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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-18

A lawyer on the side OF the defense in
the will case now occupying so much Of
the public attention, went out of his
way to stigmatiZe the APPEAL by indi
rection, as the subsidized organ of the
dead wOman's brother. OF course his
inuendo, base and baseless, fell 10 the
ground. We venture to say that not
even he believed that a great organ OF
public opinion could be dwarfed to the
littleness of any individual, however
honest the case or urgent the plea. He
knows better. But because the APPEAL
manifested proper interest in the dis
appearance of Mrs. Green at the
time of that mysterious event, and
could see and point out the cloud
that hung over his client, he
thought it necessary to go out Of his
way to discredit the journal whose de-
termination to ferret this case has never,
we regret TO say, been properly seconded
by our authorities. This having failed,
the APPEAL and all the surmises and
theories in this case, which it has from
time to time published, are more firmly
in the public confidence. The
questions, then, will be revived: what
was the manner of Mrs. Green's final
taking ofFo'' A" Was she murdered in
cold blood for the sake Of property that
was not hers to give away, or was she
permitted by the friends to whom she
devised this property Of her last hus-
bands first wife, to take her departure
from their home in a demented condi-
ton in the hope that she would end a
life Of which she had long complained as
a burden?' These are the blood
curdling questions that are now
passing from lip to lip, and these are to
be answered and satisfied by the pres
snt inquiry. We hope, for the credit Of
our city, that they will not be permitted
to rest by any settlement in the Probate
Court, but that the Grand Jury viii sum-
mon all the parties, and subject them to
a rigid examination touching the death
if dead of Mrs. Green. Our lawyer
friend may yet, as a good citizen, thank
The APPEAL for the unpurchased energy !
Il has displayed in behalf of Mrs. Green;
for we shall continue to prosecute our
inquiries relative to her disappearance. /
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THE ARKANSAS sENATORSHIP.
From the sandusky lOhioj Register

From the Sandusky Ohio Register.
Since Memphis confesses a deep inter
est in the course of political events in
Arkansas, we present the following
from the Helena Clarion: Recent
advices from Arkansas indicate that
Colonel 5. w. Dorsey, formerly
of this city, will be the successor Of
Senator Rice in the Senate of the United
States. Colonel Dorsey is presented as
the only candidate from the eastern
section of the State, the candidates
against him being all residents of Little
Rock, which has a representative in
Senator Clayton. AS a measure Of jus
tice, the eastern portion Of the State
should have the Senator. Colonel Dor
sey is closely identified with the ma
terial interests of that section. He is
giving his entire time, energies and
capital to the development of the east
ern counties, and the construction Of
the Arkansas Central railroad, running
from Helena west to Little Rock, the
great cotton region. Colonel Dorsey
is a snrewd and able business
man, possessed of far more culture
and experience of men and things than
the average Senator from the South. He
is withal a thoroughly reliable Republi-
can, and has been from the organization
of the party. His social qualities are
remarkable, and give him influence pos
sessed by few men, even on long and
friendly acquaintance. Knowing per-
sonally the other gentlemen mentioned
as candidates, we think it no disparage-
ment to the best Of them to say Colonel
Dorsey possesses qualities and advan-
tages which give him the seat in prefer
ence to any one Of his competitors. His
success will be very gratifying to his
friends in Ohio, and we may assure the
people OF Arkansas, will reflect no dis
credit upon them.
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TRADE.

The smallpox has run its course, has
"played out, " and the scare which its
presence, created only in the breasts OF
very timid and easily excited people, has
died out. Business, which had been
threatened BY it, has resumed its full
sway again, and merchants are looking
up hopefully. Our country friends need
have no fears now. Memphis is herself
again. The smallpox and the epizootic
have dwindled out, and only here and
there are our reporters able to hear of a
sporadic case of either. This intelligence
is reliable. The APPEAL, which be-
lieves in dealing in truth in the face OF
unmerited abuse, when another state Of
facts existed, did not fail to say sOein
the interest Of the people. 1t is now
equally prompt, and has great pleasure
in announcing that the pestilent disease
has abated, and that there never was a
time when an usually healthy city was
more so. This was evidenced yesterday
and the day before in the increased BUSH
ness on all our streets, and augmented
lists of travellers at our several hotels.
Our merchants and dealers are ready for
the holidays, now nearly upon US, and
we hope country dealers and others will
lose no time 10 availing themselves OF
sur market, never better supplied with
goods Of all kinds than at present. We
justly claim to be as cheap, and in some
a cheaper market than any
other in the Southwest, and offer es-
pecial inducements to buyers at this
season.
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The Commissioner Of Revenue for
shelby county filed half a dozen more
bills in the Chancery Court yesterday,
by which he seeks judgment for the
State against property upon which the
past due taxes are unpaid. Under de-
crees of the court, this property viii be
sold, and a good title vested in the
purchaser, under IN act Of the last Leg
stature. This will be severe on land
owners who are delinquent. They can
only avoid these consequences by a
speedy redemption of their lands before
the Chaneery Court acts. The Commits
sioner is performing his duty energeti-
cally and faithfully. He and his attor-
ney are working steadily at the BUSH
ness, perfecting half a dozen or more
bills daily. AS we said before, the Com
missioner has no authority to advertise.
He goes quietly at his work, and the
first thing a delinquenttax-p knows,
he gets Subpoena TO answer" and
the next thing, his property is sold to
pay taxes, costs and charges. This sale
will not be like ordinary sales Of land
for taxes heretofore made. 1t will con-
Ter a good title, and the land viii pass
from the present owner forever. This
is an important matter to property
holders in the county and city. A man
who knows his name to be on the books
Of the Commissioner ought to redeem at
once, and save costsO court and charges.
The Commissioner is not authorized to
pay anything to advertise these sales,
The good Legislature proposed to take
what is known as snap judgments upon
the people; but in this, as in many
other cases of like character, the press
intervenes, gratuitously, to serve those
who do nothing to serve the press. In
fact, the Legislature is particularly par
simonious. Litigants, witnesses and
lawyers are saved thousands and thou
sands annually by gratuitous publica-
tons made by the newspapers Of this
city. It is none of the business Of pub
fishers to announce daily the list OF
cases set for trial. 1t costs Memphis
publishers many thousand dollars annu-
ally, and only the smallest number Of
those who sustain newspapers are inte-
rested in this mass Of formal matter read
by none save lawyers and litigants.
Impelled by a sense of duty to those
who, in many instances, are about 70
lose their homes unwiUtingly, through
legal processes Of which they are never
notified by advertisements, We make
this publication, calling public attention
TO the action Of State Tax CommissiOner
Anderson. See him at once.
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TWO TRIBUNEs.


The New York Tribune, founded, and
maintained in great part, by the genius
and ability Of Mr. Greeley, has, by the
-arms Of sale, to be found in another
column, passed from the hands of those
10 whom Mr.. Greeley had left it in
rust to be continued by them under the
line OF pelicy marked out by him, and
which received the support Of three
million Of the American people, and is
hereafter to be run in the interest Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
and the Grant administration, with
COlfax for engineer-we will not say
gditor-in-chief. Before this end was
accomplished, the friends of Mr.. Greeley
made a very determined effort to hold
The paper in their hands, but owing to the
,reschery Of Sinclair, who seems to have
been only 100 eager to sell out TO the ad-
lninistration, they failed. The Tribune
will, under the new management, lose
all Of its distinctive features as great
Journal The men who have thus been
compelled 10 sell their stock were the
trusted, and some of them the beloved,
associates Of Mr.. Greeley, and generally
aoincided with him, drawn to him as
hey were originally by reason Of affinity
with and love for him and all the
chemes which he developed for the
public good. They vacate the premises
ia principle. They refuse TO be sold
..s part Of the stock in hand" They
were with their old chief in his
last great work Of peace and restoration,
and co-operated with him heartily, and
they will not now, for the sake Of money,
turn their backs upon those principles
aud write down what they so eonseien- 1
tiously wrote up. They strike their col
ors to superior forces, and march forth
unimpaired in principle. We honor
them for their course, and trust that in
any venture they may engage they will
have the support of all those who 50
willingly hOnored their lRmented chief
with even unavailing suffrages. That
Colfax has the ability to supply the
place so ably filled by Greeley, none
viii believe who remember the
one and know the other. That
he has ability to meet the demands Of
the parties who have helped him to the
TOO large chair Of Greeley, all will con-
cede. He can turn about and do just |
- " better than any man now in public /
life, and viii serve the " estem Union /
Telegraph Company and the Grant ad-
minisTauon with equal ease and facil- |
ity. He will turn his back on every
thing Greeleyish, and trim his sails to |
meet the paying breezes as they blow
favOrably for his employers, the great
telegraph corporation and the Grant adj
ministratiOn. he viii continue to smile
all over, and viii perhaps round a career
of Discrimination by at last cheating those
who now repOse in him confidence
born of the bargain and sale he so well
understands, and which he has re-
dueed to a fine art where it concerns
personally Schuyler Colfax, sometime
country editor in Indiana, representa-
tive IN the Legislature Of the Hoosier
State, later representative in Congress,
later still Speaker Of the House, and yet
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PATENTS.

To Southern inventors for the week
ending SOvember 10, 1872. Facts fur
nished by G.. S. Whitman & Co., solicit
tors of patents, Washington, D. c.:
1873, 0S2, reservoir cooking stove,to Mark
Curtiss and Lewis Z. Glow, st. Louis,
Missouri; 1873, 0S6, key way gauge, to
John Donaldson, Carondelet, Missouri;
1873, 1O6, machine for fitting the fronts
of boots and CATERS, to Thomas Lin
coin, st. Louis, Missouri; l33, l64, rock
ing-chair fan, Otto Matzke, Durant,
Mississippi; l33, 165, fence, to Harrison
McMUllen, Bstesville, Arkansas. 1885,
l66, burial case, to G. G. Morgan, Holly
Springs, Mississippi; 1878, bottle
packer, to Bobert T. Penick, st Joseph,
Missouri; 1913, lS7, plow, to Samuel G..
Baughn, Calhoun, Kentucky; 133, 1874,
saw filing machine, to George Blythe,
ChillicOthe, Missouri; 133, 205, pan for
pOaching eggs, to Mary NJ. Crutchfield,
Fayette county, Tennessee; 1873, 205,
medical compound for diarrhea, to,Anna
B. Dorman, Cape Girardeau, Missouri /;
133, 221, device for closing doors and
gates, to Samuel P. Griffin and B. Nor
gan Harrod, New Orleans, Louisiana
l33, 282, saw swage, to Samuel B. Will
liams; 1873, 2S9, apparatus for eyapOrating
brine, to John McGrew, RavenswOOd,
West Virginia.
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all the old houses, from the William
Penn Building to the Apprentices Lii
brary, with its quaint inscription desig-
mating our republic as an empire in the
fifth year Of its age, sparing nothing
but Independence Hall. And yet these
good and patriotic Philadelphia people,
when contemplating these purposes Of
worse than vandalism, would have US
take stock and invest money in a great
Philadelphia Centennial Celebration Of
Independence Day. They destroy build
ings hallowed by the hottest recollec-
tons of patriotism, because money de-
mands the sacrifice, and yet would have
US sacrifice money in gathering mighty
multitudes in Philadelphia in order to
perpetuate patriotic memories. There is
manifest absence of consistency in the
conduct of Philadelphia on the one
hand and the tenderly patriotic profess
sions of Philadelphia on the other, and
it is not strange that the little ten mill
ion specializing joint company is fail
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-18

AN ADSnRER Of Horace Greeley re-
siding in Arkansas, suggests that a do
nation of all the old type in printing
offices throughout the country be made
and cast into a Horace Greeley monu-
ment. A country editor says of it:
''The idea is a good one, and we wonder
If it did not come from the fruitful, if
eccentric, brain of Edwin Bancroft
We think differently. Type metal is too
soft material with which to transmit the
likeness of the good Horace. We prefer
bronze; and since a committee has been
appointed to receive subscriptions for
the purpose of erecting such a moDu-
ment, We hope all his friends and ad-
mirers hereabouts will contribute toward
it what they can, and promptly.
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NORTH AND SOUTH AND GREE
LEE,S WILL

The difference between a Northern
and Southern community, is well
illustrated by surprising Greeley's
daughters residents of Memphis, in
stead of New York. They claim, IN
der a paper known to have been written
by Mr.. Greeley on the ninth ultimo,
when perfectly sane. Forgery in this
case is wholly impossible. 1t was signed
and attested subsequently, in a supposed
lucid interval. A lot of very good peo-
pie set up and claim requests under an
older paper, written when Greeley's
estate was much richer than when he
died, or when the last viii and devise
was executed. In New York, the legal
rights Of parties to this contest are
gravely discussed, and the question will
be adjudicated by the courts on the
naked questions Of law. In Memphis, no
sane man would think ofinstituting such
proceeding against such defendants.
Especially would Tribune stakeholder
and manager and the Children's Aid
Society trustees, beware ofentering upon
a contest with Ida and her sister
Gabrielle, to rob them of the wreck Of
Greeley's fortune. Wouldn't such
plaintiffs win the traditional tar and
feathers2
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THE RAILROAD CONVENTION Al
PARIS ON THE NINETEENTH.

We look with much interest to the
proceedings Of the Railroad Convention,
to be held at Paris tomorrow. 1t is the
initial step of great enterprise, which
will bring wealth to our State. Paris is
situated within one hundred miles of the
finest coal regions Of Illinois, and not
distant more than seventy miles from
the rich iron deposits of Humphreys
and Hickman counties, Tennessee. The
ore in these beds makes better pig
metal than the ore fromthe Iron Noun
tain or Pilot Knob, in Missouri.
With this road completed, there is no
reason why Paris may not become one
Of the largest manufacturing towns in
the State. The country around
Paris is celebrated as a grain-growingr re-
gion, where provisions may be raised in
abundance. With cheap coal from Hi
nois, cheap ore from Humphreys and
Hickman, and cheap provisions raised
ia the country surrounding Paris, we
may confidently look for the erection
there of large manufacturing establish
ments. Being on the line of the Mem
phis and Louisville road, only one hun
bred and thirty miles from Memphis,
the growth and prosperity Of Paris will
greatly benefit this city. Memphis, as
distributing center, needs manufacture
ing establishments at all interior towns.
The Nashville and Louisville Railroad
Company, owning the road from Mem
phis to Paris, should take a deep inter-
est in this new line from Jacksonville
to Cairo. 1t will augment greatly
the business Of the Memphis
and Louisville road Memphis
feels a deep interest in all these new
lines Of railway, and, if wisely govern
ed, would adopt such a policy as will
cause them TO contribute to her own
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
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ONE Of the most important of the
Southern railroads is rapidly approach
ing completion, namely, the Atlanta
and Richmond Airline. This line goes
by the Richmond and Danville railroad
to Danville, and thence to Charlotte.
North Carolina, from which point to
Atlanta the road is new, and saves a
considerable distance. Eighty miles
have been opened on the Atlanta end,
and about sixty miles on the northern or
Charlotte end. The residue is so far adj
vanced that the whole line will be in
operation by next spring. Very great
commercial results are expected from
this road, when finished.
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The Bostonians are somewhat exer-
eised over the proposed demolition of
the Old South Church. Those who think
that the structure should be preserved
maintain that it is a venerable relic Of
the Revolutionary struggle. The pro-
gressive, improvement people sneer at
the very idea Of making sacred memen-
toes OF old piles Of brick erected when
the Third George Of Great Britain ruled
over this land. The people Of the Club"
must settle this matter for themselves
On the contrary, in Philadelphia the
citizens are ready to sweep into oblivion
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Miss Virginia Vaughan, a native of
the State whose name she bears, is the
recipient of lyceum hOnOrs in Boston.
Some six months ago, at the request of
Hilliard, Fields, and other scholarly per-
sons, she delivered, in Horticultural
Hall, a lecture upon The Develop
ment of Poetry" which met with
marked approval. Recently she has re-
peated the lecture to a crowded audi
.ence, at the archaeological Institute,
where she achieved a sail more crafty
ing success, no less a critic than James
T. Fields being enthusiastic in her
praise. Miss Vaughan viii deliver the
same lecture during the present season
in Washington, New York and Phiia-
delphia. Personally the lady is a tall
and SLENDER brunette of attractive and
striking presence. She is favorabIy
known to the literary world by her trans
nationals from the French, among
which may be mentioned 1.-THE Snow
Man, "Manprat and Antonia,n by
George Sand, and "Sailingon the Nile"
by Laurent Laporte.
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and the Board Of School Visitors should
be fully advised on all these points be-
fore any further use of these bonds. Our
city finances are in a very confused
condition, and unless we call halt
now, may become tangled beyond the
Instability Of amendment.
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Boston is outraged again. The other
day, if we may believe one of Boston's
public men, the modern Athens was Of
Tended because Bret Harte did not lee
Dion Boueicault, whodid not play when
pointed by poets and play-actors; but it
is far saddeT to be 30 easily "iDsulted'
must get over this if she ever expects to
be q big city,
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THERE are some doubts as to the
legality of the bonds recently issued to
the public schools by the City Govern
ment, and investors are becoming
alarmed. The questions asked are:
Under what law have these bonds been
issued? and whether the question Of
their issuance should not have been
submitted to the people? Are they
gold-bearing bonds of the issue
made some time ago, several
thousand Of which were hypothe-
Gated for money to meet the last
interest paid by the city? The General
Council should inquire into this,
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later Vice President of the United
States. From the hour and day on
which he entered public life he has
never failed to practice the canny
maxim of the Scotch and save the dirty
until he had the clean water in the
house. And so, farewell to the Tribune
Of Horace Greeley; enter that of Colfax,
Grant and the telegraph monopoly.
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Mr.. J. D. REED, for many years one
of the editors of the Baltimore Sun, died
yesterday, in his sixty-first year, after a
protracted illness. MIR. Reed was but
little known beyond his city and State,
but there he was much honored and be-
loved, as an earnest, honest journalist.
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For Governor,


A UNITED STATES SENATOR.
For Lieutenant Governor,
THE NEGRO UNITED STATES COLLECTOR
OF THE PORT OF SHREVEPORT.
For President Of the Senate,
THE MULATTO SURVEYOR OF THE PORT
OF NEW ORLEANS.
For Speaker Of the House OF Representatives,
THE UNITED STATES POSTMASTER AT
NEW ORLEANS.
For Auditor OF the State,
THE ASSISTANT TREASURER OF THE
UNITED STATES.
For Senators and Members Of the House OF
Representatives
IGNORANT AND CORRUPT
NEGROES,
"A majority of the latter holding subordinate
offices in the Collectors and Assessors De
psrtments Of the United States Goyernmentl
This is the government which has
been forced upon the people Of the State
of Louisiana, through an order in chan
Gerry of a petty judge, enforced by the
arms of the Federal Government. If
such transactions can obtain their ap-
prevail and support; if the precipitate
and evidently ignorant sanction given
by the authorities at Washington be
sustained by them, then is the empire
in the place of the once
proud republic, and Louisiana converted
from a rich and prosperous State into a
negro province, ruled by the satrsps Of
the central authorities.
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THE New Orleans Times summarizes
theconduct Of the Grant-Kellogg faction
in Louisiana as villainous in conception
and practice beyond anything that the
wearisome history of reconstruction af-
fords, and says that the immediate eff
fects of the several acts and iu.eTlOcu-
tory order of a petty United States
Judge and the support of that order by
the Grant administration are the install
lation over the State of Louisiana Of the
e,IIo,1,inor sroy-arr,r,o art.