Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-22

Intervention OF the DnanC0Ey OOuftt eHu
consider the proprety Of adopting the
proposed parade dress Of the old conti-
nentsls, Several of them have been bur
nishing the shoe-bueklss of their ances-
tors and say they will only march under
the flag Of the old thirteen States, They
are a curious lot of old fogies, and are
much inclined to retrOgression in politics.
Not a few Of them suffer their reverence
| for facts Of an antedeluvian age to affeet
their modern politics. They would have
/ the Radical Constitution Of to-day Bmod-
| eled that there may be an adaptation OF
| the cOuntry's organic law 20 the old nag
and breeches and ~shoe-buckles which they
/ will display on the next Fourth OF july,
| when the whole body Of graybeards IN
tend to go on q bender.
General Magruder, whose death was
announced in yesterdays APPEAL, was
| horn in Virginia in 1911. and educated at
West Point. He was brevetted FOR gal
| lantrv at CerrO Gordo and Lieutenant
Colonel for the same reason st Cbepui-
teDec. He became q Msjor General IN
the Confederate service, and in this c.
pacitv led in that furious, bloody charge
al Malvern Hill, for which be was de-
prived temporarily OF his command. he
was assigned to the Trans-Misslssippl
| Dapartment and commanded in Texas
uptfl near the close of the war. He was q
! bon ViUdnt, an elegant gentleman, fearless,
an evcallent story-teiler, and a devil-mRY-
care sort Of an officer and soldier. he
was the uncle of the late Colonel Smith
| P. Bankhead, Of this city.
Ethics nave not decided Wheth-
or il is less simple to kill with q remote
view to cover up ones crimes or 70 XII
/ for q drink of whisky. The simple test
| Of criminality is the thermometricsl con-
| dition of the vital fluid. 'Killed in cold
blood1 is q sentence that carries with it
q certain quantity of horror. When men
get into a passion first and kill afterward
| The moral public tOmac does not grow
/ dyspectic. The generous, tndulgent and
happily stupid public do not bother look
ing back to see what process was gone
through to pump sufficient electricity
/ into the brain to make the blood hot.
They do not attach any guilt to that sort
| of reconciliation. The news Of q killing
which took place in Woodruff county, Ar
kansas, led TO this short essay on the sub
iect Of stmOtive for the act" Two men,
white and colored. named respectively
| Lytle and Harris, were travelling together
| on q wagon, going home from town. They
/ had bottles Of whisky each, and q mutual
mack of cards, LYtle's bottle ran out and
| that worthy went to help himself out Of
/ Harris bottle. Harris demurred. Lytle
/ seized his shot gun and let daylight
| through Harris. Was it hot blOod1
1t is conceded that q whsrfbost, to the
very extent that it cheapens and facili-
tstss the transfer of freights from steam
/ ers to ware and store houses, is emineDtly
] desirable. There is not q merchant re-
! ceivingg goods from st. Louis who has not
/ abundant reason, especially during win
try months, to thank the city government
which permitted the st. Louis Packet
Company to adopt q means Of protecting
| frsights against transforms and OF lessen
ing those incidental charges at the wharf
| which have done much to drive trade
/ from this city. Yesterday afternoon
there were eighteen steamers at the river
| shore. and even with this number receiv-
ing and dischsrging freights there was
not space enough for ali to have access
TO the wharf, streWn as II is with barrels,
! boxes and bales. A wharf boat is said by
s-teambostmen to be the equivalent in
value to three hundred feet of wharf
front. Three OF four of them would OBJ
viate the necessity OF digging away the
| bluff below Union street. At st. Louis,
wharf boats line she river shore and with
out them the immense trade Of that city
could not be accommodated. Some
months 2 the Chamber Of Commerce,
after q thorough discussion of the matter,
declared in favor of wharfbOsts as dis
tinguished from trsding boats, and such
has been the success of the Arkansas
Packet Company, and such is the extent
OF the growing trade il must Rccommo-
date, that it has bought the finest wharf
boat ever constructed. During the month
It will be brought down from Metropolis
Illinois, where il was built at a cost of
81, 900, and anchored in front Of the center
of the city.
of the fifty thousand people in Mem
phis, only six thousand attend the
churches. There is no work-houss for
petty Culprits, and no great seat Of indus
try in which the impoverished and uutor-
tunate may find employment. Fol a
helpless, friendless woman there is no re-
course; and when ics must give bread,
she is cursed that she even lives. That
she may become desperate in evil, her
! criminalitv is burdsnsd with laWless eX-
actions, and she is plunged into hopeless,
/ irreclaimable ruin. The number Of these
outCasts is constantly augmented, and the
evils Of their condition hourly aggravated.
/ The hand Of reform is extended to no I'M
taught, vicious youth, who lives by petty
pilferings, and the voice Of the pulpit
! never reaches the lowest slums of vice.
Surely it becomes the intelligent n viz
tuOus to devise plans of practical reform.
ElOQuence that echoes within frescOed
halls, and music waited from carved gal
leries, its intOnstions softened by an or
CANS mellow breath, may delight the six
thousand good people who occupy cush-
toned pews, and have their moral faculties
bsthed in the droppings Of the sanctuary
but the forty thousand men II women
and youths who never enter the ssnctu-
arv, deserve a share Of attention at the
hands of the generous and good. That
Christianity which forgets the multitude
while paving the way Of its own profess
sors to sbOdes Of bliss, is not Of the sort
which the Savior inculcated. In all this
the pastors and church members are not
culpable. The task before them seems
superhuman; and yet its responsibilities
cannot be evaded. The domains of virtue
and Christianity can only be widened by
contracting those Of idleness and coDse-
uuent vice. We need q cotton mill which
may give employment TO women and
| children, and the churches should build
it, or the good people of the church. Then
a church which the poor may enter Will
rise hard by, and vice will veil its face
while industry inculcates lessons as In
valuable as those that fell from the lips OF
our Savior.
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