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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-09
For the SUNDAY APPEALl
WIND WHISPERS.

BY my chamber window the sycamoress stand,
Peopled by bird and bee,
And the winds dwell In them a shadowy
band,
And they whisper their thoughts to me;
Sorrow and JOY IN their mqrmurS blend,
And I sit by my window alone, end send
A willing ear 10 their mystic isre.
Voices Of winds In ae sycamore.
spring time has come. laughs the merry
breeze,
Crowned with her galands fair,
Trailing her green robes over ths trees,
Breathing her balmy air"
Brtght-eyed childhood comes skipping along.
Filling the air with its laugh and song;
-Gaily dance IN youths sunny aherei'
Sicgsth he wind through the sycamore.
Summers here, with her amber hair,
And her Witehing, dreamy eyes.
R~atubOw-hued are her garments fair,
PASSIONS respiendent dyes:
steer your bark 70 yon snadowy dell,
There, where the lotus eaters dwell
Hope Lies asleep on Fruit1On's shore"
Whispers the wind through the sycamore.
sad-eyed autumn comes stealing or.
In her robes OF russell brown;
BIRD ana blossom. and bee are gone,
Dead leaves ausLeFing down;
Friends and lovers, OF al bereft,
Summers pleasures have only left
QuiVering hearGstrtngs. bleeding and sorefi
Waileth the wind through the sycamore.
Whife-haired winter is coming now,
with his sad and sober pace;
Icicies hang from his furroWsd brow,
And shadow his gloomy face.
Blossoms blignted, and song birds down,
Hopes all WitheTed and dreams all gone,
Death sits crouchFd on my branches hOart 90
Moaneth the-Wind through the sycamore.
Springs bright blossoms and summers glOW
Are numbered with "things that weTes'
Sober autumn has crOWued my brow,
And silVered my nut-brOWn hair.
Gloomy suspicious cloud the skies,
Waves OF temptatiOn darkfy rise
How may / come TO the peaceful shOFe2
Ask OF the winds IN the sycamore"
"Firm to the helm OF duly cling.
Fearing mans praise nor rod
Mercy's offerings meekly bring,
Leaving the rest with God.
Judge not others. but look tgithfas
See II many a cherished kin
Need We slpeep from your 0t0n hearts doors %
Counsels the wind In the sycamore.
"Ealter nor faint through the weary dag;
Humble and childifke come,
Trusting his mercy to lead the way
Up 10 the heavenly home.
Doubtings done anu all conflicts past.
safe, come ye to your rest at last,
SpOtiess and pure OF the shining shores"
Prayeth the winds through the y camOres.
LIDE MERIWETHER.
80 WU=H
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THE Christian is ever told by the
pulpit that no compromise with sin is
admissible. he that is not for Us is
against US. Democratic compromise
with Rsdicalsm is equally impossible.
Ultimate theories of governmental
philosophy, that underlie the organi-
zation OF the two parties are as unlike
and remote from one another as hell
and heaven, and the representatives
Of the two parties as dissimilar as
angels in heaven and devils in tophet
As Webster, Clay and Calhoun were
remote in virtue and genius from
men like Brownlow, Clayton and
Grant. Decent honesty can accept no
scheme Of political principles which,
oblivious of the true philosophy Of
American government, fOrgets facts
and creeds that can never die, and,
e~viscerating the manhood OF Demo-
cracy, wOald convert it into a simple
agency for the conquest Of sp0ils and
the determination Of false or epheme-
raj issues.
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{" Deliver US from Evil

Little Charles Williamson lived
near a mandatory, and he W as very
fond of going among the Workmen
and the young people who were at
work there. The foreman would say
to hims keep away from the wheels,
Charlie" Charley did not mind, and
would often SAY: " l can take care OF
myself" Often he would go near,
and the wind of the wheels would al.
most suck him in, and two or three
times he grew so dizzy that he scarce.
ly knew which way to go. Atlength
one day he staggered while amid the
wheels, and fell the wrong way; the
band caught his little coat and drew
him in and he was dreadfulIy man.
gled. so it is, boys, when you go in
the way of temptation; you may
think you can take care of yourselves,
and keep clear Of the wheels; but OH
you may find yourselves dreadfully
mistaken. Before you are aware OF it
you may be caught and destroyed.
Keep away from the Wheels Young
ReQDer.
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Ths ,sIId PasrnIaUsa

The New York Tribune laments the
shocking deterioration of the French
female character, AS exempliied in the
recent events in Paris. During the
last days Of the Commune 1.-THE editor
reminds u.s. it was the women whose
fury was most devilish. Il was the
petTOleuSe who stole out by night and
devoted private houses to flames. 1t
was the virago of the barbados who
sssassinated when she could 10 longer
fight. Worse than this, when women
by the score were dragged by the vic
tors to some dead wall, and shot like
wild animals, it was women who ap-
plauded the shocking scene, urged on
the massacres, and insulted the vic
Tins in their dying moment. There
is no sadder pagein history than that
which records the part taken by the
women of France in the last tragedy
of the war. The nation must be1deep
in barbarism when its women are
more savage than its men; and its re-
generation will at best be slow when
manly dignity, truth, magnanimity
and culture, and WOmaly ~gentleness
and mercy are destroyed together, and
hardly any national virtue is left ex-
cept the love of country.
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me NaM French AssamhIY.

The GaIIOis divides the Assembly
of France into seven distinct caucuses
as follows: L. The Extreme Left
President, Louis Blanc, with not
more than twenty members al
present. A large proportion of them
were shot among the victims Of the
late civil war. 2. The Republican
Left, sometimes caulled the Tennis
Court Caucus. The Presidents are:
Rameau, the Mayor of Versailles, and
Leroyer, the successor of Arago, with
one hundred and ten members. 3.
The Conservative Republicans, PresI-
dent, RampOn; Secretary, Garnet 6S,
seventy members. T. The Feray
Caucus, of which NJ. Feray is Presi-
dent, with eighty members, and
which, with Mr.. Saint-Marc Girardin's
reunion with its 10 Orleanist mem
bers, forms what is called the Center.
The Sixth Caucus embraces the 240
members of the Right, under the
Presidency of Moulin (du Puy-de-
Dome), half Legitimjsfs, half Fusion
lists. The seventh consists of the two
three dozen Bonapartist, who have
no recognized organization.
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On the subject of the departure.
amendments, accomplished facts and
dead issues, which the Republican,
first advised. and a few Democrat:
have adopted, we have no doubt q
great many honest ana unsuspicious
people have been deceived. The
honest masses of the people would
never for an instant entertain the
thought of any departure from princi.
pie whatsoever. But they who got
up the trick were simply after the
spOils, and would as soon for that pur-
pose have produced the amendments
themselves q have made the iniquit-
Gus departure to accept them es dead
issues not 90 be disturbed. There are
few men who came nearer reach
ing the hearts Of the peo-
pie by thinking, feeling and ex-
pressing the mind of the people than
the Hon. j. Proctor Knott, of Ken
lucky. A barbecue was rendered him
at Hopkinsvile on the Fourth OF July,
which he attended, and addressed a
large coneourse Of citizens with re-
markable effect. He said of the ten
years Of Radical NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
that "for the ~unblUshing disregard Of
every Individual right, for corruption,
oppression and wrong, il stands un-
precedented ia the history Of the
world" He could forget the past with
all its blood and horrors and crimes, il
the party ia power would redeem its
pledge to restoreal AT rights and the Com
stitution. The pledge had been sol
EMMY made by the present President
on becoming a candidate Tor Office,
and yet there was to be found
in the Declaration Of independence an
exact p~oTtraiture Of the condition Of
the South since the wal. HE has
kept in times of peace, standing ar
mics without the consent Of our Legis-
latnre. He has affected to render the
military independent Of and superior
TO, the civil power; has given his as
sent TO acts Of pretended legislation;
has imposed taxes on Us without our
consent, and has deprived US Of the
right Of trial by q jury ofthe viein-
age0 II the nlustrious Jefferson had
dipped his pen ii, inspiration itself, he
could not have depicted more cor
rectly the condition Of affairs in the
South. No man al indorse such an
administration Of the laws, unless he
is joined to the car Of Radicalism by
the ligaments OF public plumber.
We subjoin the following brief ex-
tract:
He considered the adoption of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments the greatest crime yet commit.
ted by the Radical party. He chal-
lenged the record Of public eriminaiity
for a parallel for the enormities prac-
ticed in enforcing these pretended
amendments. They are no more part
OF the constitution than the resOlu-
tions of a mob passed in the streets OF
a city. The Fourteenth amendment
is the nliad Of all BUR woe. II we ac-
that, the prOudest hopes Of all
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MISSISSIPPI
The CrOps-A Grand Picnic al COldwatsr.
Miss, Etc.

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Special correspondence Of the APPEAB.l
COLDwATER, Miss, July 6, 1871.
l left the city a few days since on
q flying trip down the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad to get out of the
way Of the mosquitoes and enjoy the
pure country air which / supposed
would be delightful after suffering so
from the extreme hot weather we have
had in the city, for the past few days.
But L find the country about as warm
as the city and a great deal more dust
to contend with, and i think a day or
two more will satisfy me, unless we
have rain soon to cool the atmosphere
and lay the dust. But the hot weather
is bringing out the crop rapidly. Both
cotton and corr is looking much bet
ter than l expected to see it, though
the latter is beginning to need rain.
Some of the farmers a that a few
days dry weather viii injuie the corn
very materially as so much rain has
fallen up to the present time
that the corn cannot stand even
a short drought. But nOtwith-
standing there is many a " slip
between the cup and the lip y
the people in the country, both mer-
chants and farmers, are in good spirits.
At least they lead me to form that
conclusion from what 1 witnessed at
Coldwater Ito day). The young men
of the town gave notice a few days
since that they would have q
grand picnic today about a quar-
ter of a mile west of the depot,
and invited every person to come,
and the response TO their kind invita-
ton was the assemblage at an early
hour this morning of their friends,
prepared for the occasion, OF from five
TO eight hundred persons, composed
of the old and young of the county.
/ did not arrive at the depot until l
O'Clock, but was informed by those
who came before me that the crowd
had assembled quite early in the day,
and / was satisfied at a glance that
such was the case, for l found that
Motley's String Band, from Memphis,
had come out the evening before, and
the signs under the harbour showed
very plainly that their services had
been called into requisitiOn at not a
very late hour in the day, rs the saw
dust that had been put under it to
keep down the dust had been tramped
until it was as fine as sand. The !
dancing ceased 500 after l arrived,
and in a short time a sumptuous din
ner wss spread on different parts Of
the ground, and the crowd repaired to
the different tables 10 enjoy the feast,
which required considerable time.
After dinner was over, all parties re-
turned to the stand, and the services
of the band were again called into
requisition-the dancing commenced
and, l suppose, was Kept up to a late
hour in the evening. l should have
liked very much TO have been pres
ent at the closiHg scene, but eircum-
stances were such that 1 was COM
PEELED to leave on the 3 o'clock train.
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THE Louisville and Nashville Rail
rosd Company has recently declared a
semi-annuaI dividend Of 4 per cent.
and the Cincinnati Short Line also de.
clares one Of a per cent. The ques,
ton is pertinently presented, why
these and nearly all other Northern
roads are able TO pay large dividends
and yet our Southern roads return no
remuneration 10 their stockholders.
This cannot be due TO incompetency
or mismanagement On the part OF
their officers. Our Southern railroad
Presidents are men of as much ability
a. any officials ia the North. Nor can
il arise from a wasn't Of business. The
travel Is as large in the South As else.
where, ami the movement OF the cot
ton crop alone is equal to any two
items Of freight Carried over Northern
roads, while the general stransporta-
ton Of other articles affords a fair av-
erage. How DOES il, then, annually
occur that S0uttern roads generally
show no dividends, while Northern
roads quite IS commonly make hand
some returns TO their stockholders?
This has been caused, not from want
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-09

JACKSON, Tennessee, would have
physical as well as intellectual light,
and therefore the sensible people OF
that progressive interior city are
investing in gas works. Railroad
companies now have cars for the
transportation OF naptba, furnishing
the richest gaslight and cheapest to
consumers ever used, and Jackson will
soon be chesply and brilliantly llum-
mated, Fires from oil lamps viii be
no more, rates of insurance Will be
lessened, and Jackson becomes, when
its narrow gauge roads are finished,
and the whole place is lighted by gas
and Two brilliant newspapers, the
most attractive place in Tennessee.
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Division OF Northern Denoern

A correspondent of the Atlanta Slr
says many Southern editors and indi
viduals have been deceived IS to the
sentiments Of the Northern Democracy
on the subject OF the amendments,
aud that the Pennsylvania and Ohio
platformsswere coneOcted by a junta
in the Manhattan Club in New York
city. he says that twenty Of the
ablest Democratic papers in Ohio re-
fuse 70 support the Departcd platform,
and that in Pennsylvania the same
thing is true. We call attention to
the following extract:
It Is some years since conventions
have represented the honest senti-
ments Of tho masses Of the people in
this section. The politicians are or
ganized into ''rings" here, and /
grieve 10 say that they are not, for the
most part, remarkable for either sa.
gacity or honesty. But for the uni
versal unpOpuiarity Of General Grant,
and i may say, the hatred OF him, the
Democratic platform in Pennsylvania
and Ohio would render the defeat Of
the party certain in both of these
States.
Should the Democracy carry these
States at the coming election, it will
still be a matter Of vast Importance
that The party should not be commit
ted ia the next Presidential election
to the great error Of what is called the
New Departure; that is, our indoTse-
ment Of the two admitted fraudulent
amendments and the future mainten
ance Of them, without question or as
sault, a part OF the Democratic creed.
II this should be the case, whatever
are now the prospects Of Democratic
success in l5T2, / greatly fear they will
meet with signal deiest. In all my ex-
perien5e ] have never known 50 much
division in the Northern Democracy
as is manifested in this matter.
Anxious as the universal desire Of
the Democrats Is 90 heat the Radicals,
yet it is greatly 10 he apprehended
thet great numbers Of them through
out the Northern States viii never
cOmprOmit their s~eii-respect and de-
vOti0n to the Constitution TO Join in
this properly named New Departure
Be assured you of the South can
yourselves, and us too, from this
result, If you viii.
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kin-Graftinq.

In a letter to the London Lancet,
David Fiddes, surgeon To- the Royal
Infrmary, etc, at Aberdeen, states
that il Is unnecessary TO pat the
patient to the pain OF cutting q piece
OF healthy skin from the body for the
purpose Of transportation. All that
Is necessary to De done, Is to take a
long bist0uFy or razor and shave on
scrape on the epidermis sealesf rom the
convex aspects of the forearms and
thighs, and place them ontthe healthy
examinations. This can best be done
by brushing the scales of the bistoury
with q camel hair pencil. After
securing them in stu for taree or four
DAYS By means OF adhesive plaster,
the granulaiions ON which the epider-
mis- scales were placed assume a
glazed, blush appearance, which
gradually grows into skin, and meets
the nearest edge Of the healing ulcer,
which edge shoots out, ard meets the
newly formed skin on the granula-
tions.-MedicGt Gazette.
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COLONEL J. ", ALExAEDER, recently su-
p-erIntendent OF TIE Ctr Railway Company,
has been elected and a~ppoiuted business
Inaasees and superintendent ofthe APPEAL
rbe dise1arge Of the lutte Of the position.
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CHANGE Of SCHEDULE.
mississippi and Tsnnsssas RaHrpad.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
ersnada, Hausioa& Eastern Ia. e.


-HFFILE CHILE
- MEMPHIs. TESN., IulyI, lS7l.l
81 Proposals for the building or slzty-dqa
miles OF the above read, IN the Stale OF Mis-
sissipDi, will be received up 10 August lsL, 10
Include graduation, maSoDory and bridging.
also. rails. f~astenfnss and crnaStiea, NJ the
option OF the cOntraator.
Proposals for sections Of I'VE miles viii be
rseefVed. Prohles and Epectdrarions esn -
seen AZ the once OF tbe President. W. i.
Tucker, OKOlona, Mss, OF a. this ofdce. No,
II Magnolia Block. The company reserve ths
rfrht forefeet any oral Bids not lookfout -
"a eariy completion OF the work.
vi W.SMOON. rhief Enzineer,
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NOTICE

HAVISa Quaii1sd as Admiufstrsscr oftba
III estate o. Eueenie Ge0rysrett, deceased,
this Is 70 notify all persons having claims
against said slate to present tham 70 me
within she tine prescribed BY Law, OF this
notiea VIII be plead In bar; and those who
are admitted 70 said estate VIII please come
Forward and settle.
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will have ''gone glimmering like a
school-boy's tale-the phantom OF an
h0ur.n The Ku.Kiux bill Is entitled
"a bill to enforce the Fourteenth
amendments" that is 10 say, it in
vests the President of the United
States with more power than Is
sWayed BY any despot in Europe,
even the autocrat of Russia not exc
cepted. 1t entirely subverts every
principle of our government. So long
as it remains a part O the constitution
it viii afford q pretext to interfere,
not only with the rights of States, but
Of individuals. II you would exter-
inmate tine evil strike at the root.
The Fifteenth amendment removes
/ the very cornerstone of the Declare.
ton of Independence. All must go,
both black and white, to the sane
fountain head for their ~rights-and
that source is State sovereignty. We
are told these are
DEAD ISSUES.
If they are dead, American liberty
was buried in the same grave. Much
has been said in reference to the New
Departure, but the doctrine OF State
individuality, equality and sovereign
ty VIII be the last to depart. II Dem
ocrats turn their backs on these, then
let them depart forever. He argued
that there was no necessity for the
New Departure; that the year before
Congress passed the Fifteenth Amend
ment, the question of negro suffrage
was submitted to a number of North
ern States, and it was voted down
overwhelmingly. 1t was defeated in
Missouri by more than thirty-fve
thousand majority, in Wisconsin by
forty Thousand majority, and Ohio re-
jected it by hfty-fve thousand MAORI
ty. The people did not indOrse it.
Il was not a matter of expediency,
because the tide of victory was in cur
favor, as has been illustrated by the
increase of Democratic representation
in Congress. These things we once
denounced as the q~uintescenee of des-
pOtism cannot now be right. He
would submit to them only as he
would to the robber, when, with pis-
toll in hand, he demanded his money.
The Democratic party will never de-
part. When she does, 1.-THE day Of
her destiny is over.n
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The Crown Prince, frederick VIII
liam, has accepted the invitation Of
the King OF Bavaria to be present at
the triumphaI entrance Sf tho Bavar-
ian troops into Munich.
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Knaves from Illinois nave an idiot
girl chained and on exhibition in st.
Louis. The authorities have inter-
venCd in her behalf. The showmen
say the girl is an Australian Wild aRf
NAL. Her parents rent her out at $200
per annum. There ans no Ku-Klux
In nlinois.l
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Some OF the French soldiers, dis
banded since the cessation of the war,
are seeking to. enter the Australian.
service.
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The Grand Master Mason at Wash
lngton, ID. G., has received from the
Grand Lodge of England, a splendid
~ engrossed, and Illuminated on vel
hum, 4 resolution passed by the latter
Grand Lodge, thanking the Masons
Of this country FOR their hearty and
enthusiastic welcome and reception
given Earl DeGrey and Ripon.
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RAILROADS.
Memphis and Louisville
SUMNER SCHEDULE,
lure a, 1871

Train leave Day Express---4 AGO an.
New ..
EashYule-----. E3o ), !.
Elegant sleeping cars run through % SC.
Loui and Louisville on the l2aB pm. train,
and 70 Nashville on the $50 D N. train. The
sunday. myl8
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Victor Emanuel has returned to
Florence from Rome.
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For the SUNDAY APpsAL.l
ELOOuENcE OF The SLABS.

ian incident suggested TO the ielicitous
wriier TIE following parody oa Byron.
The parody, however. ends with the hrsI
verse;
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Some glazing orb, in which the stars grew
dim,
lair by the howllngs OF hells demon
band,
with blood-drops dripping from its crimson
rim,
Or angry traclgns Of some herY hand,
Were truer signs in Heavens front to stand
"Of Peace! Alas, the white winged angel
fed,
AdrighJed blythe big0t's blade snd brand,
And earth was soak'd with gore, by zeai0ts-
shed,
To force fsnatie creels, or prove q Savior
bledi
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a resurrection yet awaits the world;
Angels now kindred with Il extld race;
Ia pirate-llag of passion snail be furled.
The darkness fingers; but IL wGues apace-
Mans nature claims Of God its native place,
Scarce flower than the angels" And Ggain,
Some starr revelation of His grace
May link the world IN Loves celestial chain
Ana Truth be throued on, earth the true
Mnlennial reigni
MIA
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Rembrandt's Pictures.

=.
@ This new and beautiful style OF
PORTRAITS is fast gaining public favor.
ENQUIRY Is frequently made during the
day at Simond's Gallery.s sDo you
make iRembrandt'ss pictures?'i The
demand for this classic picture has
become SO great that Mr., Simonds has
mrde special arrangements by the ad-
dition of suitable fixtures toiproduce
this Justly celebrated portrait in the
very best style, and will be made at a
,smlhadvance in price over the old
kind. All are; invited to call at thi
Gallery and examine the work being
produced there. Chillicothe, Ohio.