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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

FROM ali parIs Of The country we have
the welcome intelligence Of revival OF
business, consequent upon the Demo-
cratic victories which have infused into
the minds Of men north as well as
south confidence that the change in
public affairs necessary to reinvigOrate
their dropping energies and elevate
their hopes will be result OF those vic
tories supplemented as they will be by
others to come in 1876. The New York
Graphic, for instance, notes the fact
that as soon as the result Of the recent
elections was known, southern seeuri-
ties advanced from one to three per
cent, and adds that "this is an evidence
that capitalists have more confidence in
the financial affairs of the southern
States when they are governed by white
men than they did when the negroes
were in power. And now the advance
in government securities which began
Immediately after the election is more
marked than ever. 1t is clear that a
better era has come at last, and that the
confidence which the psnic so sadly
shook is returning. AS to the debt Of
the southern States, although it may be
reduced to some extent in consequence
Of the irregular manner in which part of
il was contracted, there is little doubt
now that the holders Of southern bonds
viii ultimately be paid to much more
satisfactory extent than they have late
" had reason TO expect"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

THE advantages Of Tennessee IS the
future great manufacturing center sre
every day becoming more and better
known 10 manufacturers abroad. A
late number Of the american Adnlfdc-
turer, Of Pittsburg, has an article COM
pairing the cost Of making iron at Chat.
tanoOga, having particular reference to
the furnace Of the Chattanooga iron
company, at Redwood, at Pittsburg,
using lake ores, and near Pittsburg,
using native ores. The following are
his figures: Chattanooga, October, 1874,
total weight Of materials per ton Of pig,
II, 4l9; cost per ton, SD "A. lockwood,
December, 1872, weight Of material,
1887; cost per ton, Sl4 Is. January, 1873,
weight Of material, 1889; cost per ton,
SIS 81. Pittsburg furnace No. /, Octo-
berr 1874, weight Of material, 764O; cost
per ton, SD 49,. Furnace No. ,, Octo-
Der, 1874, weight Of material, 1925; cost
per ton, SIS OF. Near Pittsburg, aver
age of July, August and September,
1874 weight of material, II, $40; cost
Der ton, $40 so.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

Vellernin, which, II true, is disgrace
our State must wipe out by the prompt
pursuit and arrest OF Tie criminals who
are responsible for IL, Mr.. Killibrew
may w-ite and thu State print and pub
lish a hundred volumes setting forth the
advantages OF Tennessee as a place Of
settlement for immigrants, but unless
we punish crime It viii go for nothing,
Peace is necessary TO safety, and safety
10 the acquisition OF wealth. In Gods
name, then, let us have peace.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

ITis rumored that Judge Goldthwaite,
United States senator from Alabama, is
about to resign, on account Of continued
bad health. AS the legislature is Dem
ocratie by thirty majority on joint bal
lot, there eau be no doubt of the election
Of Democrat 70 fill Senator Gold
thwaite'splace. Among those spoken OF
for ii, are General John 7. Morgan,
Hon. J. L. PUgh, Of ante belltDl days,
and Colonel sykes, Of Moulton, who
was legitimately elected in 1872, instead
Of the upstart Spencer. Governor
Houston himself may prove a strong
candidate, and, in case Of his election,
the State will still find itself in safe
hands in passing to the gubernatorial
control Of Lieutenant-G Governor Ligon.
There is some very good senatorial
timber in our neighbor State, but il is
thought that General Morgan, who is
an able speaker, advanced thinker, and
able publicist, will be the man selected
to succeed Goldthwaite.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

THE Knoxville Chronicle has learned
that Daniel f. Cooke, of Williamson; F
w. Earnest, Of Washington; J. T. Dun
lap, Of Davidson; and r. nj. McClung,
Of Knox, are candidate for the office q
state comptr0ieT al present filed by
Colonel John G. Burch, who is a can
didate for reelection. Messrs. John L.
Norton, c, A. Lefiingweu, VIII s. Tay-
Tor, and Ed. Burke Pickett, of this city,
are also spoken Of for this high and
responsible Office.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

The governor his issued his proclama-
ton ordering an election in the fourth
congressional district, on the thirty-first
of December to ill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the death Of Hon. John w.
Head. Among the leading Democratic
candidates we find that Hon. Bailie
Peyton and Colonel J. J. Turner, OF
Sumner; Attorney-General George II.
Morgan and Colonel J. P. Murray, Of
Jackson, are urging their claims. One
Wilkinson, United States internsl
revenue official, viii be the Republican
candidate but without the ghost of a
chance for election.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

THE st. Louis Democrat, commenting
on the V. V. Smith effort at revolution
in Arkansas, hopes President Grant will
not give ear to Price or Smith, for that
"whether there is or is not technical
ground for o6Ieeting TO the mode 10
which the new constitution was framed
anu adopted, one thing seems clear,
namely, that the new constitution is the
work of the people of Arkansas, receives
their well-nigh unanimous support, and
has brought peace and order 10 land
long distracted with strife. We have no
doubt that the, President will conclude
TO qet well enough aions.'"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

THE Chicago TTi6aHe, which has just
returned to the Republican fold after
years of labor as an a" Independent" or
gan, says that the proclamation Of 1.-THE
latel Lieutenant Governor Smith, lay
ing claim TO the government which
Baxter has abdicsted, speaks for itself.
We apprehend that Smiths claim has
no substantial basis, nor the support of
8 respectable minority Of the voters in
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

THE good news which sped along the
wires ON the night Of the third instant
Is strengthened every day. The latest
evidence Of this is furnished by the
Washington correspondent of the Gin
cinnad Enquirer, who says that the
latest adyiees ia regard to the Florids
legislature give the Democrats ma
jority on joint ballot OF five members,
thus securing them q United State
senator in place of Gilbert, carpethag-
ger, whose term win expire the fourth
OF March next.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

mean ease, luxury and idleness. With
them, freedom has no blessings unless
they are permitted to have such enjoy
ments and pleasures as only the rich can
afford. In ali parts Of the world, the
laboring masses are compelled to work.
delve and toll necessarily, to escape
nakedness, hunger, destitutioD, want
and pauperism. The colored people,
suddenly emsncipated, seem to have no
fear of these calamities, and they live III
idleness. or fritter away time, which the
white Iaborers Of other countries could
not spare without beggary and psupeT-
ism. If the lsboreTs OF the northern
States, the operatives in the east
ern factories were 10 exercise the
liberties which the negroes Of
the south srrogate, they would
find themselves without employment
and suffering for bread. Freedom does
not mean idleness; but the privilege
Of working where it will pay the most.
Ii is only by industry, energy and fru-
gslity that the lsboring classes can ac-
eumulate that competency which will
enable them to exercise the ease and
comfort which the colored race
avail themselves, notwithstanding
their poverty. When the negro
learns these great lessons he viii become
a thrifty citizen, an invaluable auxiliary
in developing the resources Of the south.
He will supply most Of the needed la
Dor, and thus stop the incessant cry for
foreign immigration. Let the coiored
man dispose Of his gun, cease to waste
his time in discussing politics and at
elections, and join the whites ia finding
out and perpetusting the best system
for developing the resources OF the
south, in settling up the vast rich prai-
ries, valleys aud table lands, in building
sehoolhouses, churches, mills, manulae-
tories, establishing tanneries, opening
gusrries, developing mines, building
machine shops and foundries, introduce
ing blooded-stock, getting up fairs and
premiums for the best productions, both
agricultural and mechanical, and be
viii become a prosperous, happy good
citizen.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

A WASHINGTON correspondent as
signs as one reason for the zeal of Mr..
Dorsey in behalf of Vice Versa Smith
his fear that the present legislature viii
investigate the corruptions by which he
secured his seat in the United States
senate. They have lit is said) evidence
which will certainly involve his ex-
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

WHITE, of the New York Tribune,
welded too trenchant pen for Hays
Of Alabama, and so that scallawag, on
last Sunday, waylaid the correspondent
on the streets Of Washington and as
saulted him vigorously. Hays thus
confessed all that White had written OF
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19
COTTON PRESS!

Reynolds Improved ReYeIv-
ing Screw Cotton Press is ON ex.
hlbitiOn. and for sale, at I96
Main street send for circular.
JO8N H1ANOGUE, Agent.
Memnhss Tenn.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

Mr.. JOHN z. HELMS, Of the Norris
town Gazette, is a candidate for clerk OF
the State senate.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

TIE st. Louis Globe, Of the fifteenth,
publishes the story Of a Freedman
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

r.--.-.----s .s,asessssslr-- wueJner Ii can 10
patiently submitted 10 in Mississippi, or
whether i would bepatiently submitted
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

The Deutscher Bruder-Bund viii give
its fifth annual ball at Cochran hall, to.
morrow-night, and are making ar.
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ETaEs Eel

THE place 10 buy your FISH is at No Q
Il adams streeI, N emp his, at the Whole
sale and Retail Fish Depot. An orders prompt
ly nlled at the lowest market prlce, by
octN l.. FRITZ.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

Vieksburg. A handful OF determined
men are defending the homes Of that
historic city. Once more will the negro
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19
GOOD CHANCE
TO Commence Business.

GTORE-FIXTUREB and well-seIected stock
- of CLOTHING and FURNISHING GOODS,
located at No. 2l9 Main street, under Worsham
House, for sale on long time for good paper.
Proprietor has two places Of business and is
DESTROYS of disposing of one. For particulars
apply TO l.. KAUFMAN, IS1 Main ST.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

Feed Cutters, Corn 81
tors, Czrry Co2bs, 81
Ehovels and shade
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.s.sa.,...- ~ sIsosa ut anu corrupt oTnclais
who, with one or two exceptions, have
,,lnndarad fba nf4hlie treasury and set
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19
WAVBRLY HALL FRUIT FARM
KERR AVENUE.

Tue undersigned Is prepa,,s4 70 EuInF In
Il straw berry and I2aspberrr p Isrrs in qtsg n
titles to suit purchasers. Clrtie-s LETT m
Spicer q Ryan 554 Main street, shall ave
prompt attention. JOHN Z. S'PLCkB
October l& 1874 Mana en-
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DAYLIGHT At LAST!

Gen. Grant has done great act, and with
all our heart we thank him. In the six years
of his Presidency there has been nothing 80
worthy of the author of the Vicksburg cam
paign as the memorandum to Senator Jones
which we published on Saturday. He means
specie payments and nothing else. His mani
festo is formal opening of campaign against
paper money. 1t is proclamation that he will
fight it out on the line of hard money if it
takes oil the rest of his Presidential
existence. just as surely as water will quench
fire. the President will e1tinguish any scheme
which may be patched up by the Joint Com
mittee appointed to obtain On credit as much
initiation as the President could be humbugged
into giving. He very plainly tells that Com
mittee, and all others whom it may concern,
that he declines to trade on the terms pro-
posed. He is for real gold and silver, and not
any incomprehensible, back action, bond re.
demption continuance for specie payments with
out specie and paper dollars ad ibitum. This
memorandum means that honesty is the best
policy; that the value of the dollar should be
brought back to the old standard. n certain
definite quantity of gold; that the attempt to
substitute for that standard an unlimitel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-08
A RAD MISTAKE.

The Senate Committee on the District of
Columbia missed an enviable opportunity last
week when it reported in favor of cOnfirmin g
the nomination of Lieut. HOxie to be En-
gineer member of the Board of Public Works,
in place of Mr.. Cluss. The removal of MIR.
Cluss was an outrage of such astonishing
erossness that the whole country has cried out
against it. All parties concur in denOuncing
it. The Presidents firmest friends do not at
tempt to defend it, The stanchest Repub-
licans complain that it is one of series OF
plumbers which are working incalculable harm
to the party. Why, then, do not the party
leaders take some effective measures to
correct the mistakes of the President and to
set themselves right before the world
We hope, for the sake of public decency
that the Senate will override the recOmmen-
dations of its Committee and mark its disap-
probation of this scandalOus affair by rejecting
every nomination made to fill Mr.. Cluss's
place. And we sincerely hope that Senators
of all shades of politics will unite in this
expression of independence. Party cOnsidera-
tions ought not to be involved in the issue
and they will not be if the Administration
members allow their sense of duty and pro-
priety to prevail over their natural desire to
Oblge Gen. Grant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-08

approve the first, 1t must be said that It wouid
be better policy to demand more accurate ana
intimate knowledge of the ordinary Eoglsh
branches before bringing in instructions when
are unimportant in comparison with these. IL
Is not so much quantity that we want in COM
mOn-school education as it is quality. Inc
power freely. promptly. and easily 10
handle O few branches is better than
q capacity for muddling in slip
shod way with q good many. That teach
ers themselves see the faults of the system
we note in long and careful reading OF lnstl-
tute reports from all over the country. Not
few of the speakers adjure their fellows to
teach mot books but subjects" We are al
ways glad to record the best points OF these
meetings. for they are among the chief sources
of encouragement and hope. Nothing could
be better in the present state OF our popular
education than that teachers should compare
notes. The notes may be old and tame, but
there is always possibility of suggestion,
fresh, practical, and available. The meetings.
too, tend to an esprit dm corps which the pro-
fession very much needs. Such sentiment
should not end with the common school teach
ers themselves it will be a fortunate day
when men of science, cultivated college pro-
fessors and presidents, realize that Education
is not thing of cliques, and that they have
duties to their country outside their own
special departments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-08

presented itself. The Custom house people
who came before the Committee devoted
themselves rather to O defense Of their per-
sonal conduct than to an apology for the law,
and the Collector, Surveyor, and Naval Officer
of this port declined to say anything at all.
A good reform bill was speedily reported
from a Committee over which the Custom
house had been supposed to hold q strong
influence, and the House made it better by
striking out the provision for the seizure OF
books and papers, and then passed it by On
emphatic vote.
We warned the merchants not to congratulate
themselves prematurely, for there were fOrmid-
able enemies at work against them who would
yet give trouble. They are found of course
in the Senate where the influence OF public
opinion is comparatively weak and the Custom
house theories of political management are
carried out to their farthest conclusions. The
Senate took the bill and laid it aside for con-
sideratiOn. Then the scheme for defeating it
began to be disclosed 1t was turned over. and
picked to pieces, and put down again, and
postponed, and considered q little more, and
put over till another day. The seizure clause
which the House Indignantly rejected was
restored. multitude of little amendments
were proposed, not because they were needed,
but because they would Obige the House TO
go over its work again. Then somebody dis
covered that the Government would lose
" great deal of revenue" unless the pay
of Custom-house officers was raised by
the same bill which abolished mOieties,
and Mr.. Fenton's plan for the readjustnent
of salaries was tackled on as an additional
amendment and an additional cause OF delay.
Meanwhile day had been fixed for adjourn
ment, and we are now within two weeks OF
the close of the session. Clearly the reform
of the Custom house is in great danger OF
falling through, unless the Senate can be
forced to drop all needless amendments, and
pass the bill as it came from the House.
Mr.. Fenton's bill is a good one, and we
hope to see it become a law, but certain Sena-
tors are only using it now as brickbat tied
about the neck of the Roberts bill to keep it
under water. Let the revision of salaries be
wholly independent measure, and if the
time is too short to pass it this month, is
there any reason why it cannot wait till
December Must the interests of commerce,
the demands of plain justice. and the honor
of the nation be sacrificed in order that a
clique of politicians may collect an enormous
election fund from the NewYOrk Custom
lOusei
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-08
THE MERCHANTS BILL.

The apprehensions we have expressed from
the first about the fate of the Custom house
reform bill in the Senate seem to be fully JUS
titled. The merchants who went to Washing.
ton TO look after the measure pleaded their
cause with such skill and exposed 80 thor
oughly the iniquities of the present system
that to the outside observer their victory
seemed to be assured as soon as the investi-
CATION ended. n Nobody ; seriously opposed
them. Congressman were all polite and SYM
pathetic. , Difficulties that seemed formidable
from distance vanished a. if by enchant-
mept ~ sooa A. he Chambss Of Commerce
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-08
DRY BONES.

DR.. Nelaton, when he had q particularly
delicate and dangerous operation to perform,
handled his instruments and his subject firmly
and slowly, saying, "We have no time to
"hurry." This making haste slowly was one
of the chief rules of his practice, and rule
from which probably came his most wonder
full success. Its wisdom is applicable in divers
directions, and especially in that OF the
American educational system. Want OF
tboroughness is the penalty of its quick
growth. 1t has been so much the fashion with
our national orators to put the common school
idea on O pedestal and dance around
it for the benefit of other countries, that
we are in danger of forgetting that it is not
quite perfection. We do MT want vainglOriOus
trash talked about public schools, but truth
and common sense. They are better than
none and better than they used to be, but
thew are very far from excellence. Their chief
fauIt ia that about which stray speakers in
Teachers Institutes are beginning to preach.
II "a teaching too much from books, with
hooks. 1t is teaching that a thing is so with
ont making inexperence understand why and
how it is so. In these days We have no use
for the old treadmill, the disgraceful system
of rote. From how comparatively few teach
ers do boys and girls learn to do sound orig
inal thinking!
We do not intend to condemn publc-schoOl
teachers as q class. They are hard-wOrking,
they are badly paid, they are generally con-
scientious. But as o rule they are not thor
ouphly prepared for their work. At teach
ers meeting the other day it was stated as
matter of fact that the profession offered so
little incentive to ambition and hope in the
way of salaries and promotion, that its men,
beers could not afford more aud better prep
aration. This is grievous thing to say, but
there is much truth in it. The salaries of
teachers are too small in comparison with the
Importance of their labors, and while they re-
main So the profession itself will necessarily
be deprecated, and its materiel not what it
ought to be. One of the highest employments
in the world should not be made makeshift,
an occupation on the way to something else,
as it too often is. The teacher needs to be
"a severely prepared for his work as the civil
engineer for his, and, not being 80 prepared,
he ia defrauded himself and defrauds in turn
his pupils. 1t is poor economy for tho trus-
tees of country school to take as teach
era a young man temporarily out OF col
lege or academy, or . young woman out OF
pocket money, because they can be engaged
cbeaply.s We believe in large salaries and q
high, uniform, and unvarying standard Of re-
quirement.
There are continually frantic efforts making to
improve tho schools, and to that end are intro
duoed In many places German and music, while
even industrial studies. such a. telegraphy,
are proposed. The last would DO ridiculous
ct this time. and. even while We messugAbly