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The Bis.s.

It is related of DR.. KennicOtt, who
spent thirty years in ~COllatiDg the
Hebrew Scriptures, and resigned a
valuable living because his studies
prevented his residing on it, that his
wife was accustomed to assist him in
his preparation Of his p0lyglOt Bible
by reading to him, as they rode out
for an airing, the portions to which
his immediate attention was called.
When preparing for a drive the day
after the great work was completed,
she asked him what book she should
now take. 'Oh!" exclaimed he, "Iet
as begin the Bible"
No wonder that he was a happy,
well balanced Christian man, as ready
to die calmly in Christ as he had been
to live and labor for him.
His appetite for the word Of God in
creased with its qualification. In
stead Of iretting at some 5riiing de-
fects in the translation, his great
genius and C~Ousecrated spirit found
full satisfaction in o lifetime perusal
Of its sacred pages.
She who was his hslpmeet in the
Bible sense Of the word, who acquired
q AAA1NLA- 4ALs AdkC LuaL BIC uAlkub
aid his researches, had her reward.
Her heart was so penetrated with the
sustaining truths with which her
sacred studies had filled her soul that
her cOmpOsure and Christian heroism
astOnished those who administered to
her husband in his last agOnies. Her
widowed heart found an anchor Of
safety nthe sweet, precious promises
of the widows God.
"Oh, that I had read other books
less aud my Bible ,moreT' said an
aged mother in Israel when called
suddenly to face death.
Shall we not utter the same fare
well cry; and if regret and shame
were not banished at the door of
heaven, should we not lament with
tears that other books, though con-
tanning valuable Christian truth, had
been suffered to crowd out the word
of God from our attention. Would
it not be well if we, as a nation, IS
churches, as individuals, should say,
with the man of God, after thirty
years of research, 'Let as 5eqiu the
Bible g"-AmeTicdn Messenger.
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Isolated from the Earth.

The Rev. DR.. ArnOt, Of Edinburgh,
Scotland, in a speech at the late ami
versary of the American Sunday
school Union, addressing himself to
teachers, used the following earnest
and impressive words: 81 have seen
an experiment in a chemists labOra-
tory, when they set a person on a
chair with glass feet, in order to $50
late him from the earth, and then
they poured in an increasing stream
of electricity until his frame was full /;
and 1 have seen when, if any one
came and touched his finger, the
sparks would fly cut and kindIe what
they touched. But if he touched the
earth anywhere, there would have
been no stream from him and no kim
ding; it would all have been drunk
into the ground. Now, dear friends,
take such a life as William Burns; 1
knew him from youth up. l
know that no man, il he had a tender
conscience to speak Of the Christian
system, could approach that mission
airy without feeling some fire coming
from him and kindling his own heart;
but the secret lay in this-that he was
isOlated-his soul cleaved not to the
ground. He was Isolated from it, and
when any one came neal him he was
kindled by the sparks OF the earnest
spiritual life and soul in habituaI
communion with Christ, getting life,
and not eleaviDg 70 the dust to let
Ooze away all he had gained. Sab
bath, school teachers, as an ordinary
rule, will be successful in winning the
little ones in proportion as they retire
and keep close to Christ himself. Oh,
what a world we are I'M What a
mighty stream this tidal time in the
nineteenth century! And where is it
more rapid and deep, and ready to
carry down souls upon it ike leaves
upon the stream, than in this great
and growing America? Sabbath
school teachers, you need TO retire
much and be with Christ, and get $50
lated and drink in his spirit, and then
come to the children and let them see
you have been with Jesus. Unless we
do this, we will not have success In
this difficult field.
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I'LL tA9 1AAAAo LAPAeah.l
MARK TWAlN'S LAST.
THREE ACES.

HM ODD EPIgODE IN SOCIAL EUCHRE
/ don't go much on little games Of kee7ds
played with q stranger,
Sence-durueC gaioOti-I tOOk q hand on
board the Natchez Ranger.
With three smooth chaps that said. they'd
uk 20 pasathe time away
In a little euchre or some such harmless play.
I never had such luck sfors, in any spot or
My hand was frequently lousy with both
bowers emo the ace.
The chap next to mesaid, ar we were playin'
You'd bust us surei we're lucky that its only
social euchret'
Bims bye the chap on tother side, SEE he, "If
And could diskeerd two kssrds, I'd have a
little joker;
I'd back my three remainin' kserds for all 1
could afford,
Agin three keerds in any hand there is
around this boardP'
Hooked mine over Rlch9 You betl I gin
achuckle merry,
And 1 knoW'd I hadh mimi cap" SEE /. "you
Then each ofus diskeerded two, Ihad all aces
And kEow'd them would lay y e any three
cards IN the pack
Soft thing? / guess not9 "Cap," SEE I, "jest
name 10 GyOu pIeaseg'
--- W@r 9AANl ~ arc ~ AAAAr A II tA4p
a Y On theseP'
'Jes so p sezI ], Il see your V and go two X's
betrsrI
That's jest my tx" SEE be, "Tm bound that
IWont be your debtor"
To cut it short L went for him, fast as s little
wagon,
I had q sure thfng-just the hand 70 make q
hot Old "brag" on.
Ny pond got dry. He called" me. / spread
them aces out
And reached tor that thar spot. I guess,
without a lingering doubt
on, SEE he, "them are not good" SEX
/, they can't be beat.
By no three kesrds Them aces must be lest
as good rs Wueatl7
Wal here's three Clubs-a hush, ssZ he, "a
flush viii still beat threes.
And capture your three aces and the pot
with perfect easel"
Pluckedf Now you're talkinf!I was Iucked
as any goOsef
1 would hev ut, but 1 soon seed it wouIn't be
no use;
Them three smooth chaps wss on It, and
wasn't skeered at danger.
Since then 1 don't go much on social euchre
with stranger. CARL BYNG.
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no extensive a system Of p~urloining,
covering q period Of months and
years, should take place right before
the eyes of even the merest novice IN
business affairs. The case has roman
tic features from either standpoint in
which It may be presented, whether
in prosecution or defense, and only
the fullest investigation will unravel
The mYsteries.
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VI
EYES.


H
4 wealth Of thought and feeling
Within those dark depths dwell;
A sWeetneAi half revealing
BeWitcheE like q spsuf
A Light Of sparkling fountains
Leaps meath the jstty fringe;
Now cold aH See on mountalus,
NOW warn a. sunsets tings.
Did I command the hidden lore
OF astrolOlc art,
Within those midnight depths I'd pore
And read, perchanoe. his heart
For "in the eye there Is the heart
A poet sage has sung
o. that he would the GIT impart
Toread the mystic tongue.
That speaks in many a tender glance
That quiveTs IA the eye;
That nestIss In the look askance,
That dares you to dasCry.
Blest be the sye whose duty,
Whose pleasure and who's care
Reflects those orbs OF beauty
And looks forever tlerel r. .
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INV YORK, december 81, l2sL
Market strong and active. with q
U5"ehE great and upright
E2ans
"In classical times there was 8 set O,
small, but rspscious critics, who we're de-
nominated crptGtOres Uer5OT1tm, who
suatched and caught 80 particular expires
si0ns; expended their strength on the
digeeta meHlbrG of language: birds Of "a
piue, who proved on Wcros % sgllaBles,
and gorged themselves with feeding on
garbage Of phrases chopped, dlslOcated,
and limbs srs by the claws of unciean
birds. such critics are rarely mnre dis
~tinEuishe6 for their ability IN discussion,
than fo- that manly moral feeling which
disdains TO state an adversary argument
Otherwise han fairly and truly, and as he
meant 20 be understood
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-01

The Fat Contributor, encouraged BY
Mr.. Greeley's success, is writing about
farming. He says: ga correspondent
asks US what we think about late
glowing. Flowing should not be con-
tlnued later than len or eleven O'Clock
at night. it gets the horses In the
habit Of staying oGs late, and duly ex-
poses the plOW.r
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a Dew. usullied year, ls ours Its page
% sealed. We know not what Is folded there
Me EnoW not whether gay or agony;
We know not whether Lfeo death is writ
Within the fearful scroll; but tits enough
go know the git Is Gods Within our breasts
And loves blasted buds, joys faded
WreaFlH,
al hope 5 pale, withered garlands, one
bright fewer
Is SIN uncrushed. undlmmed-lhe holy
flower
% Path Divine. We feel, we know Tia He
Who hath preserved Us mid the thousand
ills.
The countless dangers lurfinE Ia our paths,
siLu holds us iE The hollow or His hand,
And BIDS &c trust III Him.
Farewell. Old Year
Nay We when called, Ike thee, from earth
away
obey, Ike thee, the summons, calm, serene.
Mtthout one sigh, or roam, or wild heart
fhrob
10 mark the m0mentof dissolvIug life.
E1d OH may we, within Gse Eden land.
Where angel wings are E~lauclng tUr0' The air,
And sera7h songs are poured rom rRinbOW
clouQE.
once more embrace the loved and lost whcm
thou
Hast taken from us In thy silent hIght.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-01

LAST night the innumerable car
avian marching 70 eternity, bivOU-
scked one year nearer their journeys
end, and this morning they commence
the march anew. In other words
Old Time has completed another cycle
and this morning we enter upon the
New Year. We do not promise in
this article to indulge in the usual
commonplace p~latitudes Of the sea-
son, to recur to antique and forgotten
usages or to cuE from legendary lore;
but simply to offer the readers Of the
APPEAL our kindest wishes for their
individual enjoyment Of the present
season and a year OF unalloyed hap
piness. As appropriate to the occa-
SION and better than anything we can
say, we offer the following little
wreath twined Of holly and ivy and
wove by q beautiful poetess Of our
o En time and cline.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-01

JAMES FISK. JR- explains what be-
meant BY " gone where the wo0dbfna
tWinetb. You see I was before that
learned and dlgnihsd bO0y, the CoIa-
mittee on Banking and Currency. and
when Garfield asked me where the
money got BY COrbin went u, 1 could
not make 4 vulgar reply aad saw On a
spout, but observing, while peddIior
through New England, that everV
spout Of q house or cottage had a
WoOdbtne tWining about it, I said,
naturally enough, where the wood
blne tIlnetd. That IS all. 1t seems
the Congressional Chees5-WaXss did
not understand ny delicacy nor my
delicate alusion
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-01

A difficulty occurred near Oxford
recently, ~ which Henry Frerson
had his throat cut az the hands o.
Montgomery HuI
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-01

A train Of cars arrived in Vicks-
burg recently which had come
through from Savannah, Ca on re-
turning It carried 275 bales Of cotton
tor Savannah, and one car loaded with.
produce and marked, western pro-
duce for Savannah, compliments OF
N~ieksburQ.n
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-01

IL order that the editors and en-
ployees Of the APPEAL may have an
opportunity Of sharing ia the festivi-
fiesnf New Yeas p +t1sTtfa -
City bonds are i'm some reQues.
81 and none are offered under &
local stocks ara nominal.
The public debt statement wiz
lished on and after January 2, IS.
has been some change in the ARA
Of MISTER, and on the back
printed 20 account Of the boz
chased for the sinking fund TO de
statement viii present 3 more
hensive detail Of the several IL
bonds.
STOCKS M BONDS IN NEw r.
NEw YORK, December 81. l0:'
Market irregular.
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o. lee.

"A phiIosOpbic bsrkesper dsfsnds thu
practice Of putting tobacco IN whisky tor
the purpose Of improving les body and
favor, on the ground THAI It Is As nice 10
put IL ia liquor as 20 eat &C..
"A patent lock wiz soon be used on
street letter boxes and mail bsgs. bav-
ing a plste glass cover for the key-hole.
thts glass "a be broken before the lock
car be successfully tempered with.
There was never e more eatimable
gentleman, a more sensible and fucor-
ruptible, than james Rose, son Of a father
who lived and died In ONCE In this eitv-
q LEFT a stainless name, which his son
hiss borne w%0rthily.
The distance from Memphis to MIR
ley the northern terminus OF Portgr'g
Iron Mountain road, fs 1870 miles. Tbs
grading on this road progresses steadily,
Just now not more than one hundred
hands sre employed.
The excellent paper Of Major r. T..
Saunders, read before the British Associ-
alton and reproduced in the APPEAE. sD-
pears with hattering assertions a. ia
| value IN the Mobile REGISTER. E-i1r
Saunders is now sresident Of that cily.
The word TishOmingO means. we b.
lieve, an oaken bOugh, the nam, OF a IA
mOu Indian chief. Tho walks Of Court
Square are paved with gravel over which
old fish used TO travel. Classic ground
is Court Square, with Old Hickory con
templating such sacred soil"
-There are those who never can see the
point Of a Joke, or deem that harmless
which may be polutless. GOOd-humorsd
badInsgs they often regard as a g~risvous
wrong, and hus they do gross Injustice to
those who esteem them most. There are
two or three people who should read this
| OVer two or three times.
III any Northern gentleman would
enter upon & profitable task. let him call
at DOnOhO, Joy & CO.'sOfics and examine
a castor bean stalk, i've inches in lame
ter. The seed were planted in a garden
in this city on the 9th Of MAY. grew ID
feet high, and spread over q space Of Is
feet square, and produced a barrel Of seed.
"A poor fellow VINO mas been Tilted thus
gives U~tterance TO bis disappointment, in
rhyme:
IT'S sweet to court,
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NEW YORK, December 81, I2:E
Market strong and active. with a
IS U~chH great and upright
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TIE FASHIONS.
Oar Letter frsm asa Ysrk-Ths Prevailing
Styles TO- Hsa ans Women.

NEW YORK, December -.
All the currents which set toward the
New Year centre e present. in diree-
tion-New Years calls. This tims-hOn-
orsd observance, so dear 70 the hearts Of
all KnickerbCcksrs. has Of laCs years as
sumei greater Importance, and been more
strictly AMI religiOasly kept than ever.
The tables, % be sure, do uct exhibit the
aboundinEan md generous hospitality which
Distinguished them twenty years ago,
Whsn fdey grOaned under huge turkeys
and great boiled hams; bus they have got
over the meagrsneaa which restricted
them TO cake and vine, and display lux
ury in accordance with the growth Of
W6alth and the love Of creature comforts,
which distinguishes this age and this na-
ton.
There e something really human In
TINS custom, which keeps i5 alive and
makes &C. grow First 81 January calls
are not now by any means confined to
New York, and, ia fact, TIE custom - be-
coming 30 general that 81 threst5us TO be
as national, in time, as Thanksgiving
Day.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-22
GRANTS NEPOTIsM.

The war upon Grant by the New York
Sun for appointing all his relatives to Office,
las at last brought out what may be re-
garded as an official defense from the New
York Times. There is no relation Of Gen.
Grant who is not in public office. The
New York Times says these relations are
not as numerous as is generally reported,
ami that many of them are indebted to
Grants timely care of them before he be-
came President, and while he was
a trusted adviser of the President
he betrayed. But the Times con-
fesses that Grant has appointed thirteen
relatives to Office. We agree with the Times
that it is almost pitiful that the President Of
the United States should require at its
hands defence OF his official and personal
Integrity. No President before him has re-
quired such service from newspaper organ,
and the people ought to see to it that no
President after Grants present term will
need such defense, Thomas Jefferson,
when President of the United States in 1901,
wrote letter to his near relative, George
Jefferson, in which he said:
"The public will never be made to be
lieve that an appointment Of relative is
made on the ground of merit alone, unin-
euenced by family views, nor can they ever
see with appreciation offices, the disposal of
which they intrust TO their Presidents for pub
hc services, divided out as family property"
L;
example 10 the practices of Gen. Grant!
Mr.. Jefferson was sorely tempted to make
many removals, coming into office, as he did,
at a period of public and political excite
ment never since surpassed, even if ap-
preached. Mr.. Jefferson, in simplicity and
integrity, was a model President. Every
day he was in the Cabinet, and in the
Presidential Office, he became poorer and
poorer, and Lot like Gen. Grant, richer
and richer. The one made the public good
his primary object, and the other makes his
own profit and pleasure his chief end pur
pose. Gen. Grant appoints TO office his
relatives by blood and marriage by the
score. Jefferson refused to give his nearest
relative any office whatever, remarking
truly enough, while he refused, as follows:
cit is true that this places the relations Of
the President in a worse situation than il
he were a stranger, but the public good,
which cannot be effected if rs confidence be
lost, requires this sacrifice. Perhaps, too, it
is compensated by sharing in the public es-
teeu.'
We can add nothing TO these few words,
except to ask our readers 10 look on this
picture of the successor Of Washington in
the Presidential Office, and then upon that
OF the man who now holds the Office Of
Chief Magistrate Of the nation. viii we
ever as . nation return to theapurer days Of
he republos
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ANDREW JOHNSON.

The Baltimore Gazette pays Andrew
johnson the compliment TO say: "One of
the notable features Of the times is the bet
ter feeling that is now beginning to mani
fest itself In favor of ex-President john
son. If President johnson
had consented TO be the subservient tool Of
the Radical oligarchy; if he had shown him
self jealous, INSCRIPTIONS, and thoroughly
partisan; if he had lent himself to every
scheme that was devised to harrass
the South, undermine the indepen-
dence Of the States, and prepare
the way for centralized system
of government, he would have been praised
instead of being maligned, defended in
stead of being prosecuted. He might have,
also reasonably looked forward to another
term of Office; or, If he had chosen to re-
tire to private life, he would have been fol-
lowed by the hollow plaudits of the party
lie had served ''not wisely, but too WELL"
and by the contempt and scorn of all who
believe that the Chief Magistrate of the Re
public should be the foremost defender
of the Constitution and Of the rights
of the people under it. But Pres
ident johnson was neither despot
nor hypoerite. He comprehend the
duties Of his Office, and the limit of his
authority. He comprebended also, at first
dimly, but afterwards with singular clear
ness, the dangerous purposes of the Radi-
cal conspirators, and set himself in opposi-
ton to them with moral courage that took
nomeasure Ofthe strength which his ADVERSE
ries would array against him, or the means
they would employ to break him down.
BE went into office poor man;
he left it with only such slender additional
means as he may have saved from his official
income. BE accepted no gifts Of houses, cot
tages by the sea, orterrierpups; took no stock
in Seneca sandstone, had no affiliations with
gamblers in gold, and was never charged
with nepOtism either on limited or an eX-
tensive scale" The Gazette adds that he
quilted the Presidential Office "with pure
hands, and with the consciousness that lie
had not degraded it by greed or used it 10
crafty party malice, or to promote party as
cendancy i'll haGrant violation Of the COnsti-
tuition he was sworn 10 maintain and de-
fend.r
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Tur Mashlngton PqtrioL says: asena

THE Washington Patriot says: "Senator
Stwart is a member Of the packed COM
mi:tee Of the Senate to show the country
how not to investigate frauds, and 1t may,
therefore, be interesting to expose apiece of
81 g q sharp practice on bis part, in connection
with the Emma mine. 1t seems that Stew
arts company made show of negotiating
e Z with other claimants 10 the mine, and Gre
ated the impression that they would sub
NIT it by argument to the Secretary of the
Interior. In the meantime Stewart man.
aged quietly to get patent to the tract in
r-- question, and had benin Europe with it a
Z "a month before the opposing claimant knew
Of this sharp practice. This is probably an
evidence of Stewards fitness for commit
ice man.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-22
On Friday Morning, Dec. II
PUBLIC SALE.
ON MONDAY,
The list Day OF January, 1872,

7 WILL SELL TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER,
Il at the Factory of karsch & Bro, corner JEFF
ferson and Cherry streets, Nashville, all the Ma
chinery and Benches belonging to said Factory,
Boiler, two Planning Machines, five Lathes, one
Jig Saw, one Mortice Machine. one Tenant Ma
thine, four Saw Benches and seven Circular
Avs, both rip and cross-cut; one Moulding Ma
chime, one Beam-fastener Machine, all the shaft
ing, Pulleys and Belts, and seven Cabinet-ma-
kers' Benches.
All the above Machinery is In good running
order, and will be sold without reserve. Terms
made known on day of sale.
Dec. 70, 1871. JNO. d. MILLER, Assignee.
dec13 tbs
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TIE Washington Patriot saws: an

THE Washington Patriot says: "Minis-
ter Schenck explains to the State Depart
ment hi, connection with the Emma mine
and Informs the same that he has dissolved
connection with it, and viii continue dis
connected with Il during the remainder OF
his ministership. Does his repentance at
this late day save the honor of the country?
viii Grant permit him to remain In po-
sition be has disgraced because he has re-
pented.H
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-22

THERE is certainly need for the suspen-
sion of the writ Of habeas corpas in Chi
cot county, Arkansas, and the presence of
Federal troops TO teach the ku-Klux ras-
Gals who are creating a reign Of terror there
lesson they will not soon forget. The
Ku-Klux committee ought to urge Grant to
do something for Arkansas.
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Auction Sale.
Eis tho County Court at Gen.
freUiIEe, Hickman County,
Tenn.

r. G. Wrsy, Administrator, vs.. Heirs and Cred
itors of K. H. Wrsy, deceased.
D G. WRAY, ADMIR- OF Z. H. wRAY,
III. decd, having suggested the insolvency of
Z. H. Wray, deceased, and it appearing unto the
satisfaction OF the Clerk and Master OF the Coun-
ty Court of the aforesaid county, that said estate
Is entitled to be wound up under the laws gov
erning insolvent estates: 1t is therefore ordered
that all persons having claims against said es-
tate file them, legally authenticated, in the office
of the aforesaid Clerk and Master, by the 18th
day of June, 1872, for pro rata distribution, or
they will be forever barred; and that this order
be published for four consecutive weeks in the
Nashville Union and American, q newspaper
published in the city of Nashville, Tenn. Wit
ness: j. ID. Murphree, Clerk and Master Of the
County Court of Hickman county, Tenn, this
Dec. Is, 1871. j. d. MURPHREE, Clerk.
dar1o Il