Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-27

such items in the reports OF the Mem
phis and Charleston road. There are
. lime kilns everywhere, and the lime
. is the product of white marble. From
Knoxville there has been shipped
more than million pounds of hy-
fdraulic cement. and of zinc ore 112, 900
pounds from Noisy creek. and 460, 600
pounds of oxide of zinc. From CleVe-
land 100000 pounds of copper
have been shipped in the last
3 eight months. Another curious
item | find in the unpublished
annual report of Colonel Jaques, $780,
900 pounds OF bones, gathered from
battIefields, and 'cOrrals' of Federal
and Confederate armies!" Thus have
Northern and Southern soldiers not
only watered the land with their
blood. and illustrated by their valor
the most attractive pages in our coun-
try's history, but their very bones
contribute to the cOuntry's matchless
prosperity.
have given these facts, because in
telligent merchants of Memphis and
farmers Of the western division of the
State would know how essential to
their prosperity a direct road from
Memphis TO Knoxville becomes.
However wisely the Nashville and
{ Chattanooga road is managed by Col.
Thomas, deemed the most successful
OF railway Sunerintendents, the eX-
tension of the Memphis and Charles
ton road into this district, without
connection with the Nashville and
| Chattanooga road, becomes a con-
feSsed and unavoidable necessity.
East Tennessee needs, even now,
your surplus corn, and you require
the coal and iron, and all that East
Tennessee produces.
OLD MEMORIES.
General Sam Houston was born in
BlOunt county, perhaps twenty miles
| from Knoxville. His name will en-
dure while his statue % stands
| wrapped in q blanket, as he always
was, on the summit of the dome of
the capitol at Washington. lam told
that when Houston first grew up to
manhood, he was an Orderly, serving
an Indian-fighting Governor Of Ten
nessee. The Governor was rough
| frOntiersman, and, when visited on
one occasion by General Jackson, the
gigantic Orderly was greatly humili
sted by being made to enter the room
in which Jackson, then q young man,
was sitting with his EXcellency, that
the latter might behold the magnifi-
cent proportions and stately bearing
of the redeemer of Texas. Houston,
In his youth, had few advantages, but
was ever a vOluble, fluent speaker.
He speedily rose to distinction. His
sister, the wife of General Wallace,
died a few years ago at Maryville.
She was endowed with all the genius
Of her distinguished brother.
| ANDREW JACKSON.
Every incident in the life of Jack
| son possesses peculiar interest for the
| people OF Memphis. In a little log
| building on Cumberland street, in
which Senator BroWnlOw resides, An
| drew Jackson was first nominated for
| the Presidency. He was beaten,
think in 1924, by Mr.. Adams. in the
/ meeting that nominated Jackson were
| Pleasant B. Miller, Richard g. Dun
| la0, and w. g. BlOunt. The first, the
/ father believe Of your fellow citizen
| w. B. Miller; the second, brother of
| Judge Dunlap, who still lives near
Memphis; and the third, a son Of
/ VIM. BiOunt, the first territorial Gov
ernor of Tennessee, and afterward
Senator in Congress. MurfresbOrO
was then, in 1923. the capital of Ten
| nessee. At that time the good people
| of New England abhOrred the private
| personal character, as comprehended
sbrOsd, OF Gen. Jackson. Therefore
| his friends sent him to the United
States Senate. Within q brief period
the country learned that he was the
most courtly gentleman in his man
negs IN America, and very soon the
(! current Of popular favor was changed,
and at the next Presidential election,
| Jackson having succeeded Senator
Williams, the father OF John VIII
| liams, was elected TO the Presidency.
IACKsON's POPULARITY
| in Eastern Tennessee was boundless.
| It was his habit to give a silver half
dollar to each child named in his
honor. The donation was ever &C
| cnmpanied by the same set speech.
The owner of one Of these coins tells
/ me that Jackson said TO him, ''Keep
this, my son; on il is the eagle of your
country. Stand by it while you have
a drop of blood in your veins"
Does not this little speech Of Andrew
! Jackson account in part for the de-
votion of East Tennessee to the 'Old
/ fag?' These half dollars are heir
| looms in many mountain house
hold.
United States Senators Williams
/ and Hugh l.. White were brothers in-
! law, and for many years political ene-
| mics. They became fast friends in
! old sge and are buried side by side,
and their descendants have perpetu-
ated their virtues and the kindly re-
lations OF their later years.
ANOTHER CURIOUS STORY.
Ny IoquaciOus old friend, from
whom / was gathering incidents of
the olden time, tells me that on one
| occasion when Houston was chal-
lenged to mortal cOmbat-he had the
/ story from HOustOn's lips-HOustOn
went 20 Gen. Jackson to borrow his
! duelling pistols. Jackson asked
Houston If he had ever been upon
| the field. Houston answered he had
| not. ''Then." said Jackson, 'yOu
| may be q little nervous, and let me
advise you 10 put bullet IN your
| mouth, and, ia the act OF firing, com
| press It between your teeth, and
! strangely, but true enough, you will
find your nerves as steady as if made
| of STEEL" Houston, when. he took
his position, was seen to take, as WAS
thought, chew of tobacco. Snnh
GOODNESS Disconnected HOustOn's an
tsgonis!, and the latter fell, but not
mortslly wounded.
THE TRUTH OF HISTORY
is perverted in a story now going
! through the newspapers. When jack
son and Dickinson fought their IA
| NOUS duel, JscksOn's pistol failed to
| fire, and it is not true that Jackson
was wounded. jackson instan y re-
cooked his pistol, took delibera q aim
and killed Dickinson. DicL insOn
was then believed to be the best 'pis-
tol shot" in the State, and ne and his
| friends deemed JacksOn's death Ger
! tain, and thus Jackson justified his
conduct. DR.. May, Dickinson's
second, never ceased afterward to de-
| nOunce Jackson for his conduct on
this occasion. Whether he violated
the code in firing as he did, l am not
| prepared 30 say. His second was
Judge OyertoD, the original prOprie-
tor Of Memphis, who afterWard mar
ried the widow Oi DR.. May, the sister
Of Hugh l.. White. l.. J. ID.
/
Progress Of the Cholera.
| LONDON, August 25.-The Ide-
Deadeace Beige to-day discredits he
! rapOrted appearance Of cholera at
| Antwerp. At Koenigsbury, on We'd
nesday, there were One hundred and
| tWentv-seven cases and forty-eight
deaths. and at Dantzic on the same
dav there were twelve cases and fen
deaths. The epidemic is decreasing