Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-04
toms WOrk-That Invitation
TO Grant.

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from vexatiOns, forensic squabbles and
wearying business application.
REVEREND AND GRAVE sEIGNEURs.
At present the city is "chuck fun'' of
wholesome, fat, sleek, well-preserved
gentlemen Of the cloth, holding solemn
conclave to determine whether that
great Baptist seminary is to be located
here or not. There is a perceptible rise
Z in spring chickens since their advent.
| The people entertain high hopes Of the
/ happy moral results which would follow
/ the establishment of such an institution
Of book and theology in their midst
! Consequently the Baptist brethren are
very welcome guests.
A RIVAL OF THE MOUND-BUmDERs.
Stanton, that was, is still a power in
the town. His name can still evoke a
ghost from the vastly deep. 1t is as Do
tent as any name that is remembered in
this part of the State. There are but
two notable epOchs in Chattanooga his
tory. One il the dim and dubious part
Of several years ago, when fiatbOatmen
stopped here TO replenish their whisky
supply. That is called the foundation
Of the city. The other is when Stan
ton came here.n The latter commenced
four or five years ago. Stanton doubled
the population. He built a quarter
million hotel, started an Operahouse,
finished a depot, erected postoffice, and
designed moving the city a mile south
Of It's present low quarters. He also
started the outlines Of a great union de-
pot in full view Of his gigantic hotel,
which, by the way, is now empty, and
a splendid monument TO his ill-judged
enterprise, and is, not inappropriately,
named
sTANTON's FOLLY.
The railroad be constructed is over two
hundred miles long "dOwn south - one
quarter Of it being now in operation and
the remainder going TO ruin. There are
thirty washed-Out places on il, and seven
or eight bridges down. The magnificent
enterprises of Stanton in this town are
going to ruin in the same way, while he
himself is in New York litigating for his
rights. He expects to get the road back
again; and then, the sanguiBe say, there !
viii be inaugurated once more the era
Of rattling prosperity equal to the hal /
cyOn days when Stanton came here 1
The upper part Of town where be Ope-
rated Is little more than a wreck The /.
brick stores are either empty or doing a I.
decaying business. A social atrophv .
seems to affiict the place. A few despe- |
rate people still cling to itand look visit /
fully New YOTk-ward, for the second |
advent Of Stanton, and the hopeless .
coming Of customers. He made the .
most magnificent failure Of any city
builder Of modern times.
INDIVIDUAL EFFORT.
Notwithstanding all this, the old and
part of the city goes ahead /
The progress is made by what
are called slow coaches, men who have
no theories and nonsense, and only .
think of bettering their own fortune. F.
There is not an iota Of public spirit to
be found; the city grows out Of indi-
vidual selfshness, and that sort of /
clamor and struggle for the mastery,
which characterises the conduct Of men
in every condition Of life.
THE PRESS.
The newspaper interest goes forward /
with the uprising of brick piles. The F..
Times, a sound conservative paper has
: well appointed Office and a solid circu-
alton with a good hopeful patronage in
is business department.
BARD AND THE BULL PURPS.
Sam Bard has paper here which is
manipulated in the interests
)f Grant. Sam and his henchmen are
evidently smelling cut for political
;pOils. A few days ago be sent an invi-
-atiOn TO Grant to abandon Long Branch
and come to rusticate on Lookout
Mountain, at the expense Of the city.
The Taxpayers feel mad about it. 1t is
Jnly a short time ago that the city
'unds to the tune Of three thousand dol
ars were expended to entertain a Geor-
yia press excursion that stopped over
lere, wined, whisked and hacked up
be Lookout Mountain, accompanied by
be cite and dead-beat portion of the
.itiZens. "The honest and indus
riOus taxpayer felt indignant at
laving to foot so stiff bill.
TEMPERANCE.
From politics to temperance is a viO-
ent transition, but it is natural here.
Before Stanton came here" every {
,ther house was a saloon, and there was
,nly one brick store in the place. Every
lther man was topper, and the rigidly ,
Ober was non est. There was no such {
,eing. The apostles Of temperance set /
o work, and now have an organization f,
# six hundred members; and three
ourths of the saloons are shut up. The f.
men Of liquor are dying out, and the
mean condition Of the mean State of 4,
Maine will shortly be reached This (
earful organization Of six hundred able {
,odied reformed drunkards propose, .
With all the fierce and fiery zeal which /,
ecent, rampant converts feel, to have a ,
aw enacted by the Legislature which
viii enable them to vote whisky and
ager a nuisance, and kick the demijohn ;
md the keg into the Tennessee river, at
he fO8t Of Market street.
PERSONAL.
Major Elliott, the energetic Agent Of
he Kansas Pacific railroad, returned a
lay or two ago from Colorado, whittier !
le brought a whole train of immigrants. ]
1e leaves for Nashville to-day, fOT the I
purpose Of taking out another colony. !
n the future he will have his head I
quarters at Chicago, until something ]
lse happens. ".