davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
REFORM.
What the Tax-Payers Should do for
Candidates-Hear ''GaYOsO,'

! EDITORS APPEAL-Our reformers are
on ne right road. They have under
taken /, large job, but not at all imprac-
ticable. Le,t them actupon the common
sense su09esl, ons made by you in to-
days issue, and they certainly cannot
| fail of success. sch Oose between can
didates-hold the baianee Of power and
compel candidates to adopt their plat
form" is the true policy In 4 nut-shelI.
They ought not to permit the parI,y now
controlling our county affairs to nOlHu-
nate an unworthy or incompetent cam
didate for any Office. In doing this they
must not forget that it is the easiest
matter in the world to pull dOwn-it is
another thing to build up properly.
They must remember, too, that they are
not building renOvatOrs. Their province
Is to cleanse out and purify, not to pull
down or build up. Our laws, city,
county, and State, are not radically de-
fective. They are crude and imperfect
in many instances and have been miser-
ably executed in others. Then let our
reformers, repeal, amend, modify and
enforce. And above all things, let them
go to their work cautiously, carefully
| and considerably.
10 90 au tnls e1ecJually respectfully
suggest to the Twenty-Five that they
accept the city press as their pilot, and
cooperate earnestly and freely with you
in the work. If they look back few
years they will see that you have used
all your influence to get the very men
who composed the operahouse meet
ing to 60 to the primary meetings and
the polls. And no thoughtful man can
for moment doubt but that this alone
would have relieved US of many of the
burdens of which we complain. As an
instance, call to mind the election Of a
Justice in the Fourteenth District not
long since.
This suggestion is made for the sole
purpose of aiding the committee in their
labOrs. The writer is earnestly with
them in their purposes. GAYoso.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
Card from the Magistrates.


EDITORS ENTERPRIsE-As some Of
the public have seen fit TO make remarks
which, to US, are unjust, improper, and
entirely Unwarranted, relative to our ac-
ton in the case of the State VS.. Sawyer,
Owen and Ward charged with having
taking the life of John Bell, Esq, on
the sixth instant, we wish to make the
following statement of the facts:
That Mr. Bell died at the hands of an
assassin we have no doubt, but as to
who the assassins are is a matter entire
ly unknown to US or to the public.
The above named defendants were ar
rested, two Of them on the morning of
the seventh instant, and the other one
on the succeeding morning, and on the
evening Of the said last mentioned day,
the case was proceeded with, and con-
cluded about half-past six O'clock Satur-
day evening, at which time the defen-
dants were all discharged for want of
proof against them.
We held our sessions early and late,
from day to day, until the case had been
gone entirely through with, granting the
State the most extended liberality in the
introduction of her evidence under
heavy protest from defendants coUnsel), 4,
in order that the whole matter might be
fully understood, so that we might ar
rive at the real parties to the homicide;
and we think no court ever listened with
more patience and good temper than we
did, during the entire progress of the
case.
After the evidence had all been taken,
and the arguments of counsel for the
State and defendants had been patiently
listened to, we came to the conclusion
that there was nothing against the de-
PENDANTS, or either of them, for which to
put them under bonds to appear at the
next term of the Bartlett Circuit Court,
to abide the action Of the Grand Jury.
The manner in which the deceased
was killed excited general indignation
throughout the vicinity, and che public
demanded that we should commit the
defendants to jail-but as Justices of the
Peace, with a sworn and responsible
duty before US, and entirely without the
right Of choice OF private or public Opin-
ion, other than that authorized by law,
we felt, and feel, that it was our impera-
tive duty to discharge each and all of
the defendants.
In conclusion we viii say that, whilst
we fully indorse the public in their lib
eral efforts and unabating energies to
bring the murderers to justice, we most
solemnly protest against any public
clamor against Us in our action in this
case, or any other that may happen to
come before us, should we fail to concur
with the public in our opinion. And
further, we claim to be Justices of the
Peace, sworn to perform legal duties,
and none other as such. We are not
"Public Opinionists," nor can we be so
warped.
E. W. CALDWELL, J. P.
i. PULLIAM. j. p.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21

and take action upon matters of public
interest, which in their judgment, may
demand attention; and, in general, tC
watch for and represent the interests oi
the people; and this meeting, and the
members thereof, pledge themselves to
sustain said committee in all their acts
done In pursuance of these resolutions.
Sixteenth-That the people present
and represented in this convention,
pledge themselves each to the other to
oppose by all reasonable and legitimate
efforts the election of members of the
Legislature, without reference to party
distinction, who do not indorse and ap-
prove the reform embodied in these res
olutiOns. 80 7-tsr
Seventeenth-Thata committee of ten
gentlemen be appointed, whose duties il
shall be forthwith to raise by subscrip-
tiOns from the people such sums of
money as they are able to procure, to be
placed by them in the hands of the Ex-
ecutive Committee, hereinbefore ap-
pointed, which shall be used and dis
bursed by that committee for the pur-
poses indicated in former resolution,
and for all legitimate purposes in fur
therance of the object of the people.
Said funds shall be used and employed
by the gentlemen of that committee ae-
cording to their discretion, without any
limitation or restraint whatever. Said
committee to have power to fill vacan-
eies which may occur in the committee.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
HABEAS-CORPUS.
Interesting COlIOquy between AlcOrn
and Ames During the BTehing
Session of the Senate
Yesterday.

WASHINGTON, May s0.-The cOnsid
Grafton of the hG6eds corpus bill wa
resumed, Senators Osborn, AlcOrn anC
Ames taking part in the discussion, the
main feature of which was a collOquJ
between the two Mississippi Senators
Aleorn charging Ames with not really
being a resident of the State, and with
assailipg its people as murderers in
former speech, he having said thatsixty-
eight murders were committed during
three months of Alcorn's administration
as Governor, when but eighteen were
committed.
Senator Ames said that ever since his
colleague had been in the Senate he had
talked of nothing but himself, until to-
night, and now that be had brought him
(Ames) in, he would reply at the proper
time.
Senator AlcOrn contrasted the peace
which prevailed during his term as
Governor with the violence and disorder
when Senator Ames was Military Gov
ernor, and claimed that there had been
no kuklux convictions under his admin
istration nor under the rule of the bayo-
net. He protested against the lives and
of the people of Mississippi be-
ing placed under the heelof the bayOnet.
The Southern people would not come to
the support Of any President who has
the power placed in his hands by Con-
gress to deprive them of their liberties.
Senator Pratt followed, reading from
the testimony of Governor Ames before
the Sub-Kuklux Committee, to the
effect that the passage of the kuklux
law had a most salutary effect on Missis-
siDDi.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
ESTABLISHED $780, .r,a
DAYS DorNss IN NASHVILLE.

Dispatches Of last night state that a
meeting Of citizens, irrespective Of party,
yesterday at Nashville, over which
Chancellor East presided, nominated
Emerson Etheridge and T. A. r. Nelson
electors for the State at large to cast the
vote of Tennessee for Greeley and
Brown. These are able, excellent men,
and will enjoy the accustomed journey
ings from Carter to Shelby, to be made
with Messrs. Quarles and Fleming,
representing in this behalf another State
Convention called Democratic and
Conservative. Since there is no diff
ference of opinion between the two
sets Of electors, the two tickets
become practically unit and we will
fire away enc day a volley of killing elo-
quence at the innocent people, and the
other, the next It win be a sort, Of
double-barreled Colts repeating bHsi-
ness, and the explosions are designed to
be loud rather than destructive. It's a
very funny arrangement, and a nice,
quiet little game Of draw" might well
determine which of the two pairs Of
field-pieces may be drawn off and spiked.
Chancellor East and his sweet lit
tie coterie further determined TO
suffer each Congressional district
to select its local eleetOr, which
was very kind of the Chancellor.
There is an awkward aspect presented
by the conduct of this Oriental (East's)
Convention. When the straight RAIDS
set up an electoral ticket the question
will at once arise how time is to be
divided. 1t viii not be fair to sandwich
Barbour and the other Granite between
such volcanic gentlemen as the four elO-
quent Greeley electors now before an
admiring world. Each Greeley orator
must be ansWered-and Barbour and his
bower LBarbour's photograph is the Jack
of Clubsl may speak themselves to
death. If this were the end contem-
plated by the Nashville Conventions and
their multitudinous Greeley tickets, they
are eminently wise and proper bodies.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
the MURDER OF ESQUIRE BELL.
Trial OF Henry Sawyer, Phil Ward and
Henry owen.
There being no Evidence 10 Convict, they
were Discharged,

The Bartlett Enterprise Of last Satur-
day says that Henry Sawyer, Phil Ward
and Henry Owen, who were under ar
rest and on trial at the date Of our last
issue, charged with having murdered w.
y. A. Bell, ESQ, on Monday, May sixth,
near his home on the road leading from
Green Bottom, were released from Gus
tody late Saturday evening last, the
Magistrates, Elijah PuIliam and Z. w.
Caldwell, deciding that there was ne
legal evidence adduced to implicato
them in the murder.
The charge against Wilson Conyer IS
vet undecided, he having put himself
away from the court and vamosed.
There were thirty or forty witnesses eX-
amined on both sides, and Mr.. Henry
Sawyer established a character for NOR
ality, peace and quiet in the highest de-
gree. Public opinion was against the
prisoners, and the counsel for the State,
E. NJ. Hearn, Esq, made a mastery ef-
fort in his argument. The defense was
conducted by General w. G.. Reeves,
who works harder for his client than
most attorneys. He elucidated the law,
and made one Of his happiest efforts.
The decision of the couqt was received
with surprise by great many.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
THE CITIZENS REFORM ASSOCIATION

Yesterday afternoon the Executive
Committee Of the Citizens Reform As.
sOciation met and organized for an
active campaign against public abuses
of every character. The address of the
committee appears in full in another
place, and should be carefully Studied.
1t has rarely been misunderstood OF
grievOusly misrepresented, and it be-
hooves each citizen TO read carefully
the statements of the committee. Then
vulgar, ignorant, prejudice will be ap-
pealed to in vain, and while honest
office-holders are in no wise condemned
because they enjoy large salaries and
perquisites, and no one blames them,
yet it is the proper purpose Of the Re
form Association to move steadily for
ward until they have gathered strength
enough to control the legislation of the
State, and until we are blest with a
system as cheap and economical as that
which subsisted before war made men
savages and begat habits of wasteful-
ness
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
SPAIN.

MADRID, May ga report was cur
rent this forenoon that Don Francisco
Romero RObledO, Minister of Public
Works, had withdrawn from the Minis
try, but it is denied this afternoon.
The attitude of the government OF
France toward the Carlists and the
facility with which the retreating insur-
rectionists escape into France has
caused a deep feeling Of irration on the
part Of the Spanish government. SenOr
Garcia Gutierrez, Spanish Consul
at Bayonne, France, has arrived in
Madrid, he comes for the purpose Of
formally complaining Of the course pur-
sued by the French authorities toward
fleeing Carlists. Detachments of gov
eminent troops continue to encounter
CarIist bands in the disaffected Prov
inces, and the insurgents are invariably
beaten and dispersed. 1t Is officially
announced by the government to-day,
that desertiOns from the Carlist bands in
the Province Of Biscay have cOmmen-
ced. and many of thelinsurrectionists
nresent themselves TO the government
froops to give up their arms. More than
four thousand have already submitted.
Urban. a Carlist leader, is dead. The
insurgent bands in the other Provinces
are dispensing.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
JEFF
And JeaEersOnian DeEaOeRaey-COtton
worms -LOeusts-The narrow
Gauge and Greeley.

TIPPAH COUNTY, Miss, May ls, 1872.
EDITORS APPEAI-AfteF drouth Of
six weeks, we were yesterday blessed
with a glorious, revivifying shower,
which was gladly welcomed by the
farming community, who had nearly
suspended farming operations.
Cotton has come up very scattering ia
the fields; not enough has come up to
make a stand,v and, as a matter Of
course, very. little has been worked out.
1t was thought awhile by some that cot
ton would not come up at all, and that
little in these parts would be raised, and
doubtless it would have been a God
send " if it had not come up; for
in that event planters would have re-
sorted to the eOrn-field, and also many
of the planters would have transformed
their cotton-felds into corn-fields, which
would have doubtless proved a happy
transformation to the community, at
least; but there is little short of staFva-
tion that viii ever induce this people to
change the growth Of cotton to that OF
cereals.
Corn crops have suffered less on ac-
count of the drouth than cotton, and
might say that the corn crop looks ex-
tremely promising just now.
Wheat is looking fine now and prom
ises a fair yield, but the great trouble
about it is there was 50 little sown,
so we may expect that staple to be
very scarce and dear in this vicinity.
The woods Of this section are perpet-
ully ringing like the chime of ten thou
sand little bells by the never firing and
indefatigable locUsts.
The RipIey narrOW-gauge railroad is
growing toward completion rapidly. I
am told that there are over three hun
dred hands employed on the work. /
tell you, sir, it begins to resemble a rail-
road right smart now; one would think
so if he could see the great excavations
and elevations all along the line. Old
Tippah is coming out, ''yOu bet"
The political spirit of our people is be-
ginning to run pretty high just now and /
can assure your readers that old Tippah
is fright side up" for Horace Greeley;
or, in other words, they are Just any
thing to smoke out the smoi5p Grant
who has harrassed the people to despe-
ration. JEFF.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
Nanaerbut vs.. the Eric Railroad

The case of Vanderbilt VS.. the Erie
railroad came up to-day before Judge
DAILY on a demurrer TO the complaint.
The suit is for one hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars, being coupons for
two years in one million two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars of bonds in
the Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad
company, the interest on which was
guaranteed by the Erie Railway in Oc-
tOber, 1867. The question involved the
guarantee of some five millions of the
Boston, Hartford and Erie road alone.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
DAVE CROCKETT.
His Departure from the BsuF-A ones
tiOn Of History.


EDITORS APPEALr-In the notice Of
the departure Of David Crockett from
the Bluff, I think your correspondent
labored under a mistake. Crockett left
Johnson's hotel about eleven o'clock in
the morning, about the middle of Octo-
Der, 1885, on horseback, in company
with several friends from Madison coun-
ty. / think that a young man by the
name of Haskill was one Of his party.
The night before he Ieit the Bluffs all
the young hen had a frolic, and among
lose who made speeches, / remember
J,An Williamson, Ed. Price, William
FRASER, Todd Collins, Toddy Dickson,
and jeff Hyter. The boys and young
men kept it up all night. Crockett gave
it up as the hardest place he had ever
visited. E-V AZ ETtf a0r
This same winter Of 1885, Bishop
Otey visited Memyhis and held services
in a small room over the market-house,
about twenty feet square. AT that time
there was no oehurch edifice, and but four
members Of the church. The day was
rather wet and disagreeable; no ladies
were present, and only about a dozen
gentlemen. / remember Daniel Ander-
son, Henry Saines, james Rose. w. B.
Miller, and Major Bowman, U. S. A.
lt..-.r s-- .sa TONEY TANK.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21

A Herald correspondent has inter
viewed Ex-Secretary Seward on the
Alabama claims. Mr.. Seward said that
few people understood the Alabama
Claims question, or they would not get
so excited. He referred TO the Johnson
Clarendon treaty as a means of over
coming all the difficulties in the case,
and stated that the people, If dissatisfied
with the Washington treaty, should
urge the Government to bring up the
former and have it ratified by the Sen
ate. Mr.. Seward favors the adoption OF
the supplemental article to the Wash
ingtOn treaty, and thinks the Senate will
recommend its adoption; but in either
event, no danger was between England
and America.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21

Mail advices from Hayd state that an
excitement occasiOned at Cape Hayti on
the nineteenth of April by the landing
of a boats crew from the United States
steamer Nantucket at Canerage for
howitzer practice. General Alexis, COM
manGer of the department, chose to
consider it hostile act and dispatched
troops TO ascertain the reason of the
landing Of foreign guns, and remon-
strated with the American Consul. At
the request of the latter Captain Car
penter re-emEarked the guns and men
and proceeded TO Port-au-Prince, when
the Haytien Foreign Secretary made a
demand on the United States Legation
for an immediate reparation Of the in
eu1f
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
ARKANSAS.
Immense OTerhOW-The Town Of Ar.
genta, Opposite Little Rock, Under
Water-The River Still Rising.
Meeting Of the Brooks Republican Con.
yentiOn ON Wednesday-BrOOks
Probably Nominated for
Governor.


LITTLE Rock, May oO.-The river i;
twenty-six feet at this point and still
rising. II lacks but four feet Of being as
high as in 1874 The town Of Argenta,
opposite this place, is OverfOwed, as
also the depot and track of the Memphis
railroad. The damage already done to
plantations near here is estimated at
thirty thousand dollars. Thousands OF
acres of cotton are under water below as
well as above.
In Jefferson, Arkansas, and Desha
and Chicot counties, large part Of the
farms bordering along the river are COW
cred with water.
The Brooks Republican State Conven-
ton, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for State officersand electing
delegates to the Philadelphia COnven-
ton, meets Wednesday. A large num-
Der of delegates are already here. Brooks
viii probably be nominated for Gov
eTnOr.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
A storm I'm the international Camp.

The threatened split in the Interna-
ti0nals took place Saturday. The Fede-
raj counsel met in the morning and held
a very stormy session. Sections two and
ten, both French, the former being
the oldest in the country, presented their
withdrawal, and great confusion ensued.
Excited speeches and mutual recrimina-
tiOns Were with difficulty restrained by
the chairman and more temperate mem
bers. The difficulty seems to be a failure
of the offending section to indorse the
ultra views of the party, who were re-
sponsible for the recent Presidential
nomination at Apollo Hall. Several
other sections are dissatisfied for the
same reason. Announcement was made
of the split of the Internationals in Lon
don, and the formation Of a new general
council, called the Federalt Council.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
Latest from the PhIladeIphIa Fire.

PHILADELPHIA, May 2O.-Ihe FIRE
men are still playing on the shoulder
ing ruins of Jayne's building. Naler's
Hotel was crushed by the falling Of the
walls. The Commercial Lists office
was completely demolished by the fall
ing of the western wall. All the floors
are demolished down to the first, though
the front wall is uninjured. About four
hundred persons are thrown out Of en-
ployment. About noon to-day the west
ern walls fell into Relief alley, between
Jayne's block and Valers's Hotel, injur-
ing three firemen, one fatally. The
crash caused a rush among the speeta-
tors, and one man was knocked down on
Third street and run over by wagon
loaded with iron and seriously injured,
one of his legs being crushed. Other
persons in the crowd We're injured dur
ing the lauic.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21

IT WILL be remembered that E. o.
Perrin, in the midst Of his peroration,
pronounced an eloquent eulogium, al
the Greenlaw Opera-House, upon San
ford E. Church, Chief-Justice Of New
York. Mr.. Perrin said that the great
New Yorker would be the proper Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency, and
now Judge Church says that Greeley
viii make a proper President.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
NEW YORK MITCELLANIES.

The Germans celebrated Whit-Mon-
day very enthusiastically.
Ex-Mayor Samuel Smith, of Brook.
lyn, died to-day, aged eighty-four years.
The eight-hour law strikers number
now about ten thousand mechanics OF
all grades.
Ten wooden houses in East New York.
a suburb Of Brooklyn, and owned by f.
B. Hill, were burned yesterday. Loss.
thirty thousand dollars; partially in
sured.
The Reformed Presbyterians yester-
nay discussed the increase of the sun
day-school, and received encouraging
reports from the Committee on the Signs
of the Times.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21

A report has been received at the WaI
Department, dated Fort Leavenworth,
the ninth instant, which says that Cen
eral Granger reports a collision between
some troops and thieving band of Utes
at Terra Amarillo, northwest Of AbiguiT,
on the sixth instant. One Indian was
killed and one severely wounded. The
attack was made by the Indians in the
presence Of the Indian agent, and the
troops defended themselves after repeat
ed insults. Every effort was made to
prevent trouble by the agent and the
commanding officer. General Granger
leaves to-day 70 prevent further trouble,
II possible, and says he is just informed
that the Apaches are going peaceably
10 their new reservation at Tulerosa.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21

SUCH is the shakiness of onr Secre
tary Of State that he is now assigned by
political naturalists place among jelly.
fish. Moreover, the English epicures
think him very grabbed. When he
drifted about in the Senate they used
to call him a jolly good Fish. He and
Salmon P. used to chase one another
about very lovingly when parties were
not so utterly at sea.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-21
Gold Exchange RnIes.

The Gold Exchange, following the
example Of the Stock Exchange, have
adopted a rule for opening at ten O'Clock
and closing at four, during the summer,
except on Saturday, when the closing
hour will be three o'clock in the after
noon. Members doing business outside
the house will be fined.