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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17
TAXATION.

The New Orleans PicdVtne, In an article
upon this subject, very truly and forcibly
remarks that all taxes bear at last upon
labor, production and consumption. II
the land Of the nonresident capitalist Is
taxed, those who hire and till 1t pay the
tax. If the wealthy mans store and the
ground on which 1t stands are taxed, he
adds the tax to his rent, and the merchant
adds the rent to his wares, and the buyers
and consumer Of his goods st last pay
the tax assessed against the wealthy, and
perhaps nonresident, landlord. So,
when the tax on 8 clearinghouse
Is increased by a hundred dollars,
It is added to the rent, and the
keeper adds the increased expense to
his dodgers and guests. Exact an exor-
bitSnt license from a retail grocer, and the
tax can be tasted in every article he sells.
Public taxes enter into everything we
buy, sell, handle or think about. Taxa
ton Is an atmosphere which all must
breathe and feel in common. 1t is sn I'M
seen weight that hangs on every enter
prise. Those who know the least Of the
manner in whiof public taxes effect them
i~njuriously, feel the damsge without
knowing its cause, Oh the method Of Its
hurtful operation. It hiss been q long
time since the compassionate equestrian
tried to relieve his lame and jaded steed
of the burden Of his heavy saddlebsgs by
shifting them nom the horses back to his
own shoulders without disnounting."
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17
rHE KU.KLux Committee.

The Washington RePGbticdn, good Rsdi-
csl authority, says the report Of the COM
mittee on Southern outreges will not be
ready for congress until after the holi-
days. II is expected that some recon-
mendstion will be made on the subject Of
general amnesty, q pertinent 20 the
labors of the committee. The ch2irmen
of the committees, Senator Scott and
Representative Stevenson, are preparing a
careful digest Of the testimony taken In
Washington and by the subcommittee
Of which they were members in South
Carolina. The other subcommittee, Of
which Senators Poole and Pratt are chair
men, are at work taking testimony on
the financial condition of affairs, and the
state Of society in northern Mississippi.
The report of the committee, 1t Is further
stated, will trace the history of the ku-
klux organization from its formation in
Giles county, Tennessee, in 1856, through
its manifestations in the Southern States.
To be thoroughly historic, the committee
should add the cost Of the congressional
bill to the country, in the per diem and
mileage Of its members; the loss of the
industry Of the brutal negro mob now
rsvaging the best counties Of South Caro-
lima, and Of the thousand or more white
families compelled 10 leave their homes
by the brutal license of these same
negroes. Also, they should include the
particulars Of the wholesale thefts repre-
sented by the bonded debts of the several
Southern States, amounting in the gross
to 500, 100000. Without these and such
items IS Clayton's conduct In Arkansas
viii furnish, the majority report Of the
ku-klux committee will be incomplete.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17
IN mi wEsT,-srHERE is INDIA

There yss never = citizen Of Shelby
oonn,v ssve one. and he should be name
less forever, who hiss said he would OPP
pose the subscription Of q million ooAsrs
20 secure the construction Of 8 railway
from Memphis to Shreveport. The stone
enters OF the city have agreed never 70
carve this name on 3 grsvestone; the
-rewSDspers, " to print it, and tie
sslhsh wretch must live in III
isolation. and be consigned st last TO I'M
mortal oblivion. There wss never PeO-
nile more thoroughly devoted 70 any one
s,nole purpose than those Of this county
m 4 communication Of q task IS easily
achieved az 1t is full Of unquestioned
b~snssoence, This road is wholly I'M
like Any ever proposed 70 be Doht
by the people of Shelby. 1t need only
be named to provoke sven the BIO
ouence of lsudstion; its termini reed
only be designsted on 8 map, 10 Demon
strste its p~roftableness Its riches are so
apparent thst those most ignorant Oh
The topography Of the country, nave
heard of the boundiess OF
the valleys of Red, ouschits and Arkansas
rivers. Each of these streams hoWs
through q country as rich as the Level
plsin beyond the Mississippi in Arkansas,
and vet these three smaller rivers never
desoiste wide districts by floods. linen
ask whether the rosd, as an investment,
will prove profitable, the facts are patent
and tell their " conclusive story;
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17
THE KAVY.YARD AND LITTLE ROCK
Road.

BY all means the city government, since
IL secures itself against any sppreciable
loss, should suffer the navy yard TO be ar
propristed to the use Of the Little Rock
road. People beyond the river continue
TO complain of evils 10 which they are sub
jscted, in the disposal Of freiRhts, and the
Little Rock rosd-thst Pinch msy flourish
forever, and the trade of this city with the
west be relieved Of terrible exsctions-
should have it's depository for freights in
the navy-ysrd. In 3 few days new cars
and locomotives viii arrive. the track Of
the road Will be narrowed, and its bust
ness doubled. Then q steam railroad
ferry viii at oncs be provided and the
Little Rock and Louisville roads will con-
'stitute an unit from the Ohio 70 the Ar
kansas. LIST the Little Rock road have It's
terminus and depot In the nsvy-ysrd-
for nothing, II on no better terms. The
present condition Of things is wholly In
suffersble. II any doubt, let them listen
TO stories that come to US from all the
towns and villages OF Arkansas.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17

1t is q foregone conclusion with the
Grant Radicals in Washington that the
Democratic representatives elected 70
congress from Texas will not be allowed
to take their sests. The Washington Re
gabRcan, the onclal organ Of Grant, says;
n.mocratIe candidates, It Ia
SID nropose to contest for their. seats, upon
The nfea that they were entitled 70 tne IuL
resuff OF their bloody and reNOlnLloneLy
Seaif uronslv bV them in enforcing the stale
siestfor law. 1t would be well Tor THESE lnul-
Viduais 10 study their situation before tnsy
MAKE the contest Their cases are nj sunlect
for Investiqation before the ku-klux commlt-
tee and q Federal court II Is nlgn TINS sns
Federal laws were being msoe 3 reelity "
should step in and not allow aloyal governor
ana me heroic party at his back 20 nght TIM
battle against treason single-hanoed'
And the editor who writes this justiaes
1t with the patent lie SHAT the recent
congressional campaign Wa made in VIC
lent and open defiance Of the United
States laws regulating elections for con
gressmen; in fsct, there was no attempt
on the part Of the Federal officers to pro-
vide for the enforcement Of this act. And
Notwithstanding the publication in Official
proclamation by the governor OF this law
the very absence Of United States Officers
to enforce 1t was taken as an invitation tc
Yiolate its vital provisions" And yet {
little farther on, this corrupt scribblel
for q bad cause cOnfesses that Gov
ernor Davis could not have beer
thus overswed. He says: "Thst the stats
has been saved from g fearful scene o
~internecine war Is only due to the deter
mined and energetic stand made by thu
governor" The energy that saved thu
State from internscine var was surely
equal to the prevention Of fraud at thu
ballot box. The Washington Republican
is simply fslsifying the truth. Davis
whom the New York Evening Post, q few
days ago, found 1t necessary to rebuke TO
his Radical Encouragement Of the affair
| of Texas, had everything his own way
was beaten only by = general uprising o
thu honest but msltreated people of tn
State. This article of the Republican
carries contradiction upon its face.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17

THB total Indebtedness of Tennessee OF
the LIST of October last wss "a, sss, Os9 10
The population Of Tennessss being by th'
last census 1 ,25s, $40, this gives 3 per CAPT
ia debt of thirty-thres dollars for: every
man, woman snd child in the State, OF
some two hundred dollars 70 every voter,
Considering, says the New York World,
that the State debt Of New York is but
some foTty-four dollars per voter, and
thst Of Pennsylvania about hfty-three
dollars, the nature of the legacy LEFT the
people Of Tennessee by the Brownlow re.
gime ia quite apparent.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17
TENDER OonsCrrxCE or THE STATE

TENDER C-OHsCIEECE OF THE STATE
s The statute of Tennessee under which
State bonds were loaned to railroad com.
psnies expressly provides that sucI
bonds shall not be sold for less han theil
face value. This was a public statute
the lsw Of the land-snd all men dealing
under It must have known its provisions,
No banker in Wall street ever bought 6
public security nat he was not advised Of
the provisions Of be act of legislation su
thorizing the issuance Of the paper In
which he invested, and there Il not to-day
q bull or bear IN Wall street who does not
know that such is the railroad aid law OF
Tennessee. 50 plain is the law and so
pslpable are the resulting rights Of
parties, that General A. N. West, when
bonds were loaned 70 his road, the
Mississippi Central, Q dared TO sell
st ali, since q sale wss st the time I'M
possible. The bonds were therefore
hypothecsted from time 70 time, and
simply used ss q basis OF credit. At least
they were thus used with an East
Tennessee Wall street firm. When the
railroad company's paper insured, for the
security Of which the bonds were deposit
cd, the arm bad exploded, and the bonds
had peer sold. The bonds are numbered.
and the compCrollsr's books designate the
specific bonds that were Issued to Gensral
West. They are still the property Of his
railroad company, and II found,
il occurs to us, might be
replevisd. The present holders, in any
svsnt, did not take them without that no.
lice given by the public laws Of Tennessee,
and since these holders secured them for
less than their "fsee value" they OBJ
tanned them in violation Of law, and ere at
most only entitled, as between themselves
and General West. to the amount they
paid for them; as between themselves
ssd the state, they are not entitled to one
dollar. And yet this Is an Mlustrs-
tson Of countless transactions OF the
,sme sort by which the laws Of Tennessee
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17

were dehed and her people robbed. What
Obligation in law or morals rests upon Us
to pay the interest or principal OF bones
sold by railroad companies in defiance Of
public acts of the legislssure1 At most
the people should only refund to the
thieves the amount they paid for these
State railroad bonds. Such would be the
conduct of an honest man, and Tennessee
only proposes to be an honest State.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17

TWEED, MURPHY q Co., stole aboui
twelve millions Of dollars, and the
Democratic ofaoials and citizens Of New
York at once took steps to punish them
and have the principal thieves on the
road to Sing Sing. GoVeror Scott and his
aids stole thirty millions in South
Carolina, and Grant and all his paid
journals in the country are trying to get
him out OF the difficulty. This, ssys the
Pittsburg Post, Il the difference between
the two parties.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17

SEESSEL & SON, of 259 Main
street, having completed their ar
engagements to close cut their retail
trade, and engage altogether in the
wholesale, have redyced the prices Of
every article they offer for sale TO
COST. They make this sacrifice be-
cause they mean now, as they have all
the time, to be equal to every promise
they make or have made through the
press. They are determined to close
out by the LIST OF January every style
Of goods they have on hand, and at
prices such as no other house In Mem
phis can comDete with. Families
needing to recuperats their household
goods or wardrobes will find in our
offers UNPARALLELED BAR
GAINS. We will sell regardless Of
consequences, and at any cost to our
selves. We mean to be in the whole
sale trade exclusively by the 1st Of
January and without fail. We invite
your attention to these facts, and ask
your custom to enable us to carry out
our programme.
SEE$EL & SON.
November IL, 1871.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17
DEMOCRA1Ic MASS MEETING

Pursuant to q call, numerously signed,
s Mass Meeting OF the Democracy Of
Memphis viii be held In the Greenlsw
Opsrahouse on Saturday, December 9th,
Tor the purpose OF nominating candidates
for mayor and other municipal offices.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-17

AS Dor as Grant asoertAIned that
Bullock had manipulated $50, 600, 900, he
began 10 consider the necessity for putting
Georgia under martial law. Grant win
protect the thieves.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16
COMPASS POINTS.

November landed nearly 10000 Germans in N. Y.
- Ramsey would call north half Dokota T., Ojibwa.
C Coal reported near St. Cloud, Mimi. The Til
tonian strumpet disgraces n. Y. audiences served
'em right - Lima S. A gives Chicago $10,0O0.----
England engaged in catacazying Schenck 800 bills
before Congress Minnesota Websters carving more
work - Tichborne all right: the world can sleep
soundy. The l. 0. O. Knownothings still filling
lighted kerosene lamps. st. Paul Woodruff mauls
respectable lady Postal convention concluded,
U. S. and Denmark. laundering everywhere active
this winter. --Dilke is the champion English throne
tipper.---- One drunken woman burned another fro
zen at Chicago Minneapolis don't like Drake.
Beecher goes back Spirituasm - Oneota is de-
MED depot - The Good Samaritan at St. Paul, is
Mintzer: at Duluth, Trumbull. - Warwick Castle,
Eng sadly damaged by fire. Great floods at Tien-
tsin, China - Buffalo blind to Niagara canal
Internal Revenue foots up 25 millions Philadel
phia makes 500 locomotives for Russia. Much snf-
ferng among the poor 35 Angelic Chinese killers
indicted. r. r. freights advanced. Population
u S. 80 millions lacking nearly n thousand. .----
Pestilence raging in Europe and a.--U. S. survey
coasting American continent. -Four drunken men
drowned at Pittsburg Gold as low as in 1862
Theirs worrying about the Orleans boys Illinois
wants millions from Congress for Chicago. Port
age Lake wants a Mineral Range r. R.----It is pro-
posed to make our foreign consus immigration agents
Mayor Medill leaves Chicago Tribune. 500
millions destroyed by fire in lS7l.---3500 whites
dered off Usage reservation. ---Bigamy Bowen still
wants to legisate. Portland Oregon, is salooned
to death Lake Superior brown stone in demand at
Chicago. Wyoming trying to repeal the bill grant.
ing womens suffrage Rejoicing Fittsburg hopes to
consume its smoke. Alexis comes to the gigan
tic toadies of the West.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

Porcelain clay Of excellent quality al
Grand Rapids.
Oshkosh Times maps railroad to On
tonagon on Lake Superior.
Great demand for teams in the lGm-
bering business at Fond du Lac. One firm
buys two hundred.
Whitewater marketed 100 tons of tur-
keys last winter, and talks turkey again this
winter.
A railroad with several branches, is
projected from Milwaukee to Lake Superior
via Green Bay.
Railroads are projected from Green
Bay to Lake Pepin, and from Marinette or
Peshtigo to St. Croix river, or lake.
--Peshtigo with 25 lumber camps will
save much Of the burned pine.
Hudson reported lively since the ad
vent of her railroad.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16
LATEST NEWS.

u. S. Attorney General Akerman re-
signed; Ex-senator Williams of Oregon:
takes his place.
New u S. Representative apportion-
ment 2s3.
Wisconsin is entitled to eight repre-
sentatives.
10000 ladies petition Congress against
female suffrage.
Senate vigorously debating civil re-
form.
Alexis gives $4,000 to Boston poor
s.. 900 to New York; S., 900 to Chicago.
"A collision at Cleveland kills two
brakemen.
IN. Y. Herald's Washington dispatch
says England outwits us in the treaty; fears
renewal Alabama dispute.
The Prince of Wales reported "un
quiet for the three hours preceding
AN. yesterday.
st. Paul Pioneer publishes the conclu
sion of the Superior Memorial to the 'Secre
tary of War concerning the Duluth canal
and-dyke outrage.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16

MEDICAL Through the solicita-
opening an office at the Avery House, where may be
consulted between the hours of and 8 o'clock p. M
on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays of each week
Calls made at residences after Office hours Especial
attention paid chronic diseases of any character
Very respectfully. Z, E. COLLINS, NJ. D.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16
SUPERIOR IN THE ST. PAUL CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE.

The following communication presented
bv Capt. James Starkey, this week, to the
St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, will be
interesting to our readers. The Capt. is
familiar with the head of the Lake, on both
sides of the ST. Louis river and knows
whereof he affirms.
That the honorable body before which
the paper was read, attached no little I'M
portance to it's subject, is manifest by then
reference of the document to a special com
mittee.
We entertain 10 doubts of the wise an'
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16

favorable action of the ST. Paul capitalists
and railroad men in this matter as they are
not the creatures of Eastern Bankers, but
own themselves and their enterprises The
paper referred to, reads:
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16

Two FEET BETTER.-On the Strawberry
question, the editor of the St. Paul Press
says, that west Of St. Joseph he "found
stalks of the common strawberry, growing
in the shade of hazel bushes, over three feet
high" That is nothing; we have seen
strawberries, growing in the shade of hazel
bushes over five feet high.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16

certain sound An act for the renewal of
the grant to the State-not to individuals
or particular corporations, nor for their
benefit, but to the State only-should be
passed early this winter
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16

THE Duluth Minnesotian almost noticed
this way station again last week. 1t has
long been grief to us that we could not
more uniformly attract the attention Of
that metropolitan journal. The eldest edi-
tor mustn't discriminate in favor of Oneota
and Chicago.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16
THE WEST WISCONSIN R. r.

The West Wisconsin r. r., the new line
from Tomah to Hudson, Wis, was first sur
veyed in 1868; put under construction July
1866; finished to Black River Falls, 80
miles, by December 1868; to Augusta, IS
miles, by January 1870; to Eau Claire, 81,
August; to Menominee, 10, last January
to Hudson, 156, Nov. 28th, 1871.
For two and a half years previous to May
last, the M. e ST. L. r. r. used the road
on shares. The road cost nearly three and
a quarter millions of dollars, or about TWEEN
ty thousand per mile. 1t has nine engines
six coaches, four baggage, fifty fiat, and
eighty box cars. 1t will shorten the time
between St. Paul & Chicago full five hours.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-16

WHAT is the matter over at Duluth :?
Such frantic screaming and shrieking as
has been going on in their papers for some
weeks about Superior Somebody has been
hurt by something or other. From the pro-
longation of the walls Of late, we fear the
worst. Sandringham is nowhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-31
HE Army Commissions Hubbuh- Am
England.
Daring nank R~bberv.

OLkvfLAnD, o., July 3i--A bold robbery was
committed last Saturday at the house OF Luther
r. Gay, about six miles from Medina Mr.. CAV
vas Al home alone, while the rest OF the family
were attending picnic. While In the Garden
alone ne wsf addressed by two stranger one OF
whom had Q poiicemanF star ON his breast,
ana pointed pistol st Gays head while
me Other said, arrest you in the name Of the
United States ~ counterfeiter," at the same
time putting Gays hands In irons The robbers
TOOK him 70 the house, blindfolded him, and
demanded the keysto the safe, which they being
unable 20 md, blew the safe open with powder
and robbed II OF $500 In u. \. bon1s, and seven
thousand dollars IN bills The robbers then
made their escape.
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TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR
This Afternoons Dispatches:
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS
IHE NEW YORK DISASTER.


NV YORK, July si-ThOusands OF peonie
~ oouereeated arcund Bellevue Hospital thu
,ar esger 70 hear Of some fricnds supposed
large force cf police are engaged an prr-Fry-
ing order amid the general rush sr> xcitemeus
' ~ .ne 10Y ooeles brought 20 Bellevue Hospital
their friends Tor irtsrment Nine ~ IN t,odi,s,
are still az the hospital They havr les.D reco.,
niEed and win be removed to-day. In he
Morgue there are eleven victims OF the exnlo~
SION SIN unrecognized. on one slab AZ ,he
bodies % q woman and tyo children, on sDosl,e,
slab Il woman and child. and ON another
the bodies present. frightful appearance, for
IN addition 20 the fact that fIef are swollen
and the FEATURES extorted BY water. thev
have I'm most cases been terribly scalded
Since early this morning q regular stream OF
People have been passing In column Gle in and
out OF the mcrgue either from curiosity % Wit
dead lying there, or with the painful interest OF
trying, and yet fearful OF recognition among
the yet unknown victims the feature OF a frien
or relative. There are about - injured victim
o. the explosion I'm ward % Bellevue Hospital
The surgeons state that at least Onehalf OF thesa
are beyond recovery. At nine o CLOCK this morn
ing the body OF Matilda Nelson, syed5 wear
Island ferry and removed 30 the station-hous
DkATH or ANoTHER VICTIM.
INV YORK, JulySl.-DePuty Shenff Madden
the explosion yesterday, died this morning, =
OTHERS OF THK DEAD
NV YORK, July S1.--At n O'Clock this morn-
the water al the Staten Island ferrv and ser, -
the morgue. The following is a hist of fhosS
who died az the Center street stafion-house IT.
morning: George Elrssser and Louisa Elrasser.
- LIST avenue; and an unknown girl months
oid' md three men not yet identifed.
LATER.
k1fsy mine Deaths; One Hundred ana
f0rty.tW0 Wounded.
INV YORK, July s1s-The deaths thu< far hv
the ferryboat explosion yesterday humber 81
injured ~. The members Of the Syracuse deli
egauon are Gil doing well Crowds coneregated
curing the morning around the Center street
hospital, where many OF the Injured arr lvin.,
The public interest as 20 the full extent OF Tie
terrible disaster h on the increase and The er-
p,oelon n the theme Of conversation among an
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SPECIAL NOTICES.


IN OLD RYE AND BOURBON WHISTLES
BRAEDIEs, GINS, &C.,
q the following brands, viz:-family. Nectar
DO; Bowler, DO; Ola Grew :, do, IS do. baker,
d., de-: Pine Appls, ,trectihedl sl.9 do.
hehnessey, 1884. s! do; do, is4e, $40 do; Otard
Dupuy CO.. 1855, $40; Californis Brandy, % do
Otd Tom Gin, S2E, Cocktail Bitters, Blackberry
Brandy. Liberal discount TO the trade.
C. GAUTIER,
Proprietors of the Native w Inc Bitters,
myu 1917 and 1919 Penn'a avenue.