Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-07
MISSISSIPPI.
The Excitement at Jacks0n-GOVernor
Power and Auditor EusgrOIe
on Stolen Bonds.
A Run In the Radical Camp-The Weeds
Weeded-The CauldrOn BOils-
Froth and Fume.
Nabers, Power and Ames-The Hungry
TriO-HOt Weather and Hot Pol.
itics-AttOrney-Gen-
eral Morrison.

eral Morrison.
From an Occasional Correspondent
JACKSON, MISS, June 5.-The. .pubI-
cation in the APPEAL of the twenty
ninth ultimo, of the hitherto supposed
correspondence between the governor
and auditor of this State, has led TO
serious, or rather comice-seriOus difficult
ty between that unique brace of carpet
baggers. There, is paper published at
Vicksburg, called the Time, or the Time
SerUer, or some such "entitle," and ed
tied by little eight-by-ten perfumed
caTbetbagger, whose name is Flake, or
Snowflake. But though an admirer of
his, cannot always recall his beauti
ful name. Well, this Mr.. Flake, in
| his meanderings about the historic
"city of the Hills,n in some of the bar
| ber-shops (he visits the barber-shops
three times day, picked up copy of
| that issue of the Appeal, and saw
the aforesaid official correspondence.
Your compositors had maliciously re-
duced some of the photography to the
ordinary standard of Kings English,
and thus deprived it of its principal
point, for you must know that our gov
ernor's wisdom and craftsmanship is
like Bill Apps wit; itsonsists chiefly in
| its bad spelling. Mr.. Flake knows some
thing about events as they trans
pire in the auditors office,
and that the word "extreme''
in the governors handwriting is
always spelt with a double e.. He
therefore felt called upon to publish, and
did actually publish for the edification
of the benighted natives, an exact and
authentic copy of the original corTespon-
dence, spelling and all, just as it came
! from under Governor PoWers's own
hands. The governor read it as pub
lished In the Time Server, at first with
| infinite satisfaction, because he thought
his letter to Auditor MusgrOve was not
only 'smart,n but exceedingly sharp
and witty. 1t had taken him and two
private secretaries, SO the rumor goes,
nearly a whole day and night to
compose it. The idea that there was
any violation of the rules of grammar
or OF official courtesy, or that there
were any such rules TO be observed,
never, even when he saw his letter
clothed in the dignity of print and COM
mented on, once perforated his Uranium,
till his brother-in-law's sisters nephew,
or some such cOnneXion as that, called
his especial attention to it. He then
frantically rushed into the auditors Of
fee for comparison of the published
OrthOgrophy with his manuscript. He
compared them, word for word, and let
teTSfor letter; and then, finding his let
ter correctly copied by the types, he
looked the auditor squarely in the face,
and the following colloquy ensued:
Powers = MusgrOve, you are the
meanest man l ever seed!
Musgrove-I am not half as mean as
you are, sir!
P.-That's false-and you can't prove
it, sir!
NJ. Rising and swinging his arms
Sir, you are q lying, corrupt scOundrel! !!
You told Judge c. and others that /
promised you that, if you would sign
the bill making the appropriation, /
would issue the warrant for the whole
amount $50, ,e92) subject to your order,
it being understood that Mary Mcbride
was to get nothing.
P.-Yes; but what of that?
M.-Simply this: that your approv-
al of the act bears date April 18th,
when our interview on the subject was
on the twenty-tirst, three days after you
had signed il!
P.I don't pelieve-don't care-I
signed the act-Musgrove, you are too
mean man for me to talk to.
About that time there was shufffing
of feet heard in the auditors Office
("Mus.n hasn't the smallest feet ever
saw, and Powers came rushing out.
with Musgrove bringing up the rear.
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.
The questions most excitingly dis
cussed and absorbing the largest share
of attention just now are, whether the
official correspondence of pub. fumes. is
public property? and is the auditor cen
surable for allowing theselett to come
to light? And, further, What was the
nature or character of the "means" used
by the governor, as referred to in the
auditors letter, by which the warrant
in question was obtained by his excel
lency? When these knotty ques-
tions are decided, the public ought
| to know the decision. Even a
| tolerably disinterested loOker-on and
listener cannot avoid being amused,
| despite the irTepressible disgust which
every honest and intelligent observer
must feel at the inexpressibly thin and
transparent plotting and counter-plot-
| ting of the several small-fry aspirapts
for the robes which now hang so ele-
gantly from the shoulders Of the " act
ing" governor.
TWENTY -FOUR BLACKBIRDS ALL IN A
| PIE.
The so-called " executive committee -
of the Radical party, composed, | be-
lieve, of twenty carpetbaggers and four
natives, has pretended to have 81
meeting" There was not quorum, or
half quorum present, and consequent
| ly, if it was any other party but
the Radicals, their action, of course,
would be illegal and void. But with
this party engineered in the interest of
ring of carpetbag freeboOters, it seems
everything which looks to the control
of the offices and plumber, and to keep
| ing them exclusively in the hands of
their chiefs, is entirely acceptable. That
part of the committee which ''met,
were in the interest of Ames. The first
thing they did was to erpei some absent
members, who, it was understood, are
not friendly to Ames. They then set
! about ''filling vacancies in the com
mittee, which they did by inserting in
the list of names comprising the
committee, certain prominent carpet
baggers' names IN place of southern
| Republicans, who hal been appointed
by the State convention, which migin-
ally appointed the committee. This
being done, the next thing was to deter
mine at what time the nominating State
convention should be called. The CON
siderations which ordinarily influence
The calling of such a convention, for
several reasons: First-because it was
absolutely necessary that their chief be
allowed time to get his family from
the north, and bring them into this
State, and make some show Ofpretending
to live in the State. Secondly-Becaus
even if Ames already had his family
here, it is indispensable that he should,
by some means, be relieved from max
ing an active canvass, inasmuch as that
shining spirit does not shine well on the
stump-indeed, he has not the capacity
or the intelligence necessary to make
even radical harangue to q crowd COM
posed exclusively of his friends" and
none of the opposition near enough to
reply or even listen to him, and
it was was known that if he
should be brought upon the stump, there
are thousands of men all over the
State, of every shade of political
opinion, any of whom could, and possi-
bly, might, get after AmeS on the stump,
and, by few words of reply, comment
or ridlcule, humiliate him IN the pFes-
ence of his "friends-p And, thirdly, it
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