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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-29

| VERSAILLES, November 2S.-In the
Assembly this afternoon, the debate on
| the report of the Committee on Address
was opened. NJ. Grery read the resolu-
ton which embOdies the recommends
tons of the majority report. NJ. Dafore,
Minister Of Justice, made speech de-
tending the President, and counselling
| concIhatiOn. The Ministers, he said,
were already responsible. They had
never sheltered themselves behind the
President. He objected to the pro-
posal to deprive the President of
the right to speak in the Assembly. He
compared the position Of the President
of the United States, who had the right
to veto laws, and whose powers were so
largely increased during the vacations
Of Congress, with that of President
Thiers. The Minister added that while
he deprecated the exclusion of the Presi-
dent from participation in the debates
of the Assembly, the government was
willing to consent to it if compensatory
privileges were granted. He concluded
by submitting a resolution providing for
the appointment of committee of thir-
ty, whose duty it shall be to draw up a
law regulating the public powers and
prescribing the conditions of ministerial
responsibility.
NJ. Baltic moved that the resolution
proposed by the Minister of Justice be
referred without debate to the Commit
tee on Address, and that the committee
be instructed to report upon it within
an hour.
The motion was adopted and the sit |
ting of the Assembly suspended for that |
time to allow the committee to prepare |
the report on which it is now at work. |
LATER-The Committee on Addesss |
was in session three and a-half hours. |
The sitting Of the Assembly was not re-
sumed until half.past six this evening. |
Nj. Batbie then announced that the .
Committee had rejected Minister Du-
faUres resolution, and was determined
to stand by its own resolution, the i'm
mediate consideration Of which was de-
manded.
The decision Of the committee, coupled
with the demand for immediate debate,
caused a profound sensation in the
Chamber.
Minister Defaure in reply said he
should insist on a consideration of the
resolution he had submitted, and asked
ior an adjournment of the sitting until
tomorrow.
Amid much confusion and uproar sew
eral votes were taken, wherein it appeared
hat the Right and Right Center were
mited and well organized, but the ad-
0urnment was ultimately considered
and the sitting brought TO a close. Du-
ing these proceedings the excitement
n the Chamber and outside was intense.
rhe Hall was completely filled, and
arge crowds gathered in the lobbies,
and streets. The situation was
serious, and it is impossible
. predict what turn events will take to-
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ENGLAND.

LONDON, November 2S.-It was re-
ported in Paris last evening, that COM
promise would be made between the
President and Assembly, based on the
acceptance of immediate ministerial re-
sponsibility for Theirs, and an agree
ment on part Of thesConservative depu-
ties considers questions Of constitutional
reforms afterward. The ulmors of the
compromise excite the suspicious of the
Left Center. A special from Paris to
the Times, says it is rumOred that Thiers
will appeal to the people. The city is
becoming excited, and evident irritation
is in quarters inhabited by the working
men, over the majority report of the
committee. An address from the writer
of the report, NJ. Balbie, is already very
unpopular in these parts Of the city. A
special dispatch to the Daily telegraph
states that General Manteufel, COM
manding the German army of Occupa-
ton in France, has received orders to
concentrate his forces in case of certain
contingencies. The situation at Yer
sailles is unchanged. The opinion gains
ground that the compromise can be eff
fected. The Provinces Overwhelm
Thiers with words of cheer and prom
ises Of support.
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THE CHAIRS OF SOCIETY.

Somewhere in his "Dunciad," Pope
speaks of being
"Stretchd on the rack Of a too easy chair"
but we may feel quite certain that at the
time at which he made the remark, the
poet was not visiting in a parlor fur
nished as many modern paTlors are.
Not that our company rooms are desti-
tute Of elabOrately cushioned and spa
eious seats, but these are generally for
show, for occasional use by the family.
or for the ease of some favored guest.
Even at a little evening gathering it
seldom happens that all the company
can drop into easy tduleuiis, or sofas.
The seats that the majority Of the party
must occupy are these instruments of
torture generally known as reception
chairs These are sold in sets,
they are Of cheap or costly
material, and may be of elaborate or
plain designs, but always, and without
fail, they are better adapted to look at
than to sit on. From some Feason-oc-
cult 10 the ordinary mind-these chairs
are so made as TO require a certain
amount Of physical effort on the part of
those sitting on them. There is no such
thing as resigning ones self to their sup
port-it was not intended, and is impos-
sible. On such a chair one must be
little independent. He must support his
back, or he must balance himself, or he
must do something for himself-it will
not do to depend upon the chair. The
backs Of these chairs are gener-
ally bitter enemies of ease-as
much so, in their way, as hair
cloth shirts or pebbles in the shoes.
They have either a carvaA ornament
which irritates ones lumbar uerte5ros. or
cross-bar which cuts into the dofsal Dor
tion Of the spine, or knobs which indent
bis shOulder-blades, or vertical or diago-
nal rods which render him miserable all
aver his back. And the seats are always
too small or too hard or too peaked or |
too slippery 10 allow of any considera- |
lions of comfort. And yet these are the /
chairs which we purchase expressly for
our company!
Is it not possible that a set Of chairs
may be tasteful and graceful and appro-
pirate to the furnishing of a parlor, and /
yet have comfortable backs and seats to
lit upon?
But if the chairs were easier people
night stay too long After all there is
in this consideration, which
nay be at the bottom of the whole mat
-Scribner's for December.
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THE FIRE FIEND.
Disastrous CenAsgrsti0n in New York
Lima EdHards's 9heater and Several
Play-HOuses and Music Halls
Consumed.

New YORK, November 2s.-Late last
night Browns soap works, on Second
avenue, with the adjoining buildings,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, twenty
five thousand doliaIz
About half-past two o. O'clOck this morn
ing, fire broke out in a building at No.
7l6 Broadway, the frOnt Of which is oe-
cupied as q shoe store. The fire spread
rapidly 10 the adjoining buildings in the
rear Of Nos. IA, 7l6, us, 10 and 722.
The front two OF these were known a.
Lima Edwards's Theater. last occupied bv
Kelly & Icons minstrels, and the Arion
music hall. The light material of these
houses fed tie fire, and ii spread rapidIv
through them. The extension Of Nos.
7l4 and 7l6, the main building of which
j. an old style double mansion.
with a heavy SolOnnade entrance. burned
flereely threatening the destruction Of
the whole edifice. The occupants Of the
old mansion appeared to have fed on
the first alarm. Through this building
the firemen were enabled to bring water
to bear on the fire, but it was soon ap-
parent that their efforts must be con-
fined to the saving Of the front build
ings. Behind these the fire roared like
hundred blast furnaces, and sent up
volumes OF smoke, and myriads of blnz-
ing fragments and sparks, which were
carried over Lafayette Place and Fourth
avenue. The firemen also exerted
themselves 70 save the row Of buildings
occupied by the Columbia Law School.
An immense crowd soon assembled
near the scene, being attracted
by the light The police also gath
cred in force, and kept the crowd back.
The scene from Broadway was thrill
ing. The rear walls of the buildings
looked Ike sheets Of flame. It appears
that the FIRE was discovered by some
firemen who were returning from the
Second avenue fire, and while the alarm /
was sounded the doors Of the infamous !
AriOn concert saloon were broker open |
and five persons rescued, including a /
sick lady, all Of whom were paralysed /
with fear, and were taken to hotel 4
Before water could be brought to bear. I
the entire destruction of Lima Ed 1
warcs's theater was foreshadOwed. i
Among the occupants Of the build
ings on Broadway were Colonel Aston
Brown, dramatic agency, Menken
5Oot-maker, and furniture dealer. In
less than an hour after the first alarm
the theater was il ruins, while the ad-
Joining buildings in the rear were total
" destroyed. About three O'Clock the
1ames began TO subside. The total loss
Till exceed one hundred thousand dol
ars. The theater was occupied by Kel-
y 4 Icons minstrel troupe, who had
legun the season on Monday last. The
AriOn was closed by the police during
he raids, but on Tuesday night the girls
gain made their aDDearsuce prODabIv
he disaster Of last night was owing to
heir carelessness. Colonel Browns loss
vii be about ten thousand dollars.
he other losses are light excepting
bat Of the theatrical managers.
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WASHINGTON, November 2s.-There
will probably be, on Lake Miehi-
gan, and thence to the mid
die and upper Ohio valley, ocea-
sional snow and partially cloudy
weather, low temperature and a rising
barometer; in the Northwest, thence
over Wisconsin and to the lower Ohio
valley, northwesterly winds, high ba-
ronleter, very low temperature and gen
orally clear weather; In the Middle and
Eastern States, southerly to southeast
erly winds, cloudy weather, lower tenn
peratdre and occasional snow; ir the
Gulf and South Atlantic States, north
erly TO westerly winds, cold and par
italy cloudy weather, with rising ba-
rometer. Warning signals are ordered
for Milwaukee, Chicago, Grand Haven,
Detroit, TOleGo, Cleveland and Buffalo.
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THE TEXAS PACIFIC.
Why General Buel's Report on Narrow
Gauge Railways Was Suppressed.

The Chicago Railt0ay ReUie,0 pub
lishes letter to the editor Of that paper
from General G.. p. Buell., in which he
says:
was, as you are probably aware. for
merly Chief Engineer Of the Texas Pacif-
ic railroad, which position took after as
sisting to place Marshal o. Roberts at
the head of the enterprise, with a view
To resigning the army. This position I
was forced to give up, after a years SER
vice, through the rascality and fraud of
this same Marshall o. Roberts, who.
many Of us learned to our sorrow, was
old in his profession. | was probably
one of the first in this country TO pub
lish under my signature pamphlet ad-
Vocatlng the narrow-gauge system of
railways for all new countries. After
ordering my report printed, Mr.. Roberts
ordered II suppressed, as he said, g until
ne got through with his fight with Tom
Scott
After my departure to Texas in con-
nectl0n with my duties as engineer, he
secretly sent a COPY of my suppressed
report to one Seymour, with a letter in-
viting an attack on it, which was made
public, while my report was still locked
up by his (RObert'sj orders. Mr.. Rob
erts afUerward denied his acts, and did
not authorize me as engineer Of the road
to answer the pamphlet Of Seymour.
IL has been well answered, however, by
Mr. Quetil since my return to duty in
the army. now inelOse you a COPY of
the same, which [ authorize you to use
as you may desire. You will see that
while | advocate the narrOw-gauge sys-
tenn strongly, do not favor as narrow
roads for trunk lines as the three feet
gauge. I think my reasons are good, /
and shall still adhere to my views until
l see more to convince me of nv error.
There cannot be more than two hum
dred dollars difference in the cost Der
mile between the three feet and the /
three feet six inch gauge and 1 do not 1
think first class road in every particu-
lar can be built narrower than three feet
six inch gauge. On this gauge passen-
ger coaches may with safety be built 4
having thirty inch wheels, which is /
three inches less than the wheels used |
On many broad-gauge roads.
The Texas Pacific railroad will never
develop more than a mineral country |
ior more than three-fourths ofiHIength.
hence, L still think it would have been
better for the company and the country
20 have built on the three feet six inch
gauge. In any event the narrow-gauge
'oad as system would be better than
he broad-gauge. For while the broad
gauge does not develop the country any
more than the other, it robs the stock
holders and original protector, and in
many cases only puts money in the
pockets of the immediate operator.
There is no doubt of the economy and
perfect success Of the narrow-gauge sys-
EN-, as has long since been proven, and
he quicker the country adopts the sys-
EN-, the quicker will broad-gauge roads
educe their gauges, and thus reduce
heir running expenses, and will not
'nly benefit the transporter and capital
st, but the producer, with more equal
.hances for the development Of the
low wild regions Of America.
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CUBA.

HAVANA, November 24.-The steam
er Pinero was lost Off the harbor, with, a
cargo Of cattle.
Advices from Hayti are to the tenth.
A proposition has been made 70 loan the
government three million dollars at
eighteen per cent. per annum.
The government Is apprehensive Of
trouble arising out OF the indemnity de-
manded by France.
The latest advices from San Domingo
report that the troops Of Baez killed
General John Lynch while the latter
was on Haytien territory.
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ST. LOUIS, November 2S.-Generals
Sheridan, RUeker, and Clark, and Col
onel Sheridan, returned from tour OF
inspection in the Indian Territory, and
left for Chicago to-day.
The barn of Garrett Miller, near Mat
tOon, Illinois, with carriages, agricultu-
raj implements, a quantity of corn and
hay, and fifty head of horses, were
burned Wednesday night. Loss fifty
thousand dollars and no insurance.
Cause incendiary.
Business men occupying the block
upon which the new Merchants Ex-
change is to be erected have been noti-
fied to vacate their premises by the first
Of January, when demolition of the
buildings will be commenced. In con-
nectiOn with this Improvement it is pro-
posed to procure the passage by the City
Council of an ordinance authorizing the
Of Third street from Locust
street to Chateau avenue.
To-day has been universally observed
as a holiday. All public offices have
been closed, and business generally sus-
pended. Services were held in most Of
the churches both morning and evening.
Immense crowds thronged the theaters
and balls, which were given in almost
every part Of the city. Unusual good or
Ter prevailed, scarcely an arrest having
leen made.
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Prof Andrews, of the Chicago Medi-
cal College, has been classifying the
medical facts contained in the census
reports of 1850 and 1870, and from these
he finds that consumption and cancer
are two diseases which are similarly
affected by and prevail in the same re-
giOns, and that the two laws governing
their prevalence are as follows: First,
these two diseases are abundant near the
sea, and diminish as you recede from it;
and second, at equal distances from the
sea, they prevail most at the north, and
diminish as you go south. From this It
follows that the best resort for a con-
sumptive or cancer patient Is aome point
which is st the same time as far south
and as far from the sea as possible,
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TELEGRAPHsC NOTES.

The Fire Department Of Philadelphia
propose to increase their fire apparatus.
A New Orleans telegram announces
that the horse plague Is rapidly increas-
ing in that city.
- Iielegraphic adviees from Milwaukee,
Wlseonslni state that the schooner Sou
Nenlr, lumber craft, was lost recently
near Reading, Michigan, with ell on
Hon. lchabod Corwin, judge Of the
Court Of Common Pleas of ne Cham.
paign Ohio district, and q prominent
citizen, died at UrbanA yesterday.
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MARRIED.

-. = -. - y - - An4o1-Al lne residence OF the
bride S mother, in New Orleans, on Wednes-
day, 18th inst, at three o'clock pm General
GiDEON j. PILLOW and Mrs. MARIE Z. ID,
TKIGG.
The bridal party left the Crescent City i'm
medlateiy after the ceremony was performed,
and arrived safely here last evening.
sPEED-JoNEs-At st. Peters Church, on
Thursday, 2Sth inst, by Rev. Father Carey.
Mr.. ROBERT a. SPEED and Miss MOLL1E NJ.
JONES, all Of Memphis.
INGRAM-WITT-At the Southern Hotel,
November q, 1872, by Rev. DR.. Slater, Mr.. WIN.
I. INGRAM and Mrs. NJ. j. W1Tr, all Of this
nitw
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ADDITIONAL MARKETS.

LONDON, 8 pm, November 2s.-
Specie in the Bank of England increased
q, $50, 900. Rate of discount in the
Bank of England reduced one per cent,
making it now six per cent. American
securities firm; 65s, old, 1T: 67s, 943:
lO-4Os, 974; new IS, S33; Erie, 42. Tai
low, ass; linseed oil, e33 los; turpentines,
4ls(G4ls Sd.
PARIS, November 2S. - Rentes 50
francs, 80 eentimes.
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DIED.

PAINE-On the morning Of the 2Sth inst
M PAINE, member OF the Senate Of Missis-
sippi.
HIS health had been declining for the last
five months under the influence Of chronic
diarrhea. His end was most peaceful and full
OF hope. Thus has departed a young man Of
most brilliant talents and requirements, be-
yond almost any of his age.
Holly Springs and jackson papers please
epnv
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THE dearth Of horse power is now as
ulinous to New Orleans internal traffic,
and 90 the cotton trade, as it was a few
days ago in Memphis. Dispatches last
night from the Crescent City were wheez-
INK with epizoote.
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Terrible Effects Of the Recsns Gales on
tire Lakes

DETROIT, MICH, November 2S.-The
gale which sutsided last night was a
severe one. The following disasters
were reported on Lake Michigan The
schooner Morning Star capsized and
ashore; one man was drowned. The
schooner SOuvenier ashore at Pent-
water; all hands lost; the captains
name is Crane. The schooner COslett is
a Total wreck at PeHtwater. At Macki-
nav it is cold and showing. Wind
sguthwes. Fresh ice making.
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GENERAL SUMMARY.


I SYRACUSE, n. Y. November 2s.--At
the Conference Of the State Tempe
rance Organization yesterday, ii was de-
cieed 70 present local prohibition and
other temperance measues to the next
Legislature.
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WASHINGTON, November est Is
certain that a quorum viii be present in
each house Of Congress on Monday,
when the President will communicate
his message.
The Secretary Of the Navy has finished
writing his report.
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CRIME AND ACCIDENT.


CONsGCCS, ONTARIO, November 2S.-
The bark Sarah Ann Nash was driven
ashore in a gale last hight, IN Wellers
Bay. Ii is feared that she IS a total loss.
She was owned by Dodge & Co, and
was bound from OswegO to Toronto.
All hands were saved. The vessel was
Insured
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nasss Of cold w...ass on Lake Nav,-

DETROIT, MICH, November 2s.-The
present cold snap has nearly closed nav
igatiCn. Steamers returned from Lake
Erie to-day reporting too much ice to
get through. Sandusky and Toledo
harbors are closed. The last boats for
the north leave here tonight. Saginaw
river is kept open to-day by running
irOnclad tugs up and down.
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CABLE CHRONICLES.


BERLIN, November 2S.-The official
journals concur in assuring Europe that
the German Government will respect
the viii of France IN her choice of a
form Of government aud election Of
statesmen to carry it on. Prussia has
not the slightest sympathy or partisan
ship for either Theirs or the Assembly.
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Probable FSo Esi9i Essgiss in EseaPins

Probable Fatal Results in Escaping
From = Burning building.
CINCINNATI, November 2S.-At a
fire in Louis Rufres' bakery, COving-
ton, tonight, james CraWley and his
son jumped from the third story to save
themselves, the former striking on his
head and receiving probably fatal in
iuries- The wife Of young Crawley and
three children were rescued from the
third story by the fremen. They were
in an unconscious condition, but were
soon restored, with the exception Of the
woman, who is IN a critical condition.
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TIE New York Sun, which reports
Father Burke's lectures in full, says that
no report, however exact, can afford
an adequate idea Of the vivid eloquence
OF this distinguished orator.
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san Francisco, November 28.-A
puvate meeting OF the trustees Of the
Diamond company Yesterday afternoon,
reported having taken measures to arrest
Arnold stack and others. Eminent
counsel have been engaged. The entire
credit 0e she exposure Is due Mr.. King.
who volunteered 10 20 the first time. and
was sent the second time. tits not gen
orally believed the parties Interested will
lose any such sums a. reported. STAN
toms great ruby Is declared soft parnef
and worthless. Javin says the cognDanv
which he belongs to still have gFest ex-
pectatons Of wealth from the diamond
fields, but that be was much mislead bv
the representations Of the Arnold stoet
Several companies adhere to their resolu-
ti1u to send prOspect0rs next spring TO
Arizona and Colorado.
CiOuzell, Louis, and Glass were an
pointed q committee Of inquiry In the
diamond frauds, with full power to act
for the company.
Thanksgiving was generally observed
by services in the churches. Business
syas suspended.
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Trustees Sale.

PY virtue of a Trust Deed made to me on
ID the 6th day Of October, lS7l, by John
d. Hartley and John Gurley, which is re.
corded in the Registers Office Of Shelby coun-
30, will, on
Monday, December 30. 1872,
within legal hours, at the southwest corner Of
Main and Madison streets, in the city of Mem
phis, Tennessee, proceed to sell, at public
ontcry, 10 the highest bidder, for cash, the
following described real estate, to-wit: A GER
tain parcel Of land, situate. lying and being
IN the county Of shelby, state OF tennessee
being lots numbers five t5l, six (6), seven al
eight ~, nine 90, ten Q0), eleven (ll), twelve
lizl, thirteen (lsl, fourteen (l4l and fifteen Q5,
in block ID, as laid down upon the plan OF the
town Of Fort Pickering, and being part Of the
same land conveyed by John c. McLemore to
Hartley & Gurley, by deed bearing date No
VeInber 70, 1865, and duly recorded in the Office
Of the Register Of Shelby county, Tennessee,
in book "A, page l0l.
The sale is made for the purpose Of paying
the Indebtedness secured by said trust deed
The right OF redemption IS expressly waived
in said trust deed, and the title is believed to
be perfect, but convey only as trustee
nO29 JULIUS A. TAYLOR, Trustee.