trampled in the dust, and Irish valOr
and the sublimity Of their grand souls
would not have become historic and
perpetuated in song and story, but for
their wrongs, and for their endurance.
Notwithstanding c~Onfiscation, exile
and death-notwithstandin that their
affairs, their literature and their flag
has been trampled in the dust, beneath
the iron heel of despotism, they are
still defiant; and it may be the move
ment which the telegraph sends forth
this morning tells Of the dawning Of
that happy day when the pent-up
vengeance Of centuries shall burst like
unlaired tigers upon their ancient and
implacable enemy. God is just and
He is surely with a people who have
for seven successive centuries battled
against tyranny and usurpation, and
preserved in tact their identity, their
traditions and their affairs. Acts of
infamy and oppression, like chickens,
will come home to roost. The news
this morning will send a thrill of joy
throughout every village and hamlet
in the United States. Firing upon
Fort Sumter was the death-kneII to
liberty in the South. May the thun-
der which is about to leap upon the
barren plains Of Canada overwhelm
those who have 50 long Knocked at its
approach and resultin Irish Liberation.
We fear the result. But our dispatches
this morning will peal into the listen
ing ears Of the prosecuted children Of
the Emerald Isle, that Ireland still
lives, and so do her wrongs.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26

THE pretended Democrat, who, to-
day votes for the indepen Radical
ticket rolls up a terrible account
against himself, which will politically
bankrupt him for the future. To an
honorable man who reveres his prin-
ciples, the decision of his party is sa-
cred. 1t is no less a point of honor
among men who love the principles
they profess, to abide the DEGREES OF
their conventions, than it is the
bounden duty of all good citizens to
bow to the judgments of the courts.
And the pseudo Democrat vino, to-
day, abandons his party and sells out
his principles, will most surely share
the fate of all traitors. 1t was in the
time of ROmulus that Tarpeia, the
daughter of the Governor of the Ro-
man citadel, agreed to betray the gar
riSOn. She became coVetOus of the
bracelets worn by the Sabine soldiers,
and demanded, as a reward, the Orna-
ments which they carried upon their
left arms. She opened the gates of the
fortress, and having gained possession
of it, the Sabines threw their shields
upon the traitoress and crushed her to
death. Down through all the subse-
.quent centuries the crime which has
been held in most general detestation
among men is treachery. Even those
who profit by the treason invariably
despise the traitor. He may pocket
his thirty pieces of silver, but he is
forever after abhorred. The Tarpeias
in our midst who propose to open the
gates Of our fortress to the Radicals
and their conspirators in public plum
der, will share Tarpeia's d~isgraceful
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26

DOES an election time furnish mel
a license to tell f~alsehoods? Is it tC
be regarded as a legalized s~aturnalia
of detraction and hatred and unchar'
itabIenessl Why, at this time, should
mems characters be made the target
for the envenomed shafts of malice,
and why should it be thought justif'
able at this time, Of all others, when
the truth should be told to the people
concerning those who ask their suf-
frage, to misstate facts? Hon. r. j.
Morgan has been the objective point
of the Radicals for the past three
days. They have been r~ansacking
his history, and finding no stain or
blot upon his character, they have re-
sorted to falsehood. Judge Morgan is
accused of having favored a property
qualification of five thousand dollars
before a man could hold the office of
Alderman or City Councilman. 1t is
useless for US to brand this accusation
as a calumny. In October last Judge
Morgan was City Attorney-aRd at
the request of Mayor Leftwich and
other prominent citizens, he drew up,
as an official officer, new charter,
containing the property qualification
clause. This he did as an attorney,
employed by the city and subject to
the order or instruction of the Mayor.
BE never Endorsed the Objectionable
clause, no more than the official organ
of the city didsOin publishing the new
charter. If Judge Morgan is to be
made to indorse the property qualiti-
cation simply because he drew the
charter under orders, then is the
Clerk who copied the charter equally
its advocate. We repeat, Judge Nor
gan did not indOrse the property quail
iheation contained in the new city
charter. He so stated at the
time, in a note addressed to
the editors of the AUdlanche.
But we can tell the Radicals that
they cannot damage Judge Morgan
by this falsehoOd which has been
trumped up and circulated in hand
bills, for his whole life is a triumph
ant answer to any attack upon his
name. He has lived in Memphis for
nineteen long years-much longer
than his enemies-and up to this time
no tongue spoke but in his praise.
This attempt to defeat Judge Morgan
by falsehood and traduction should
only make his friends cling the closer
to him. His name is the first upon the
ticket, and it should be the last to be
scratched. The proposition requiring
Aldermen and COuncilmen to own
property worth five thousand dollars
never originated with him. Henever
favored it; on the contrary he con-
demned it in October, as now. Vote
for r. ]. Morgan.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26

MEMPHIS may surely boast Of the
personal and professional worth and
attachments of one of the youngest
barristers of this city. Here he has
spent almost his whole life. His
habits have never been criticized; his
intelligence never questioned; his in
tegrity never doubted; his eminent
fitness for the place to which he
aspires is conceded on all hands. If
elected, he must deal with villains.
Crimes may be committed by men
having wealth, to be employed in or
ganizing %juries, in buying witnesses,
in employing vulgar bullies to intim-
idate courts, attorneys, witnesses and
jurors. OF all men, a prosecuting at
torney in this city, before such courts
as have heretofore cursed society,
should be most fearless, most incor-
ruptible. Luke E. Wright's physical
courage has been illustrated on many
a battle field. He was promoted,
when not more than fifteen years of
age, for an exhibition of extraordinary
GOODNESS and daring at Murfreesboro.
His conduct in fierce conflicts around
Atlanta was nc less honorable. He
came out of the wal invested with all
the virtues and corrupted by none of
the vices of a soldiers life. He is a
sober, studious, thoughtful gentleman,
never diverted by pleasures of social
life, or by attractions presented by a
political areer from paths of profess
sional toll. His habits, his native en-
dowments, his moral qualities, his
strong hereditary common sense, emf
nently fit him for the AttOrney-Gene-
ralship. As a simplequestion of good
taste his election becomes a necessity;
as one of public policy, the dearest
interests Of life, property and charac-
ter, impel every good citizen to sup
port him. He will prove in Office the
~staunchest guardian of public morals,
of order, of life and property, who
has ever invested the sanctions of the
criminal code with terror to evil doors.
Let thieves and murderers beware
of tickets to-day which bear the inn
print, LUKE E. WRIGHT. Let bur-
glars and pickpockets and murdererS
see that his name does not appear on
their ballots. Honest men and good
citizens who would reform multi
piled public abuses and make murder
hide its hideous front, will find In
Luke Z. Wright an agent for the
achievement of good and annihila-
ton of evil, as potent as was John F.
Sale when his fierce invectives
against crime and villainy resounded
in halls of justice-when there was
justice and honesty and truth in the
courts of the country.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26

THE Boston TrGUeUer states that a
member of the Railway COMMITTEES
Of the Legislature had asserted that
he had been offered $4,000 to sign the
majority bill in favor of the Boston,
Hartford and Erie railroad. He gives
the following account of the result:
went home the other night, and after
Harriet and ] had retired, says /, " bar
riet, which had You rather a me do,
bring home 10 YOU So coo for pin-money,
or an honest husband?" Says she,
- Thomas, an honest husband"
There seems to be a prevailing opin-
ion in that quarter that Harriet win
lose both the pin-mOney and the
honest husband. That is bad, but it
is the way the world wags in Massa-
chusetts.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26

LET US have, to-day, the old enseml-
bic Of the Democratic party the
march with the lOck-step. Let us
give them the keynote OF our fathers.
Will the old Democratic rank and
file stand by and see their proud ban
ner trailed in the dust? Will they
stand by and see the standard which
Jefferson raised and Madison bore
aloft, and Jackson upheld, and Polk
defended, and around which your
fathers rallied, and before which
your enemies quailed, hauled down
and trampled upon? You cannot
permit it. Come forth, then, in your
strength, and crush out the mongrel
ticket which seeks your support.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26
A SUGGESTIVE CONTRAST.
BrOwnIOw and His Successor in the Ed.
itoriaI Chair.

Nashville correspondence Cincinnati
Commercially
The present editor of the Knoxville
Wing is a Southern Methodist minis
ter, who was a red-hot secessionist,
but the tone Of the paper is very mild
and conciliatory. An article recently
appeared in its editorial columns con-
corning Northern men, which for
good sense, and a defense of that class
in the South, is ahead of anything
that Brownlow ever wrote. He used
to write considerable about Northern
men before the war, but it was not of
a very Mandatory character. For in
stance, it used to be a common ex-
preston with him that when he died
he wanted his coffin made with both
ends open, SO that when the devil and
the AbolitiOnists (he used to have a
pleasant way of chasing them to-
gether) came in at n end he could
go out at the otheri Yet he is now in
the Senate chamber with the very
Abolitionisfs that he was afraid would
come into his coffin along with the
devil, and strangely enough, he
makes no effort to get away. Worse
than that, there is a ''nigger'' also in
close proximity TO him, one of that
class that he used to think were so
happy when they were being "Well
worked and well whipped to quote
ms own language. To rush into the
arms ana into the bosOms of the very
individuals Whom he used TO exhaust
the English Vocabulary in denOunc-
ing, indicates a change of policy if not
OF heart.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26

Governor Bullock, of Georgia, has adj
dressed a letter to Republican Senators
and Representatives to the effect that the
charges made against him are the result
of Vaccinations of Joshua Hill whom he
fairly through the whole controversy, and
concludes by expressing his opposition to
Mr.. ~Bingham's amendment or any pro-
viso substantially like it, because he says
it seeks TO deny,the Republican party in
Georgia the fruits Of the political victory
they have achieved after the terrible
trials of the past two years of the con-
test.
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VIRGINIA.
An Actual Famine in A~ppOmattOx, Prince
Edward and Holloway Counties.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal of
Tuesday.
The undersigned beg leave to call
the attention of the benevolent in
Louisville and its vicinity to the cruel
restitution of the poor in the coun-
ties of Appomattox, Prince Edward,
counties. Our partial attempts to re-
lieve this destitution have only re-
vealed to us its frightful dimensions,
and convinced US that it amounts to
actual famine. We are besieged daily,
while at home, by aged and infirm
persons, by mutilated soldiers, by the
widows Of Confederate dead, telling
the same piteOus stories of no remu-
nerative employment, no income, no
food, and no earthly resource for OBJ
tanning it. Their petition is for bread;
meat they have not seen for many
weeks, and they say they do not
presume to expect il now. The cause
of this dearth are, first, the eXtraor-
binary drouth of 1869, which on the
thinner hill farms of the poor especi-
ally, cut OFF the Indian corn (the
staple breadstuff of the region) almost
absolutely; the sacking of this zone
of country by the huge and OmnivO-
rOus army of Gen. Grant, from which
it has never recovered the paralysis
of enterprise by the measures of the
Government, by which property own
ers are disabled from giving employ
ment to the labOring poor; and not
least, the prevalence of petty thefts,
the disorder of our society, which
have devoured the face of the country
byaa silent and gradual ravage, and
especially have nearly eXterminated
the smaller kinds of live stock, those
kinds which are usually most quickly
replaced.
These causes have not only reduced
the destitute poor to famine, but
have brought the landhOlders, once
prosperous, so near to it that they are
unable, even when willing, to relieve
their suffering neighbors etiectually.
The well-to-do farmers have, in
most instances, a stock of provisions
barely adequate for a mere subsist-
ence until the wheat comes in, and
this in many instances purchased
from their scanty credit.
Our object is simply to give u
attestation to these facts, and the as
surance of our personal knowledge
that the distress is real. Any sums
intrusted to US by the humane will
be promptly RENTED to a faithful
agent, to be expended in flour for the
destitute. We shall make no person.
al application TO any, believing that
to generous Kentuckians the knOwl
edge OF the facts will be the best ar
gument.
r. L. DABNEY.
+. n. WATKINS
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INSURANCE.
MASONIC MUTUAL
Life Assurance Association
OF MEMPHIS.
Cooperative and Purely Mutual-Charter
Perpetual-FOrever Exempt from all
Taxes by the Laws OF the state,
$4,000 for s1Os

EXPLANATTON: Si2 makes you a member
II OF the AssOciation-L-e. SO for policy, 81
medical examination fee, and 81 contingent
Zee, said 81 payable yearly. in advance. for
Office expenses. On the death or a member
an assessment OF g Is levied on every sur
vivinE member which is The amount paid to
the widow or beneficiary OF the deceased
member, thirty days being given To pay in
the assessment Of e AFTER due notification.
When the Association numbers several thou
sand they will be classed according 10 ages,
viz: All between the ages OF u and 3 years
in one class, and all between . and 8 years
In another, and so on up to 80 years, which Is
the limit; and every class to be carried to
500 members, then each policy will be worth
$1,000 Until that time each policy wiz be
worth double the number Of dollars as there
are members of the class; and az the death OF
a member the surviving members Of his class
only are assessed the g. The policy Zee OF
$40, or the greater portion Of IL, is made a
sinking fund to provide for the ~dehnqueu-
Giles Of members; and said fund Is loaned On
Interest, the interest accruing therefrom,
after d~efraytng the expenses coming back
TO the pOncy-hOlders as dividends. The
advantages over ordinary Life Insurance
Companies are: No panic can break IL; the
fees are so small, and required TO be paid at
such long intervals, that any aud every man
can secure to his family a competency upon
his death. This Company IS not restricted
to members OF the Masonic fraternity.
DC TRADER, PresidenL.
H ri. Raglan, Secretary.
H TRADER, Treasurer.
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look ON qHLg PIC7

r. J. Morgan has always been a DEM
ocrat. He opposed Know Nothingism
and favored religious freedom and the
rights of the foreigner, E. M. Yerger
abandoned the old Wing party be-
cause it favored Know Nothingism,
and eloquently denounced religious
intolerance and the prescription of
foreigners, while pleading for their
rights. Flippin never allied himself
with the anti-C catholic and a~nti-foreign
cohorts. Hon. Archibald Wright, the
father of our talented nominee for At
torney General, STOOD by the side of
Henry A. Wise in 1865 in warning
upon Know Nothingism. Neither
HeiskeH or Halsey eve favored the
Know Nothings, the Plug Uglies,
Rip Raps or Blood Tubs, who were
bounding after the foreigner.
NOW LOOK ON THLSg
In 1866, H. Z. Hudson, the Rad
icaI candidate for Criminal Court
Judge, took sides with the negroes,
and against the Irish, in the Mem
phis riots. He denounced the Irish,
md defended the negroes. In 1855,
Treadwel S. Ayres was q Know Moth
ing. He was a prominent member Of
this infamous clan, who, with their
dark lanterns, grips and passwords,
their knotty bludgeOns, their brass
knuckles and slungshots, drove for
eignors from the polls. Adopted citi-
zens, can you vote for the indOrser OF
+" Bloody Mondays" Can you vote
for one who has encouraged, insti-
gated and defended Know Nothing
ism? who brought up the rear, and
bounded on the destroying devils in
their work of oppression and slaugh-
ter? Only four years ago, 7. S. Ayres'
Know Nothingism broke out anew,
like a healed up ulcer; and, in his tes-
timony before the Congressional Com
mittee, he Kissed through his Gvid
lips the hate which his gangrened
heart is surcharged for the foreigner,
UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE UNDER
IRISH RULE;" our police "ARE IRISH
MEN, AND NOT VERY REPUTABLE"
THE VOTERS ARE OF THAT Low
CLAss-MosTLY GERMAN IRISH"
The foreigner who can vote for a man
with such an execrable and diabOlical
record, proves that he is as slow"
and despicable as Ayres has made
him out in his sworn testimony.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26

G.. A. HANSON was, and is, still bit
terly opposed to negro suffrage. Yet,
he expects to be elected to-day by the
votes of the negro. Such impudence
is as cool as that of Hudson's, who
seeks rebels votes after stigmatizing
them as traitors, and opposed their
acknowledgements.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26

1T is the duty of every Democrat to
be at the polls to-day, and to see that
none of his friends and acquaintance
are absent. If this be done our whole
ticket will be elected-our Courts will
be presided owe by able Judges, and
one Of the most brilliant of Tennes-
sees young sons will be elected At
tOrneY General.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-26
LUKE E. WRIGHT.

OFFICERS holding elections are re-
quested by the Sheriff to make their
returns in the LAW COURT Room,
Greenlaw Opera House building, this
evening
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I0@NaD U D-IaNN-N.N@H
Hon. P. I. Seruggs, Of Msssrs- Scruggs a
Duncan; A NacearO, OF Messrs- A. Naeoaro
& Co.; J. :. StantOn OF Stanton & Moore; A.
Hatchett,, of Busby & Hatchett; Ed. Pick
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W. K. BODGES. MD, Medical Examiner;
ONCE No. 80 Madison street. APPS q "
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REMEMBER that no certificates of
registration or tax receipts are re-
quired to-day. Each voter is simply
required to vote in his own Ward.