Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-25
THE MERCHANTS.
They Have a Little Psw-WOw-The Gus.
MOuse Prospects, and Through
Trade from the New Madrid
Country.

Napoleon Hill, always intellectual
looking, was especially Illuminated
when be sat in the western window of
the hall Of the Chamber Of Commerce
yesterday afternoon. A great stream of
brilliant sunshine deluged the rear of
his Uranium and flowed down over his
forehead, a glowing, golden Niagara,
until his face vas resplendent with the
Swallowed radiance of the setting sun.
stray sunbeams were tangled in with
his golden locks, and the members of the
commercial body, as they sauntered in
and lazily lOunged about the paartment,
could hardly summon energy enough to
vote aye or nay. OF course no speeches
were made, and the conduct Of the illus
trious body was eminently practical.
BRONSON BAYLdsS.
After reading the minutes, Mr.. Trous-
dale, the Secretary, presented the fol-
lowing significant note from Bronson
Bayliss:
Hon. r. A. Pinson, President Chamber of
Commerce, Memphis:
l have taken charge of the govern
ment bonded warehouse for one year,
and now most earnestly appeal to the
merchants of Memphis to sustain it,
otherwise it will necessarily be closed,
in which event Memphis Is no longer a
port Of entry, and no appropriation will
be made by Congress for a custOmhouse,
postotfice, etc. To the importing mer-
chants permit me to beg you to do all
you can, and you can support it if you
will. In consideration of charging
nothing for my services, many of the
public-spirited merchants, seeing the
danger we are in, have Unidentified me
against loss, but the main object should
be to Indemnity Memphis. Believing
you will al preciate the motive and OBJ
ject in view, and come to the relief of
all interested, | presume it is unneces-
sary to say more Goods can now come
through in bond. With due respect,
B. BAfLISS.
Messrs. Higbee and 1. NJ. Hill were
appointed a committee to define plans
for the accomplishment of MI. Bayliss's
beneticent purposes.
MAJOR vyICKs's SCHEME-HIs PRACTI-
CAL WISDOM.
A letter was presented written by
President Wieks, of the Memphis and
Charleston road, in which he urged the
necessity for the adoption of measures
by which the corn crop Of the current
year produced in the vicinity of Cairo
may be diverted from the ordinary route
to the Southeastern States. 1t is only
necessary, as President Wicks assures
us, to induce the Memphis and st.
Louis Packet Company, the Elevator
Company, and the Memphis and
Charleston, and other roads, to CO.
operate, establishing a through route
over which this grain, in bulk I'M
broken, may be transferred from
New Madrid and its vicinity "a Charles
ton, Selma, Augusta, and Mobile. Corn
is now worth not far from the Mobile
and Ohio road, in Southern Mississippi
and Alabama, one dollar and seventy
five cents per bushel, and by this process
of c%heapening freights Memphis may
become a great benefactor to these half
starved, fearfully taxed and plundered
people. All the Eastern roads will at
once find their way through the city,
in accordance with contracts with the
eityf to the elevator. and new life and
energy during these hot months will be
infused into the business activity of
Memphis. A committee, Messrs. Gay,
Coreoran, and Brown, were instructed
to consult the railroad and steamboat
04o AAahA6CAo anu AGBOAt
at once to a called meeting
Of the Chamcer of Commerce
A HARD CASE.
1t seems that during the war, Ruel
HOugh, a loyal person, and addicted to
collected revenue on cotton, and
had bondsmen who were not so loyal
Ruel didn't settle with the government,
there being a~deficiency of some twenty
thousand dollars in his accounts, q def
perhaps the smallest ever known
in any carpetbagger's settlement with
the government. If Ruel were allowed
to charge twelve ard a half cents for
marking and handling cotton, there
would be no deficit; and this was the
charge at the time, so it is
proven by many affidavits. The Cham
Der of Commerce, therefore, ask the
government to deal leniently with Col
1nel Hough and his securities, as with
1ther agents employed as he was, that
hey may be released from this unlocked
or liability. The Chamber assented to
he justice of the appeal, and Ruel's
e~ountenance may be less rueful when he
ices what the Memphis merchants have
lone.