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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19
The Western Circuit Lawyer.

The subioined sketch (from the
| Overland MOHtil0 we are induced &c
present to our legal readers, because
the picture of ''circuit riding" is moi
altogether unknown among us, while,
in our sister State of Georgia, it il
quite popular still.
The habit of following a circuit
makes a different, and in many re-
spects a better, lawyer than a city
practice. The circait lawyer in q
new country should be well Versed in
every branch of his profession. There
is no chance for a division of labor.
de must be ready for the Occasion
sudden - for he will often learn for
the first time the leading facts of his
case while it is on trial. He will sell
dom have access to any but the
most meagre libraries, and he
must carry his books in, his brain.
With a Supreme Court above him
that passes no mistakes, and a back
woods jury before hin9 that would be
wearied and disguised with a display
of technical learning, and would "tol-
crate no nonsense" he must be so
grounded in elementary law as to be
able to try his case closely without his
books, and adhere to the Ler SeriDta
while arguing to the jury as a man
rather than as a lawyer. In the early
days of Indiana, lawyers in good prac-
tice would ride hundreds of miles on
horseback. In the small country
towns the people would flock to the
courthouse as to a show, and in every
important case the whole neighbOr-
hood would take sides. There was
not often any assumption of dignity in
judicial manners and bearing. Some
times the court would adjourn to allow
the bar, jury, and witnesses to go to d
horse race, where ''his HONOR would
preside with the same impartiality
that distinguished his ruling on Kent
and Blackstone. On one occasion a
Judge, whose decision usualIy,stOod
fire, is reported to have said to a
LAWYER, who afterward acquired a
national reputation, Med, you can
90 20 the jury, but those horses are to
start in thirty minutes, and | advise
you to be brief.1 Ned was brief, and
the Judge remembered it in his
In the evenings Judge and
lawyers would meet at the village
in a social game of old sledge, |
and discuss with the same freedom a
false play and any mistake that had
been committed or absurdity that had
been uttered in the court. 1t was a
rough school, but thorough, and those
who passed through it fairly earned
their degrees.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

An organization has lately been eff
fected in Cincinnati which goes by the
name and style of the National
Christian Anti-Secret Society Conven-
tion." 1t is said to be led by clergy
men, and has already issued $4,000
pages of anti-MasOnic literature. One
of its members has also distributed
100000 pages more. They propose
political organization, and insist that
opposition to secret societies is indis-
pensable to save the country. They
are supposed to be old Know
Nothings; and Odd Red Men
and Sons of Temperance are to come
in for demolition by them. The Buck
eyes are an Inventive people, and
they will get up some sort of ex-
element or revive an old one, in or
der that they may have some sub
ject for the display of those fires
Of philanthropy and patriotism which
burn so fiercely within. How else
could their sophOmOres come forward
in a country wherein the body of the
educated are literary fools, and how
could the ultraist hotspurs of ali the
isps survive, if they were not to go
out on some new venture? Think OF
saving the country from secret So
cieties which have done no injury to
any nation for a thousand years, when
Washington is reeking with corrup-
ton and the agents of usurpers are in
testing every nook and corner of the
land. We fear the new nation savers
are only a little less crazy than they
are coTrupt.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19
Modern P~aragraphing.

That was a bitter joke of the man in
New Jersey who put a quantity OF
jalap in some beer his friend was about
to drink. The funeral was very gen.
orally MISUNDERSTANDING.
We don't know who originated the
above manner of stating a fatal occur
renee, but it seems to be quite gene
rally followed by newspaper para
graphers. 1t is a delicate way of put
| ting it, and reads much better than
when one SAYS: "He died amid the
most horrible and eXeruciating ago
MES" We get the whole story, and
our sensibilities are not shocked.
The new style of paragraphing
affords a fine field for the exercise of
ingenuity in conveying the intelli-
genee that the man died. Variety,
freshness, and a cheerful, not to say
vivaeious facetiOusness might be min
gled with the briefest notices of fatal
casualties that otherwise might be ut
terly neglected by the reader, or very
briefly glanced at. AS, for instance,
the following:
A man in New Hampshire, the 9TH
er day, ate fifteen dozen raw oysters
on a wager. TheFsilver trimmings
on his coffin cost twelve dollars and
thirty-fve cents.
A young man in Louisville exam
ined a keg of damaged gunpowder
with a red hot poker, to see if 1t was
good. It is believed by his friends
that he has gone to Europe, although
a man has found some human bones,
and a piece of shirt tail, about twenty
miles from Louisville.
John Smith, in Nebraska, said he
could handle a rattlesnake the same
as a snake-charmer. The churlish-
ness of the undertaken in demanding
pay in advance delayed the funeral
four days.
a circus rider, in Texas, tried to
turn three sOmersaults on horseback,
the other day. The manager sent
back to New Orleans for another
sOmersault man.
A man in New Jersey couldn't wait
for the cars to get to the depot, and
jumped of. His widow sued his in
surance company.
Few men would attempt to dry
dampened gunpowder in a kitchen
stove. a man in Canada did. His
afflicted family would be glad of any
information as to his whereabouts.
In Massachusetts, the other day, a
man thought he could cross the track
in advance of a locomotive. The
services at the grave were very i'm
pressive.
A man warned his wife in New Or
leans not to light the fire with kero-
sene. She didn't heed the warning.
clothes fit his second wife remark
ably we'll. G.
a boy in Detroit disregarded his
mothers injunction net to skate on
the river, as the ice was thin. His
mother don't have to cook for so many
as she formerly did.-Cfn. Times.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19
Beethoven Festival.

From the New York Herald, I5th.I
This monster musical treat has. so
far, turned out a great success. In the
vast volume of music required to fill
the ambitious programme everything
may not be in all perfection, but the
general effect is certainly superb. In
an affair 50 hastily gotten up con-
nOisseurs and delicate critics may find
something to complain of, but that
the performance is popular and gives
great pleasure to the masses Of the
people there a be no doubt. There
fore we callit a decided success. 1t 1E-
lords a grand attraction for u cogntrv
cousins, especially as there is a Der-
iOrmanee by day as well as by night
Great affairs of this kind leave a 00od
deal of benefit behind them. aDarf
from the large amount of money
which they bring into the city. There
are expansive ideas about them, pleas
ant social intercourse springs from
them, and art gathers friends. adj
mlrers andstudents out of them. Mon
ster musical festivals, therefore are
not all noise nor all sensation. There
Is a great store Of good at the bottom
OF them. We are glad that this COM
of Beethoven has all the
OF success in il,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

This is the anniversary of the pro-
mitigation of Magma Charta and of its
final concession by King John to his
mobiles in the year 1915. This "great
paper" such is the literal translation
of the two words, confirmed the lib
critics of the Church and redressed
many Of the grievances incident
to feudal tenures. 1t restrained
the royal prerogatives. 1t regulated
the forfeiture of lands and prevented
the grant Of "new fisheries and of new
bridges" like that near Raleigh), Gin
furious to neighborhoods." 1t estab-
lished the widows dover, and enabled
the owner of personally to dispose of
it by will. 1t protected merchants
and defined weights and measures,
and forbade "mOrtmain." 1t forbade
tardy justice. 1t confirmed LondOn's
municipal freedom, and that of other
cities and burroughs, from which
political freedom O%verspread Eng
land. 1t protected life, liberty
and property. 1t declared, over
the unwilling tyrant's signature, "We
will sell to no man, we will not deny
or delay TO any man, right OF JUS
tice." Such is a brief abstract of
Magma Charta, the basis of English
and American freedom. On it was
our Federal system of personal and
l6eaI freedom based, but its leading
principles have been violated and it
becomes US on this anniversary day
of its adoption to become reimbued
with its principles, and rebaptized
with its spirit.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

The Washington Repa6licon thinks
that the refusal of the House to sus-
pend the rules to pass Stokes amnes-
~ bill is no true indication OF the
temper ofthe house, and states that
the Reconstruction Committee will
soon present q bill which will pass,
excepting only graduates of West
Point, and former members of Con-
gress and army officers, who left to
join the COnfederaey. The main diff
fculty seems to have been that the
author of the Duncan letter did not
know how to draw a bill decent
enough in ~phraseology to pass muster
in a carpet-bag Congress. 1s3
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

PERSONS writing US long communI-
cations, in which they lavishIy de.
scribe and puff hotels, schools, towns
and individuals, may as well save
themselves the trouble. In order TO
publish eur news matter, which is of
greater importance to the mass
of u readers, we have been COM
PEELED to refuse these favors, even to
our most intimate and best friends.
There are many hotels, schools,
places and persons in the world that
may make themselves known by the
usual means of advertising, for which
our columns are always open. For
the rest, we desire to please the read
ers Of the APPEAL by the publication
of matter Of interest to them all,
which we should be driven to exclude
if wegave place to all the rival schools,
hotels and watering-plaees with which
we mightbe overburdeAed. The com
munication written by a friend of the
Gaines Institute, which appears to day,
is paid for, and othersa Z welcomed on
the same conditions,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

s. 5. Cox's sobriqUet, " Sunset" is
deserved. He has surely written, like
Or. Edwards, Of Virginia, a brilliant
book, infinitely superior to any vol
Ume descriptive Of Europe which has
appeared since Sterne made his "sen-
timental Journey" and Goldsmith
went Hut, playing over the continent.
Mr.. Cox is not only poetical in his
tastes, but ~eminently practical in his
political views. He made a speech a
few days ago in the House, as reported
in the Geographic columns Of the APP
PEAL, in which he said that Gold and
Silver are "He leg0t tenIer Of God IL
mighty, ,rhO has made them precious"
The moral idea conveyed thus curtly
is not bad, while the political concep-
ton enforced is faultless. The cor
ruption of public and private morals,
against which the pulpit is accus-
TONED TO direct its anathemas is pro-
perry ascribed to crimes begotten bv
the credit system Of which paper
money is the basis and embodiment.
Well might the pulpit inveigh against
if if a greater evil, the corruption of
the pulpit, might not superyene. Pa
per money recognizes sanctity in moth
ing. II occupants of pulpits in this
city today, dealt in invectives against
habits of extravaganza and dissipa-
ton begOtten by paper money, on the
next Sabbath we might learn what
singular influences are exerted by a
descent Of greenbacks, and how the
tongue OF eloquence tipped with
living fire can define in golden terms
the majestic worth Of redemptiOnless
paper currency. God decreed it that
the eXchangeable representative Of
values should have an intrinsic, sub
s%tantial value Of its own, due mainly
to the cost Of its production. 70 the
extent that we have violated this
natural law, by substituting paper for
gold, the aDothegm of Mr.. Cox is
worthy Of all aeeeptation, and gold is
the legal tender of The Ruler Of the
Universe.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

IT is needless 10 say that the
misfortunes of the city date back
to that horrible calamity by which
u and a half million iuterest-beaT-
inc bonds were exchanged for half a
million non-interest bearing scrip.
To this transaction, effected through
the Intervention of about one thou
sand blacks led by men said to have
been paid for the service, we are,
mainly. indebted for the terrible press
ure which the present city govern
ment is forced to impose in addition
10 all IFS special taxes. One who stole
only a few hundreds lies in Jail, and a
community, properly enough, turns
away in horror and disgust. Why
did not the pitiable fool steal
a hundred thousand State bonds
under a railroad law, or give
a negro 5000 TO bring eight
hundred blacks to the ballot box, that
a city might be robbed of half a
million dollars. This case wa taken
into the courts; but there it rests. 1t
was Investigated by the present city
government and nothing vas done.
VIII the petty thief escape be-
cause of similar inaction ? Why is the
arm Of justice paralyzed in the enc
case; and why, in the other, is retri-
button so sure and swift We gods,
what a crime Of crimes is poverty 4!
Whenever a poor widow or i'm
p0verished laborer feels most keenly
the woes Of poverty, and when the
remOrseless taX-gatherer wrenches
from the little gains Of ~ceaseless toll
two per cent, that the city's masters
may multiply and flourish, let none
Of these taxpayers forget how un-
worthy that government, State or
municipal. which suffers itself robbed
with impUnity by the rich, and
wreaks vengeance in the shape Of in
suferable taxation upon the helpless
poor. How pitiably weak and cor
rupt a system which visits swift
retributiOn for crime upon him who
commits a petty larceny, and yet sui
fers the great robbers of the age and
country to strut athwart immensely
and look honest men in the face with
out the Intervention Of prison bars.
NOwthat our courts are reconstructed
and r~eOrganIzed, may we not hope
that the authors Of suflerings to which
the public is subjected will be brought
TO speedy and cOndign punishment?
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

they were the first Americans yer
seen. Among the crowds who
thFOnged the court where they were
guarded, Beams atteltiOn was at
traced to an elegantly dressed lady.
The lady, it seems, smitten at hrst
sight. She sought him out and ar
ranged for an interview the next day.
She had an attendant ready to knock
of Beams chains. She frankly con
fessed that she had recently marrieda
man she did not love. She prOfered
to release Bean, furnish him horses
and to 90 with him. He plead that it
would be dishOnOrable in him to
abandon his feliOw-prisoners, who
looked to him as a guide, and still
more dishOnOrable to take another
mans wife. When he absolutely re-
fused, she gave him a package charg-
ing him not to open it until the end
of his first days journey. The pack
age contained some money, a ring,
and letter breathing the most tender
sentiments, signed Maria BaldOnada.
While at the head Of his regiment,
and when the patriot cause was wan
ing and almost desperate, the FORTUNES
Of war threw into his hands a wealthy
family of fOyalists. They had a beau
tiful daughter, SenOrita Yakima.
Beams kindness to the family enlisted
her sympathies. She fell desperately
in love with him. Her mother even
profiered that if Bean would marry
their daughter afld join the service OF
the VicerOy, wealth and honor should
be heaped upon him. Beans simple
reply was that he was ARepublican
and could not serve a tyrant. Though
Miss Yakima offered to share theNtOr-
tunes Of war with him, Bean was
compelled TO decline her profered
hand and fortune.
We notice One more, and more for
tunate, affair OF the heart. BY the re-
suits of the war a family was thrown
under Beans protection who had lost
everything. They We're relatives of
his great patron, MOrelOs. They had
a beautiful and charming daughter.
SenOrita Anna GOrthas. The doughty
warrior vas captivated, and reciprO-
Gated her affections. Bean married
&er, even on his retreat. But misfor-
tunes befell the patriot band, and il
was many years before he enjoyed the
sweets of domestic lite.
On Beams return to Mexico. after
the campaign Of 1896, he found that
another turp of the wheel of fortune
had restored 10 the GOrthas family
their immense estates. His cOnfiding
wife received him with the warliest
demonstrations of affection. He set
tied on a splendid hacienda three
miles from Jalapa. Here he spent the
evening of his days in peace and quiet.
The people upon the estate gave him
the reverence due to a regular Span
ish Don Of the old regime. He had
all the luXuries that wealth could pur-
chase, and was blessed with as tender
and noble a wife as ever returned the
devotion of a kn~ight-errant in the
days Of chivalry. He died at his ha-
cienda ON the 81 of October. 1916.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

The Memphis appeal refers to one OF
its friends as ALWAYS a Wing until the
Wing party GbOIitiORized." Proper and
becoming respect for the dead should
have suggested to our excellent cOntem-
porary the propriety of dealing with the
two deceased parties with more even and
exact Justice. Ii the Wing party's an
cient adversary didn't "GbOtitionize,''
also, it gave the abolition side of the late
sectional struggle material aid and COM
fort in the snaps of muscle, bayOnets and
sympathy. We would prefer not to have
our attention directed TO these little fami-
~ matters, but history is history, you
knOw.-NdShUtUe Banner.
The APPEAL did not refer to tone
of its friends 2 in makingthe remark
above quoted, but to one of its editors.
The Banner would interpret the APP
PEAL more correctly if it should take
the trouble to understand what it says
before attempting to answer it. We
are willing to excuse u respected CO.
temporary, however, on the ground
that after such an examination as
would be necessary he might find
himself wholly unable to answer at
all. The Wing party Of the North
a~bolitionized to bring on the war,
and its members now make the great
majority of the Radical rank and file.
The Democrats especially contended
for the South before the war, and have
been faithful to constitutional princi-
pies ever since. When the war came
on they went with their section, as men
Of all parties did in both sections.
Though a Wing, that voted for Hugh
L. White, Harrison, Clay and Taylor,
we confess that, take it all in all, FORTS
patriotism, and especially for its new
er-failing support of the rights of the
States and the South, we prefer the
Democratic record to the Wing.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19
Grant and the Catholics.

The World gives the following as the
reason why Grant retained Grinnell
as Collector of the port at New York:
|" ON the evening that the New York
papers were received in Washington
containing the dispatches from the
national capital referring to the fact
that Mr.. Murphy was a prominent
Catholic, the friends of Mr.. GFinnell
obtained an audience with the Presi-
dent, called his attention to these dis
patches, and began by assuring him
that there was more in this matter
than he would imagine, and that
there was a deep-laid plot on the part
of the Catholics to defeat his (Grant's)
reelection. This was sufficient to ex-
cite the curiosity of Mr.. Grant. Then
came the unfolding of the tale-the
great romance which decided the late
of Mr.. Murphy, and which was as
follows: You are aware, MI. Grant,
that the public are constantly receiv-
ing reports from the Ecumenicai
Council of the consideration of the
question of the infallibility of the
Pope; but while this is Q ON the
surface, there is a deeper laid scheme
underneath, which has, for its object
the control of the next Presidency and
the future destiny of this republic. It
being certain that Napoleon cannot
possibly live many years, and
that it will be exceedingly doubtful
if the Pope can remain in Rome after
the death of the Emperor withdraws
from him his influence and support,
the Jesuits are looking around for an
asylum for the head of the Catholic
Church, and to this country their eyes
r turned. To smooth the way, they
are labOring to elect a President who
will favor their movement and aid in
preparing the public mind for the adj
vent in this country of either the pres
emit Pope or his successor. Several
prominent parties have visited us
during the past year for the sole pur-
pose of carrying on negotiations TO
further this scheme. The result has
been that they have settled down
upon making Benjamin F. Butler
their candidate for President, with an
agreement on the part of the latter TO
aid the plots of the Jesuits. Every
thing is now ripe for Butler, except
in New York, and now they want to
secure the appointment of Mr.. Muir
ply as Collector of the port to manip-
ulate matters there, believing that his
intimacy with the leading Democratic
in the city and his promi-
nenee as a Catholic will enable him to
take from the Democracy the vote of
the Catholic element for Butler, and
obtain the assistance necessary to de-
feat your (Grant) nomination at the
next National Convention. |
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-19

PRESIDENT POLLARD, OF the West
Point Railroad, j. p. King, of the
State road, and WadIey of the Cen
trail, met Thursday in Savannah, in or
der to secure equal privileges for the
two Georgia lines over that in Ala
bama between Montgomery and West
Point. The two Georgia roads came
to terms and secured equal privileges
and must become responsible to an
equal extent for new roads extending
beyond Montgomery and Selma. By
the first of September, Augusta and
Savannah will have direct uninter-
rupted communication with Vicks-
burg. Memphis, meanwhile, is two
hundred miles further from the sea,
by railway, than Vicksburg. The
relative advantages of Vicksburg will,
however, be hardly appreciated when
we have built the Memphis and Selma
road. This same combination of
Georgia roads may be induced, if
Memphis stand aloof, to extend For
est's road to Holly Springs, and use it
simply as a "feeder" to their lines.
They would turn all trade and travel
towards the East; if Memphis and
Shelby county have directors in the
corporation, and if the road be built
by Western people, it will be used to
enrich, and not to impoverish this
city. The Chamber of Commerce
acted wisely when it urged Memphis
and Shelby county to build Forests
road atany cost.