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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-11

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51amous and hsu!tiag Instruments
Eef power, Ever the aisciples Of the
school Oilnon4asisanc may now be
sati4fed, foR@an embodiment with
such a fellow was, like any other acct
dent, very unfortunate, but absolutely
unavoidable.
To be in the fashion now one must
possess q Himble conscience and con-
~venientIy pocketable honor, but in a
few short years the people will awake
from their Rip Van WinkB sleep and
look back upon all this time as q
strange ard horTid dream, a time
when men tanned their voices and
tried to tutor their eonsciences to
think wrong right; a time when
Grant reigned in a land Of dWarfed
souls, cramped feelings and warped
hearts; a sad and cruelty mOnOtonoUs
time when the heart of the true grew
tired with waiting and the sOuIof the
just waxed weary with pain. A time
is at hand when the corrupt shall be
cast down from high places, and Chi
nese execreseences no longer bevieWed
as models Of beauty, nor Pagan
morals be accepted as example of yir-
tue. L. s. LAKE.
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KANSAS.
Investigation of the Election Bribery Case.


ST. LOUIS. February 9.-The Dem.
Ocrat's Topeka (Kansss) special, re-
ferring to the Investigation OF the al
legged bribery in the election of United
States Senator Caldwell, last winter,
says the opinion is gaining ground
that the senate will and is throwing
every obstacle in the way Of the in
vestigatiOn that 1t possibly can. As
near as is known, the evidence thus
far has ELECTED nothing certain against
any one. There is a great deal of
hearSay, and surmises, and prObaDili-
ties that this and that man had re-
ceived or paid money, which has been
sworn TO. The investigation seems to
be widening every day, and Sidney
CLARK and his friends are trying to
bring out the names Of the men and
railroad companies who furnished
money to make the canvass, that re-
suited In his not being lenOminated
for congress at the State convention
last September. II this question is
gone into, of course his opponents
will try to find out where the money
they spent came from. In this way
the investigation Is made to occupy q
great deal of time, and before any
thing that is really german to the
question originally intended to be in
Vestigated is reached, the legislature
viii have adjourned, and nothing be
done.
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1t is not Southern States and COM
munities alone that derive historical
and practical advantages from feuds
within the body Of the Radical party;
even individual fameis the beneficiary
Of its internal striies. Not only Is
this true of the South and of citizens
Of the South, but a citizen OF the
whole cOunsTy will find the story of
his life, at least while president, made
spotless by the very dissensions which
his conduct begst. Recent revelations
made by ex-senator Ross, Of Kansas,
have shown, as they have never
doubted who knew well the character
and worth of Andrew johnson, that
the effort to impeach him had origin
in q touler plot, among villains more
reckless, debased and corrupt
than the confederates of Guy
Fawkes. 1t IS proven clearly
and cOnclusively that Pomeroy was
at least one Of American senators who
sold his vote in this trial for $40, 900,
Photographed copies Of the receipt he
executed fer the money are on exhibit.
ton in Northern museums, and as
POmeroy and his vile coadjutors go
down to infamy, the lustre of John.
sons fame grows brighter; and with
the lapse Of years, unless the Federal
system should be wholly wrecked, the
ex-President, as a statesman, will be
more and more esteemed, and the
the time will come, il pristine honesty
and patriotism ever be reproduced in
the conduct OF American government,
when Andrew JOhnson's State papers
will become the textbook OF Ameri-
IAN statesmen.
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THE New York Tribune, of Satur.
day last, says: Sin a special message
to the legislature, Governor Scott, Of
South Carolina, makes as bad an ex.
hibit of his administration as his
worst enemies have charged upon
him, Ofthe finances, here is a speci-
men: In November, 1870, the bonded
debt Of the State was put down by
the comptroller and assented to by
the governor and treasurer at s., $685.
906 50. In November, 1871, just one
year after, it is put down by the gov
ernOr and treasurer at $15, 76l, 9OS 50,
showing an increase s., 1O2, 600, and
yet from 1868 TO 1870, inclusive,
s., 466, S78 50 have been collected in
taxes. The amount each year, it is
being more than enough to
pay the State expenses, but unac-
counted TOR.
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A DISPATCH appears in the eastern
papers which states, On the alleged
authority Of Walter A. Lyon, that the
ku-klux hanged the negro at Browns
vile. The sheriff of Haywood, at
least on paper, is thus unconscioClsly
relieved Of a very disagreeable job. II
Mr.. Lyon would not have people ex-
anime the length OF his ears to learn
whether he may not bear a false nsme
he will correct this Radical lie.
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CorTOS HILLs AND LOCAL LEGIs-
LAIURE6.

u
The blessed constitution of Tennes'
see, a reformed by modern states
manship, inhibits the exemption OF
property from taxation that is devoted
to manufacturing purposes; but cities
AMI counties are not, we believe, thus
restricted in their action, and the city
OF Memphis and Shelby county can do
much in inaugurating and establish
ing modes of industry to which our
progressive railway system assures
b~Oundless success and prosperity. By
the law o. Maine, new cotton and
wooden factories are exempt for ten
years from State and county taxes.
The city of Portland exempts new
manufacturing enterprises from taxa
ton for a similar period. Bangor,
Lewiston and other towns in New
England offer similar inducements to
new manufacturing enterprises. This
is true also OF many other New Eng
land States and towns. The effect Of
this as exhibited in New England,
as might be expected, is to stimulate
new manufacturing enterprises, and
encourage the investment Of capitaIin
that direction, to develop and sustain
skilled labor, and bring large accumu-
latiOns of wealth into those cities and
States. The Augusta (Georgia)
Chronicle and Sentinel says it is a
fact well known to their community
that the Augusta factory distributes,
in expenses, wages, repairs, etc, the
aggregate amount of its capital in two
years and nine months. Here is a
gain to the community clear gain
from manutacturing-Of the difference
between the raw materials and the
manufactured article. The collateral
taxes growing out Of these disbUrse-
ments more than compensate for the
temporary pOstponement Of the direct
tax in the beginning; and the build
IDgs, machinery, ETC., II so much
fixed eapital-in many instances
drawn from other States-and will
forever remain a a part of the accu-
INFLATED wealth Of the State. So long
as high tariffs prevail, and until our
accumulated capital becomes sufficient
to cope with thu richer corporations
Of New England, the States and cities
1f Tennessee should encourage such
enterprises in every legitimate man
ler. 1t fixes capital within the State
otherwise would seek invest
nent beyond its limits, and attracts
from abroad. II New England
inds such a policy profitable, certain
y Tennessee viii find it equally so.
We hope cur boards of aldermen and
court will profit by the exam .
Die which New England shrewdness {
FINISHES. Let Us not only furnish the :
and required for the cotton mill pro-
'osed 10 be erected here, but let its :
property be exempted for ten years l
local taxation, and then our citi- I
ems the more readily will be induced :
0 invest a share Of annual profits in I
usiness in a manner that will relieve
be suterings Of countless unemployed p
7omen and girls, and furnish multi q
lied consumers Of the products of the \
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Upon my lips she laid her touch divine,
And merry speech and careless laughter
died
She nxed her melancholy eyes on mine,
And would not be denied
l saw the west wind loose his elOUdlets white,
In d1cks, careertng through the April SKY
could not sing, though Joy was at its hight,
kOr she stood silent by
1 watched the lovely evening fade away
A mist was lightly draWua across the stars,
She broke my quiet iream-I heard her say,
Behold your prison barsi
81 Earth's gladneEs shall not satisfy your soul,
This beauty Of the world In which you live
The browning grace that santides the whole,
That alone can glve."
heard, and shTuuk away rom her afraid;
But still she held me, and WOul still abide,
Youths bounding pulsesslackened and Obeyed
With slowly ebbing tide
% Look thou beyond the evening sky he said,
Beyond the changing %splendors Of The day,
Accept the pain, the WEAKNESS, the dread
Accept and bid me stayi"
turned and clasped her close with sudden
strength,
And slowly, sWeetly, 1 became aware
my arms Gods angel stood at length,
White-rObed and calm n lair.
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One Is fair, her golden hair
Streams on a neck Of snow.
Her bonnie eyes, Ike star-lit skies,
Sparkle with soffest glow;
And their gentle gaze
Recalls the days
When l was free rom woe
Like her-happy and free from woe.
Ay, her fair face beams with a grace.
A grace we seldom see
Her gentle voice makes hearts rejoice
With Its sweet minstrelsy:
And its seftast strain
But recalls again
The days when I was free-
Like her-Tas young and hee.
Meier were two-two sistsrs-who
In beauty differed 50
b others face, too, beams with grace,
And her eyes so darlIy glow:
And their dropping fringe
Gives a warmer tinge
To her cheek, unknown 70 woe
Not stained, Like mine, with wee.
Rich and rare floats her brown hair
Over her bos0m's charms,
And yet the while her seraDh smile
All sensual Thought disarms:
And nought we see
But purity
Virtue that nothing harms;
Sweet girl, unlike my stains and harm.
Oh may theybe happy and free,
Ever, those sisters twain,
And never know the touch Of woe
The cold, unceasing pain
That hath chilled my breast.
And dispelled its rest,
That viii come again,
Il Will never come again.
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GRA
The European Goagress-A Six weeks
Session.

From the Philadelphia Lsdgsr.l
The foreign journals bring accounts
of the Geographic congress which, az
ter q prOtraeted session Of more than
six weeks in Rome, Italy, adjourned
on January 18th, when 8 revised tele-
graph treaty vas signed. No radical
changes were made in the Interna-
tional Telegraph treaty signed at Pa
ris, on May 18th, 1865, except in re-
gard TO secret messsges-this class of
dispatches being greatly restricted in
Europe, and many countries being
exceedingly illiberal in permitting
their transmission. The new para
graph Of the treaty provides that
private messages may be eX-
changed in secret language be-
tween any two countries where
that mode of correspondence is
permitted, and that such messages
may be transmitted through countries
not allowing CIPHER dispatches. Mes
sages written in secret language are
defined to be those where either the
whole or part Of the text is composed
OF cypher letters or words, the signif. |
canoe OF which is unknown to the Off
GERS Of the sending station. The in
ternatiOnaI telegraph treaty of Nav
II, 1865, went into force on January 1, |
1856, and secured to the whole OF Eu-
rope the advantages of cheap and
uniform telegraphic correspondence
without any distinction either in re-
gard to language or prices of trans
mission. The treaty provided for tri-
ennIaI meetings for the revision, il
necessary, Of the regulations, and in
1859 the congress was held in Vienna.
The next meeting will take place in
June, 1872, at st. Petersburg. At the
congress recently held in Rome,
the question of naturalizing sub
marine telegraph cables was discussed
with great animation, and over fOrtv
speeches were made on the subject. A
letter from Professor Samuel F. B,
Morse was read, supporting the view
the telegraph congress, by a dis
slnet vote, should express the opinion
hat, In wal as well as in peace, tele-
graphing ashore and in the waters
be considered sacred, and that
{ should, by the unanimous consent
II all nations, be protected as inviOlate
secure against damage. No def {
lite conclusion was arrived at, but it {
s believed that a special international I
congress will be convened for the pur- !
rose OF discussing this measure, which I
vas formally suggested several years 1
by the State department at Wash 5
1
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MURDER IN IOWA.
A Nan Has tbs Top Of His Hsad sIewn
OF in the Settlsmeat eff a
Family Row.

CHICAGO, February ga special 10
the Times, from Sioux City, says that
last night Richard Connolly, a youn0
man living with his parents on the
Big Sioux river, eight miles above
that city, was shot and Instantly
killed by a man named Joseph Ben
wye. Connolly and q brOther-in-laW,
named Brown, were passing Ben
Wye's, when, il is claimed, his father
came out and began q quarrel about
some old family matters. Oae of the
Connellys struck the old man, where
upon young Benwye ran nom the
with a double barrel shotgun,
and discharged the right barrel at
completely blowing OF the
top of his head. The parties came to
Sioux City last night and procured a
warrant for the arrest Of both Of the
BenWyes and q man named Marks,
who was present. The sheriff found
The old man BenWye and Marks, bat
young BenWye escaped. No trace OF
him has yet been obtained
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Miss SARAH F. SMILEY, whose pull
pit elOquence has begotten such ex-
element in eastern cities, has been
preaching about four years. She was
as successful in England as in Ameri-
ca. She is native of Philadelphia,
about thirty years old, very hand
some, breaches only Christ and Him
crucifed and has been admitted to
pulpits of all Protestant denomina-
tons. At length the Presbyterians Of
New York city are discussing the
question whether a woman should be
suffered to occupy their pulpits, and
there is quite a sensation in religious
circles. Our Memphis Tablet can set
tie the question,
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THERE are sixty thousand tons OF
coal consumed annuallyin Memphis,
at a cost OF not less than five hundred
thousand dollars. When Forests
narrow-gauge road is finished one
hundred and eighty-five miles to the
coal fields of Alabama, or the Padu-
cab road to those Of Kentucky, fuel
viii be furnished at three dollars per
ton, Or a cost Of two hundred thou
sand dollars, and since this will pro-
mote consumption and multiply man
u~factOries and cheaper steamboat
transportation the quantity consumed
will be constantly greater and thecost
less. These two roads will ha finished.
one or both, before we can complete a
magnificent cotton mill.
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would 80 widen and strengthen
Grants power that the government
would become, almost instantly, a
consolidated despOtism. The reigning
family and all its branches and the
contractors would become mil
Iionsires. The late rebellion only
whetted the appetites Of thieves
and spectators and constituted the
primer in the progressive curric1aog
Of ofiee-holding training in ksvery.
There need be no invasion by Euro
pesn armies to impoverish the coun-
try, destroy its commerce, desolate
Its cities and repress the energies OF
the people. Practiced plunderers Ike
Leet stand in every avenue that leads
upward from the common people
the honest mas es-tO the source OF
honOrs and wealth. New England, If
Boston and Providence were bonn
barded and burned, would still gather
enormous riches. The West would
furnish food for powder and bullets,
and the South, it is supposed would
New England mills with cot
ton at prices fixed at will by New
England milI-owners, and thus
the war, begun to enforce bogus
trumped up by New England
cunning, would be waged solely in
promotion Of the interests Of New
England. This is the general plan on
OF the cunning diplomats who
conceived the scheme of MAR. First,
It was designed to assure Grants re-
election; and secondly, to multiply a
.hOusand-fold the fortunes of those
who exceIed all mankind in gather
ng wealth while States and commu-
mites were impoverished, while
mother earth sighed as lite hillOcks
'ose above the graves Of half a mill
on OF her children. These are the
)lans OF selfish speculation on which
Eastern fury bases its sublime sensi-
iveness and anxiety for war. Amer
can sense Of honor is most keen when
.upidity shsrpens it and New Eng
and at this hour mOnOpOEizes the
valor of the continent.
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THE negro government of the lis
trict of Columbia has already accunlu-
lated a debt Of thirteen millions-one-
sixteenth of the whole wealth of the
district. "People who pay no taxes
are not well fitted to expend the
wealth Of those who do" is the inno-
cent commentary made by a Republi-
manner.
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CHILDHOOD Ann AGE.


1t is, indeed, a little while
you were born, my happy pet
our future beckOns with a smile,
1ourb ygones don't exist as yet.
Is all the world with pleasure rife
Are you a little bird that sings
Her simple gratitude for life,
And lovely things?
The ocean and the waning moons,
The starry skies and starry dells,
And winter sport and golden Junes,
And art divine and beauty spells,
fiesta and songaud frOiic wit,
And banter, and domestic worm,
They all are mine. Ay, is 1t not
A pleasant earth?
And poet friends, and pOesy,
And precious books for any mood:
n then the best Of company
Those graver thoughts IN solitude,
That hold US fast, and never pail:
And then there's you, my own, my fair,
And IL soon must leave IL all
And much you care?
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GRANT wants SmiIer CoIfax to run
with him again, though many Radi-
Gals talk of Senator Wilson in subati-
tuition for SmiIer, because, it may be,
that Wilson never "smiles," and
Grant can do enough Of it for the
whole ticket.
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OHIO.
The Contested Election Case in the Legls-
latHre.

CINCINNATI, February 9.-The sem
ate committee on elections reported
on the SaylOr-Kemps contested cleo
ton cas- this morning. Reports were
made by the majority and minority
committees. The majority report is
signed by all the Republican mem
bers OF the committee and asks the
adoption of a resolution, declaring
SaylOr, the contestant, entitled to his
seat. The principal reason given is,
that the votes of the inmates of the
national asylum at Dayton were not
received. The committee are of the
opinion that the votes Of the inmates
should have been received and that
Sayior is legally elected senator from
the Third district and should have
his seat as such. The Democratic mi
nOlity of the committee also made a
report recommending that Kemper,
who occupies the seat as senator, be
allowed to retain his seat. After long
administering both reports were made
the special order for next Wednesday.
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Bank defsulters who do not keep
mlstresses, gamble, drink, or drive
last horses, but who are sober. serions
domestic and industrious, genersIIv
manage to rake in a little more fhs1
the wicked sort. The cashier and tel
Ter OF the Rhode Island National hank
In Providence, who have stolen The
funds to the tune of S2I9, GOO. were of
the serious and exemplary deserir-
ton, spending their evenings at homo
ike good family men, as thew vere
and leading generally lives ~perfeeflT
lovely. Possibly they were ebureb
members, and gave part OF the a.
stracted sums to support missio1ariSs
to the South Sea Islanders. AnOfboS
thing to be observed is that the direct
ors Of the bank were smOn0 fbe
shreWdest business men in Provi-
denee. The general moral to be de-
1ueed rom from this is, that ours is
2 very uncertain world. Tbe worst
lnlng ABOUT 1t is that you must trusf
somebody. You do o III are
'Wlndled; you kick the sWindIer ont
ND proceed to trust the new man
most ahectiOnately.
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FoRNEY, when editing the Wash
ington Chronicle, in 1868, asserted
through its columns that Grant IA
vored the one-term amendment to the
constitution. Forney and Grant have
braveIy recovered from that weak
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FISH WILL SOON be ''done"-for;
heis always sin hot waters" but the
prettiest kettle of Fish" is that
which made old Gortschakoff "boil
over" when that EbrOth of q bOy,p
Cramer, the Presidents sweet broth-
er-in-law, got things in Denmark in
such a ''stew." Ever since Cramer
went there we have thought there
was something rotten in Denmark"
The Danish Fishery" ''shines and
stinks and stinks and shines like a
rottOn mackerel by moonlight"
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THE ANNUAL commerce Of the Mis-
sissippi river amounts to two thou
sand millions Of dollars, and yet
Grants imperial congress has never
learned there is such an inland sea
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In a recent sketch Of the old Bland
lord church at Petersburg, Virginia
1I IS related how Arnold the traitor
then serving in the British army m,
der General Phillips, had his quarters
near to this old church. The scc0unf
goes on to say: "The silver vessels
used in administering the sacrament
had q narrow escape from the eI1fcb
OF the soldiery. Valuables of tbis IL
scriptiOn were hidden away in cellars
buried in the earth; and the trsIi-
ton still fingers that Arnold. on one
occasion, descended into a cellar TO
for silver plate-pernsps into
the very place Of eOnceaIment Of the
sacred vessels mentiCned-passing
within only 8 few feet OF them with.
9us discovering their hiding-plaee.D
L would seem from this that Arnold
md Butler greatly resembled each
'ther in some things.
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HUMILITY.

How beautiful the plaeef
I would not miss,
What lovely lacel -
This perfect bliss.
InOw confess,
With sweet repose,
she's turned her dress)
Ny eyes l close.
Ny thoughts above,
DevOut ascend
I've lost my gloVe)
Al here / bend.
Here in this pen,
Ny hearts at rest
My hat Is newt
And 1 am blest.
Oh prosperous fair,
Beyond these tears,
(HOW's my Jack hair?)
OF brighter spheres.
It's but a span,
A fleeing day
THAT nice young MANI
That here we stay.
Which We would show
In various ways
James got a beau)
Our rector says.
And WeshouId live a pious,
q uumDle LIet
t5hels cut hers on a biasl
I Free from worldly STRIFE.
The battle Waged,
We 90 70 rest,
@ Us she engaged q
Among the bIest.
The Christian graces
VIII seek,
How tight she lacesl
With heart full meek
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THE BEST evidence we have seen Of
returning sense Of justice in the
North, as the South is affected by 1t,
is the common assertion by the press
that HRS. General Lee should be paid
for her Arlington estate.
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How GRANT HsEL Run zHR 4wAE
HACHIEE"


1t is we'll enough for Grant TO In
yolve US in war. With peace, his
chances of reelection are constantly
essened, and his political fortunes
cannot be impaired and may be pro
NOTED by the contemplated collision
with Great Britain. But there is a
broader view of the question. A war
made to enforce the claims OF New
England for incidental damages done
by the Alabama, would result ia GER
tain, positive and direct advantage to.
New England. New England would
furnish ships and supplies for armies,
prospecting in the shOddy business as
when the South was overrun By Fed
eral armies. Offices aud appointments,
multiplied by countless thousands,
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TIE DEMooRATs of New Ham'p-
shire, while there are faur candidates
in the field are s3uguine Of the elee.
ton OF Governor Weston.