Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-07

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all its appurtenancee is also asked.
t The Shah In France.
CHERBoURG, July 6.-The shah al
rived in this harbor yesterday Afternoon
on board the British steamer Rapid. A
night numerous bonfires were lighted Of
the shore, and the shipping IN the haT
Dor was hung with Chinese lanterns
making very brilliant spectacle. HI
majesty disembarked to-day.
N PARIs, July 6.-The train bearing tn
shah of Persia and suit entered Pass,
station at half past six this morning
where the distinguished visitor was re
eeived by President MaeMahon anC
Duke DeBroglie at the Arch of Tri
umph. The shah was met by the pre-
feet of Seine and the municipal council
4. lors. NJ. Van Train delivered an ad
dress of welcome, to which the shah brief
ly replied. His majesty was then escorted
to Palais Bourbon, where he was re
ceived by M. Buffet, president of the as
sembly. The crowds of spectators wer(
immense, and the shah had a warn
particular reception.
Items of Interest from New York.
NEW YORK, July 6.-The Herald pub.
fishes the report of the State park com.
2 mission appointed by the last legisla-
ture, who favor the conversion into q
State park of an immense tract of land
almost entirely in the Adirondacks,
much frequented by tourists, and cover
ing about eight hundred and thirty-fouI
thousand acres, which, when finished
would be the largest park in the world
but one-the United States park on the
Yellowstone river.
Since the abolition of the ranking
privilege on the first instant, there has
been marked decrease in the amount
of mail matter passing though the New
York postoffice. The postmaster says
the reform has caused falling of of
eighteen thousand free newspaper ex-
changes during the week.
Six thousand immigrants arrived here
the past week.
| JEFF. Davis leaves Tuesday for Mem
phis.
The number of deaths this week was
six hundred and thirty, an increase of
one hundred and fifty-six over the pre-
vious week.
A dispatch from Houston, Texas,
dated the fifth, says the weather is now
more favorable to the crops and worms
no longer appear in Texas. TwO-thirds
| OF the crops of cotton and cereals are
very fine. The blacks had just ad-
journed an exclusively colored State con-
vention, and refused to indorse Cover
nor Davis.
Captain William Western, of the
steamship Aragon, was arrested yester-
day charged with having committed an
outrage, during voyage in 1871, upon
young woman named Margaret o. Con-
nOr, now a resident of Brooklyn. The
captain claims entire innocence.
POstOf1Ice-Order Forger Arrested d.
dftiOEaI Particulars OF the Recent
TOrnadOes.
ST. LOUIS, July 6.-John D. Gillespie,
charged with the forgery of postOfice- |
orders, in Pennington, Minnesota, last |
April, was brought here yesterday from |
Poplar Bluffs, Missouri, where ne was
arrested, and will be sent to st. Paul to- |
morrow.
Accounts begin to arrive giving some
details of the late storms in the west. /
In the vicinity of DesMoines, Iowa, the
country was deluged and wheat and |
oats badly broken down. Along the
line of the Rock Island railroad the hail
storm did still greater damage. A farm
house near Stuart's Station was blown /
to pieces, and another one near by
blown down and five persons Sc
riOusly injured. AT Alexandria sew
eral houses We're blown down.
The bridge of the M. " and W. railroad
crossing the Des MOines river, was blown
down and the culverts were washed out.
Great damage was done in Hancock
county, Illinois, farm-hOuses and barns
being blown down, and two churches
leveled to the ground, and the steeple OF
the Presbyterian church blown off. The
grain elevator was also blown over and
a great many houses unrOOfed, and
much other damage done to crops.
fences, etc. At Carthage the high-schOol
and part of the college was unroofed,
aud fences, chimneys, etc, demolished
At West Point the dwelling of DR.. Ca
rey was torn in pieces, and the stores of
Wolf d COndin and Frank q Howerton
destroyed, a schOOl-hOuse was blown
down, a carding- machine factory and
unrOOfed, and the dwelling
)f Henry Garner blown down, and Mrs.
Garner, her child and sister kilIesl. AT
W Warsaw several houses were demolished |
between the Pressden,
of Hay ti aad HOn- Charles Summer.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-The following
etter from Nisage Sagel, president OF
he republic of Hayti, to Hon. Charles
sumner, has been received:
REPUBLIC OF HAITI, PoRT AU PR1NcE,) !
September p, IS72
Slxty-ninth year of independence. {
HONORABLE SENATOR-I seize eager
Y the good opportunity offered me by |
he departure of our minister, citizen S. !
Preston, to pray you to receive testimony 5
II my high consideration, which does
lot cease to grow by reason of eminent
ervice which you render daily to the |
noble cause of an oppressed people. l 1
hOuld consider myself as failing in one 5
# my most imperious duties If l did not T
express to you the sentiments of graft I
ude which your name awakens in the I
,reast of every one belonging to the AT =
ican race. In assuming the defense of t
he rights of this people, guided by the {
most generous instincts of your rich ma. 5
ure, and by sincere love of Justice, b
'ou have acquired the immortal graft a
ude of all the descendants of the Afri- il
an race. Please receive this feeble ex- {
ression of my high esteem for the char .
cter of an illustrious citizen, and 0
elieve in the depth of the sentiments d
1itb which l declare myself, honorable y
enator, your devoted friend, o
lSignedl MES SIE sAGET
Inc IOliOWlng Is Mr.. summers answer. v
WAsHINGroN, July 4, 1873. Q
cannot, at this late day, aeknowl- L
dge the letter with which YOU have b
OnOred nle without explaining the e
sason of my delay. Owing to my alb n
ence In Europe, where had gone for q
ealth, L did not receive your valuable b
until some time in the n
inter, when it was Uut in my hands by il
our excellent minister. Continuing 0
,eble in health, | reluctantly postponed el
iis acknowledgement now take ad- tS
antage of my eOnvalesence to do thus 81
Irdily what my feelings prompted at b
Il earlier day. Please, sir, accept fr
~ thanks for your generous q
DpreciatiOn OF what have ii
one, and your kindness in telling me hi
hat it is under your own hand, but I in
eg you TO understand that do not de- OF
rive the praise with which you houor sc
ie in advocating the cause of an op- to
-essed people. l have only acted ac- in
riding to my conscience. L could not th
ave done otherwise, and now my only re
'gret is that have done so little. | th
ish | had done more in the history of NJ
ankind. The crime against the Afri fa
IN race will stand forth in terrible en- U
enee- always observed and never for dc
)tten. just in proportion as civil te
alton prevails will this enor- M
ous wrong be apparent in its or
ue character. Men viii read with as pr
how human beings, guilty hi
lily of being black, were sold into slav- fa
Y, and then such was the continuing as
Justice toward this unhappy people, oV
wv when slavery ceased they were still TO
eated with indignity by persons whose sti
rdly pretensions were founded on the SCI
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