Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-28

should retain the name Of FOy's Point,
She was, however, persuaded, not out o.
it, but to wait until the success of the
others should be known, which
amounted to the same. The feuds
growing out of these were very disered-
table, and L think considerable injustice
was done both to Graham and Furgu-
son, particularly the latter, who was a
much better man than some people gave
him credit for. He has told me many
incidents and anecdotes Of early times,
but failed TO write them out as he had
promised to do, and as / never dreamed
of turning historian, I have now but an
imperfect recollection of them, one OF
which I will, however, venture to re-
late.
a CURIOUS STORY.
1t was in the summer of 1881 that
a steamer, on her upward-bOund trip,
stopped at Wapanocha to wood, when a
young man went ashore and solicited
employment from FurgusOn, telling him
that he had been to New Orleans on a
fiatbOat and while returning on the deck
of the steamboat had the misfortune to
be robbed of all his money. FurgusOn
gave him a job of cutting cOrd-woOd, ut
which he worked until be had earned a
sufficient sum TO carry him to his home
in Illinois. During this time he
was an inmate of the Colonel's house.
This young mans name was Abraham
Lincoln, since, President of the United
States.
THE PROPHETS.
1 neglected to insert in its proper
place quite an important event in the
history of FOy's Point, which inspired
the idea of BODYBUILDING, and which
was the building of the great National
Ormilitary road from the Mississippi riv-
er to Little Rock, and ultimately to the
frontier, which at that time was looked
upon as a greater undertaking than
a half dozen railroads would be at the
present time, and in fact, what General
Gaines was urging, and probably would
have succeeded in turning into a rail-
road. But government undertakings
move slowly, and particularly was it
the ease in that instance. 1t dragged
heavily along for some six or eight
years; detached portions of it were fin
ished while the intervening parts We're
wholly impossible. 1t was, however, pro-
crossing, and in short time would have
been finished. If the government
was slow Arkansas was fast, or at least
some of her citizens who wished seats
in Congress were, and she was fastened
to the Union full thirty years before her
time. The prevailing theory then was
that the government could make no in-
ternal improvements within the States,
and thus this important undertake
ing, and other interests of the
people fell a sacrifice to the selfish
ambition of a few heartless politicians,
THE DUELs.
You are anxious to know something
about the duels which have at different
times been fought on the Arkansas
shore opposite Memphis. This l find
the mosI difficult part Of my task, never
having witnessed any of them, and
although l am familiar with the causes
that led to most of them, yet they are
generally of such a nature that their re-
Yiewal might be very improper. Still, l
will endeavor to crafty you as far as
may seem consistent with propriety.
PHILIP S. WHITE AND GUS. YOUNG.
The first that 1 remember, though /
have an indistinet recollection of a pre-
vious one, was between Gus Young and
Philip S. White. They took two pops
at each other. The first proved a clear
miss: atthe second each received clothes
wounds, when their seconds and other
friends, fearing that the theory that
I" practice makes perfect" might prove
true i'm their case, and that the next
shot might spoil the hide, enterposed
and settled the matter. Francis Angus
tus Young was the eldest of four broth
ers, sons of Captain Emanuel Young,
one of the first, oldest and most enter
merchants Of the Bluff City. He
had commanded the old United States,
the mammoth steamer and wonder Of
her day, that hOurished Just fifty wears
After his death his sons continued
the business under the style of +. A. &
I. Young & Co. Gus was a handsome.
noble, whOle-souled fellow, and TIE lead
ing spirit of the fast young men of his
day. He had his weakness, which
brought him to an early grave. Philip
S. White was a tall, poTtly and remark
ably fine-lOOking man, a Kentuckian by
birth, a lawyer by profession, and 4
great wit and brilliant orator. Although
quite dissipated at the time of the duel,
he reformed and distinguished himself
as a temperance lecturer and Most
Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Tenn
peranee of the United States, but he ul-
timately fell, and finally died a drunk
ard. Doctor D.. j. Aud, Whites second,
who, unlike his principal, was a very
small man, feeling agrieved at some
thing that transpired, challenged sue