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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-01
Fse Samoan Kingdom.
Cincinnati CommerciaII


Here, now, is a great international,
naval, diplomatic, missionary enter
prise Tor you! President Grant, whom
We fondIy supposed to have been cured
| by his untiatteTing San Domingo oXpe-
rience of hankeriDg after islands il the
vastly deep, has gone step beyond the
intervention which the isnd'hungSy,
annexiLg Seward permitted himself
when secretary Of state. The President,
| it appears, has 50 little 20 do 81 home
| that he smuses his leisure with setting
up governments ten thousand mites of
among the untUtOred savages Otthe lone
| Pacific. He sends q United States war
| vessel, he loads it with cannon and am
munitiOn, intended to maintain the SUI
tonOmy of the new Samoan govern
ment. He commissions an American
citizen Of German descent to represent
the United States and its sympathetic
President ct the court OF this newly &C.
tablished monarchy. But this AmeTi-
can citizen Of German descent is too
accomplished and ambitious a diplomat
to be satisfied with these merely dipIc-
mstic functions. He is not only the rep
.resentaJive OF the United States govern
ment; he ia the prime minister Of the
Samoan government This double
barreled diplomatic, like 1.-TWO flowers
upon sirgie stalk, two hearts that beat
IS One," with his cannon and his pal
aver, his skill in diplomacy and his let
ter from President Grant, has captured
the hearts and the government Of the
Sam0aus. The amjabie savage who has
been elected king for four years vields
Only barren scepIeT, while the lofty
S.eiGGergeE exercises vice-regai author
ity, and viii mold the des.iuiss Of the
SamO8ns at his own sweet will. He
knows they have got good govern
ment, for he made il himself But
where, let US ask, does the President Of
the United States ind his authority for
equipping United States WaT-vessel5 10
establish prOtectOrates over savage
islanders in the Pacific ocean? In what
part Of the constitution, or what volume
of the laws, can be found the power to
take the cannon and munitions OF war
OF the United States and present them
to foreign governments? Where in the
unwritten law Of nations, or in the
written law of this republic, can be
shown the warrant for officers Of the
United States becoming, while such
officers, q part of the govern
ment 81 foreign power? Where in
the naval regulations is it laid down that
a United States lisu- enart OF msIiuss
may teeOme an Ambassador from one
foreign nation to another, without c5a5-
ing to be an officer in the american |
navy? Has congress authorized this IL /
with the government or the |
affairs Of the natives Of the Pacific? Has |
the President been empowered to estab- /
lish a quasi prOteCtOrste over the Navi-
gators Islands with a view, immediate 4
or remote, OF their annexation to the /
United States II not, why this Grant |
naval-diplOmatic enter ]
prise? Why this iHlpeTiun1 in inlperio? /
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THE nORnOg RELIG-
IoTN FREEDOH.

EOES FREEDOM.
We are in favor Of the largest religious
freedom; hut We join in the opinion
which seems to have taken posses sion
O. the country, that the United States
government cannot longer afford to
permit the fostering sore OF Mcrmonism
to remain upon the body polite. It is
a mOckeTy Of religion to speak Of such q
bloody and cruel band Of thieves and
Ted-hsndeo murdeTers as a religious sect
1t is sacriIege 70 csll such an organize
ton a "church." If Mormonism can be
protected on the ground Of constitutional
liberty, then will our government be
required 10 protect feticbism and these
religious sacrifices which demanded the
immolstiOa Of g hecztOmb Of victims.
II everything that is called religion OF
a church Is 10 be protected, then
the hesthens can locate upon Amer
lean coil and burn their children,
aud sacrifice 3 holocaust OF vic
Tins Is 2 religious offering. The en-.
tire system Of Normonism is q gigantic
crime, and crime is its natural product
Murder, robbery, lust, RIGHTEOUSNESS ant
villaiuy Of all kinds have characterized
what, by a PROCLAMATION Of language, il
called q church. q religious demon
nation" The people Of the United
States cherish 3 traditional love for the
largest religious freedom, but they can
not tolerate that freedom which requires
its votsries to be asssssins, 70 cut the
tbToats of innocent women and chill
dren. Such religion should be extir'
psted. This is due TO those religious
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IT is useless, we know, to argue witt
the World. That paper dare not allow
the true sentiments of the south to bt
known. But its course is understood
and its interested advocacy of resump,
ton at any price is easily explained
The World is no longer recognized il
this latitude as the exponent OF Demo
cratic opinion, and we already heal
Democratic leaders declare that, under
10 circumstances, will they vote for 3
Tsmmsny candidate. The World and
its clique Of office rabbers must stand
aside, or be run Charleston NeaUS
and Courier.
Our cotemporary is right. The World
snd the 1ammany mOney-clique are
known for what they are worth at the
south, and will not be permitted, rs in
1865, to control andsmanage the affairs
Of the Democratic party in 1876, and, as
then, dictate its nominations. The
south and the west viii stand together
for q greenback platform and nomina-
lions that will NEST the wishes OF the
people, and give assurance OF success.
The World and its hard-money coterie
will have to take back seat. We say
this liz no dictatorial sense, but as ex-
pressing what we believe to be the SEN
timents of the people of the west and
south, and many Of those of the east.
The people have for ten years been car
ryiDg eight to ten hundred millions Of the
lon-interest paying bonds of the govern
nent, and they are unwilling any longer
o be taxed with.that load in addition to
saying interest on the bonds which
.reate and support favored class. We
ire against the World, the flesh and the
ieyii, and for the people.
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GEORGIA NEWS.
Quitmanshss the Gypsies.

Quitmanshss the Gypsies.
Base ball is epidemic in Georgia.
M'Duffee county has 8 callard stalk
ten feet hight.
Benjamin w. Holt, ono of the propTie.
| tore of the 5andersville Herald, died last
week.
Saturday last Savannah shipped H.
373 melons to Philadelphia, New York
and Boston.
-Four hundred and thirty-two rats were
| killed in one mans baIn in M'Duffie
county the other day.
Another Irwin county man killed in
two months il q small field fifteen ad-
ders and two rattleanakes.
Colonel Logan f. Becky, Of Atlanta,
has declined to accept position on the
supreme bench of the State,
One day last week twelve thousand
WatermelOns were shipped from Holly
wood station, on the Central Tli;rOsd,
twelve mile from Augusta.
The Democrat says the crop prospec!
in Decatur county is gloomy indeed.
The whole county is furnishing for rain.
In that county there are 20, 9SS acres in
corn, and 10, 235 in cotton.
The recent warm weather has SO heat
ed the waters Of q logon near Column
bus, that the fish are dying On Mon
day last about fifteen bushels Of fish
trout, perch and blscBfish-were float
ing on the surface.
Marietta is excited over a small anon
ymous paper, called Jonah's GGuTdVine,
which prints matter neither decent nor
palatabIe about any and everybody.
1t has been discovered that the paper
was brought from Rome, and steps have
been taken to investigate the matter.
Augusta ConstitutiOnalist: Ohio De-
mOcTacy.-The Nashville Union and
american thinks the opposition to Gov
ernOr Allen and the Ohio platform comes
from national bank organs" We DO
not know as to that, but perhaps the
Baltimore Gazette can tell US something
about it.
Columbus Enquirer: Farmers are get
ting very blue. The complaint is gen
eraI, aud comes from almost every pOr-
ton of this section, that if rain does not
soon come the corn crop will be ruined.
Even in those quarters where showers
have fallen the sun has been so hot as to
quickly bake and Parch the earth.
Blakely News: A new grange move
ment is on foot in this county, we under
stand. Some southern yankee has
sprung trick upon the darkies, and is
Going for their dollars. He has organ.
lied a grange for the darkies, the leading
idea of which is to reduce the price of
corn to forty cents per bushel and bacon
to eight cents per pound. Initiation one
dollar.
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MTSSISSIPPI NEWS.

Meridian has q new paper called the
Southern Baptist.
The Friars Point Delta IS publishing
homemade poetry by a young lady o.
| that town,
The Aberdeen Examiner is receiving
wstermeiors, sweet potatoes and broom
corn; no cotton blooms.
The Pitt5bOrO Times complains of hot
weather, fire crops, temperance ClULsi
! and surplus existence OF dogs.
The Democracy OF Tippah county has
appointed THONGS Spight, w. G. F&lk.
neT, F. a. Wolfe, w. A. Boyd and c.
o. Slower delegates TO the State cOnyen.
! ton.
PittsbCro Times: The corn crops in
this county are better than they have
! been aE this Sc a5OD since the war. It il
feared by some that the cotton Is grow
| ing too fast.
Aberdeen Examiner: Saturday, the
/ TWEEN y-fOurth instant, the first corn Of
| the new crop was delivered at Shell &
| StOups mills, in Aberdeen, by Mr. John
| NJ. Rye, who farms near Athena, IN
! this county, and was st once converted
into meal. This is the first new corn in
mill that Re have heard OF in Missis.
sippi.
The PittsborO Times, in blunt srti-
Gle, says: "BlOunt says we could not be
elected to the Office Of bsiiiff OF the beat
Fin which we live" Well, that is owing
lnntirely to who would oppose US. We
s6Sa satisfied, should we have only the
ssditoT of the DemOcrst to oppose, We
would defeat him by q handsome ma.
joTity.
Frisrs Point Delta: We regret to
learn that on last Tuesday the fence of
Major Alcorr's plantation was set on
fire. This could not be an accident, as
the fence began to burn several hundred
yards from anything that could cause
fire. Two white men were seen running
away from the place about the time the
fire begun, which indicates that it was
the work of an incendiary. Besides
this, it is said that five hundred dollars
have been offered to the negroes on the
place to set fire to tine maj Or's gin
house.
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10 TIE FIFTH Maryland.
BY e. +.

The Christian at Work.
When the Fifth Maryland regiment
arrived at Boston, to aid in celebrating
the centennial Of Bunker bill, their first
act was to deposit superb offering OF
flowers upon the monument erected
there t0 commemorate the soldiers killed
in the war FOR the Union. The following
lines were written in connection there
with by gifted lady Of Boston:
'Bove northern graves, that summer tears
In pledge of peace, divided hands have met;
And on the monument that DER them towers
Our Juthern heroes have laid down Their fiOw-
n token OF a sweet regretting,
These lives, Witt setting.
Our sleeping soldiers have their hOnors won:
But chaugless as the spIendcr Of the sun,
ms act, through coming centuries shall
As noble impulse Of a love divine;
As conquered slaves their victories buying
Brarer than d. Ing.
one hundred years ago the patriots fought,
And with their blood this contry S freedom
Martyred, for north and south and east and
west
Beloved children on one mothers breast;
And 10, these flowers, in conservation,
Unite the nation.
o! if the wind blown seeds make earth's in
crease,
How rich will be your hGrreSting OF Peace;
For, waited upward noble deeds shall bear
DIyInest blossoms, making heaven more fair
Immortal sweetness eXhaling
And never pallng.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-01

THERE is a shooting club in the city
to which mary leading citizens belong,
who object to the publication Of their
prseicing or matches. We have had
several communications upon the sub
ject, and, notwithstanding our vigil
ance, paragraphs have crept into the
APPEAL, authorized, perhaps, by such
of the members as believe in publicity.
AS the doiDgs of this club do not con-
Germ the public in an especial sense,
warranting US in a continuation Of pub
LEGATION thereof, this is TO give notice 20
all concerned that we will hereafter de-
cline to notice the club in any way eX-
cept at the instance Of majority OF the
M am hers
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THOU AND 1.

Strange, strange for thee and me,
Sadly afar;
Thou safe beyond, above,
1 meath the star.
Thou where flowers GREATNESS spring,
where they fade;
Thou in Gods paradise,
l mid times shaded
Thou where each gale breathes balm,
l tempeSt-tO ssed;
Thou where true Joy is r. uud,
] where It's lest;
Thou counting ages thine.
1 not the morrow:
Thou learning more Of bliss.
more of sorrow.
Thou in eternal peace,
/ mil eaTth's strife.
Thou where care hath no name.
1 where Ills life;
Thou without need Of nope,
/ where tissvaiu-
Thou vi Ia wings dropping El..
I with times Grain.
Strange, strange for thee and me,
Loved, loving ever
Thou by LIES deafness fruuF
near Death : river
Thou winning VISIONS love,
l Streng' n Co trus-;
Thou mid the seraphim,
/ in the DUST
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-01

Come back from the west, thou lone-hearted
lis not a tit home for an Orphean son;
Tho bright SUNS may circle and wheel THO
the air,
Their beams are delusIve, their smiles but q
Then come, lone one, come back from the
Tennessee IS a r0se-,neath her petals there's
rest.
on quiz the wild west! It's false-colored sky
| Can never with Tennessee's crimson-cloUds
Vie:
Its sunsets are mock ry, they lure but to cheat
| It's forests are jungles where savages meet.
| Then quit The wild west! unto Tennessee
Come, hear the gin hum while the thresheI
keeps time.
Come back from the west! its praire plains
They are but false carpets, that dazzle the
The zephyrs go singing their sOoth1ngest
slaves"
Transforming YOU freemen to absolute slaves.
Come out of The west, TO this fair, sunny land
| Refinement and Freedom walk here hand in
hand.
Come back from the west! let its forests re-
with the yell Of the hunter and bay OF the
You forget the red savage, whose wierd whOop
Fills your heart with despair rs he scalps your
Then come from the west, into tair Tennessee!
From her sons you may learn TO be happy and
free.
Come back from the west! look on fair
View Tennessee, sitting her throne like a
Come view her clear streams that laugh as
they winu
A serpentine course, their "Great Father" TO
Come view their "Great Father" who kisses
the side
Come back from the west! our goIden-grain'd
Like he ocean, doth wave, when to storm
Our broad fields OF cotton, so whitish they
grow,
While our wide-spreading acres OF waving,
Crown Tennessee's hills and her valleys adorn.
Come back from the west! thy home the
Bids thee come from that land of grasshop-
From those insects, in numbers, that darken
That sweep Ser thy fields and leave them so
bare.
Thy dear, native home, calls thee back to her
bowers,
Where the bee sips the sweetness from care
cultured flowers.
Come back from the west! Why 60 you still
Why seek in that desolate cline for home?
Fair Tennessee becks you to come TO her
shores,
Where peace smiles on plenty-both open
their doors.
Then quit the wild vest Come dwell here
Where the Cline is as fair as your bright west
ern sky.
Come out of the west! From far and from
Collect all the roamers who claim a home
Gather all of them up who have here had
their BIRTH
With faces turned eastward, with hearts
beatiDG-One,
Strike cut Tor this land, this bright land of
the Sun.
Come back from the west! Bring with you
brave hearts
And stout, brawny arms that are skilled in
the arts;
Let the Ratchet, and hammer, and ak take
their part
In the din that is heard in a great noisy
mart.
With the, pillow, hoe and harrow We'll tickle
the field,
TIL it gives nan. and beast a most bountiful
WELD.
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When Robson instructed a naval Off
Ger 70 lend to the Baez government Of
San Domingo, the moral support of his
guns, the country cried-'StOpw And
/ il there is any more specializing in dy-
nastiss or in prOtec.oTates, or in rich
islands going forward, the country will
again cry stop whether President
Grant likes il or not.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-01

A PARAGRAPH in the Estate News"
department of the APPEAL Of last week
gave our esteemed Contemporary 0; the
Columbia Journal offense. We regret
the occurrence, and assure the Journal
that it is right when it attributes to the
editors of the APPEAL higher motives,
and more digpifed method of dealing
with its adVers9Tics.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-01

AFTER 80 many years Of public neg.
lect, England has at last taken the mi.
tiative steIs toward great statue to the
memory of Lord Byron. We copy into
the APPEAL Of this morning the pro-
ceedings Of the meeting held in Lon
don, over which Mr.. Disrseli presided,
aud at which he paid worthy tribute
to the great poet. The friends of Byron,
and Of his family, were present in force,
and his son-in-law, Earl LoveIace, as il
to give fJrcible contradiction to the
ISLANDERS Of the father OF his dead wife,
wss present and made q speech, which
is invested with peculiar interest. Mr..
George Augustus Sala and General
Wilson, besides Mr.. Disraeli, were the
only literary men of any prominence
present on an occasion that should have
rallied every writer of the day, from
the poet laureate through the whole
long list. Reference was of course
had to the assumed irregularity of life
and habits Of the poet, but We are glad
to know in terms that were creditable
to the speakers. 1t was the habit, even
twenty years ago, for men aft jcted with
an affected morality to decry the man
whose lines they had read in secret, and
to denOunce those of them, especially,
which most, they thought, contained a
chief charm and compensation for idle
hours. But that time has passed, on
this as on the other side Of the water,
and Byron is at last likely to receive,
not merely the praise, but the honors
due him. We chronicle this movement
with great pleasure, and urge upon our
countrymen in every State to contribute
as their means will allow, to maintain
the promises made by General Wilson.
We should be glad to see monument
to the great poet quite equal TO that
which Scottish gratitude has raised to
Scott, the greatest Of her Ministries.
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The struggle Of lovely woman to secure
place in the ranks with unlOvely man
has just met with the customary misfJr-
tune in San Francisco. One morning
there was q stir and flutteT in the report
ers' place IN the San Francisco police
court. Two lady reporters entered and
took their seats, pulled out nice, new note.
bOOks and began their work placidly.
At first the cases were unexciting, and
the lady reporters worked away jealous
ly and pleasantly. Then followed the
trial Of cases where the evidence was
peculiar, and the two young ladies
evinced signs of nervousness, Then
came case wherein the sole point at
issue seemed to be the respective ability
Of two females Of the class who mus. be
known to be appreciated to hurl choice
billingagate. The testimony was OF a
kind 10 make the knOtted and com bined
locks Of hearers to part and each paIti-
cular hsir to stand on end with trepida-
ton, not unmingled with disgust, The
evidence was necessarily not toned
down, but given in its original form,
just as civet goes to the manufacturer.
Then the youLg lady reporters turned
pink and subsequently crimson, and
then they gathered their robes about
them and silently left the court. Police
court reporting is not a desirable special
ty for lady journalists, evidently.
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A PETITION was ia circulation yester-
day, and numerousiy sigGed by meT-
chants and Others, addressed to the
chambe Of commerce, urging upon the
signal service bureau the appointment
of two or three signal officers to be
located on the Tennessee river-say
Chattanooga, Decatur ard Jacksonville,
We hope General Myers will give it,
when forwarded to him through the
chamber of commerce, his immediate
attention. He has, We understand, the
means at his disposal, and the men.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-01

A lady is now living in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, who was once famous, and
word 10 the English LANGUAGE. Mis-.
Blo0mer nearly thirty years ago aba1-
doned the hideOus costume which bears
her name, and took refuge in longer
ampler and prettier, if not more con-
venient skirts. She is the cOtempOTary
and personal friend of Elizabeth Cady
- ~ a IopUar and real osfsto doaIa-
OF Council Bluffs. She and her hus-
band have long been "wheel-horses" Of
the Republican party in their section of
Iowa. They are wealthy, childless, and
unknown TO any but local fame.
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A Pennsylvania woman writes as Iol-
lows to the New York Tribune. we
hope that there are many more like her
in the good old State: chow glorious to
be q woman-the mother of men; to
understand ones prerogatives, and be
able to seize them without noise; to
have husband who counts you in value
above rubies, and whose heart doth
safely trust in you; to have as heaven
appointed task the moulding Of the
hearts and condolences OF sons and
daughters; to feel that by Gods grace
you will be able to DO it; to know that
you have left no womaniy eudesvor I'M
done to found the principles of our
children upon the pattern of the
rock that is higher than US all.
Six sODs have 1.-TWO of them men; four
daughters are mine-two just budding
into womanhood; they are my cOmpan-
ionsi yea, my unwilling instructors in
the law Of uprightness. Do l have to
seek for an affinity? Not I. AMI
lonesome? Never. Do l sigh for the
infinite? l have it."
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For the Sunday Appeal
DEFFIDENCE.
BY j. W. VI.

Upon Ambitions precipice 1 stand,
Fate's river RACES sullenly before,
Beyond ] see fair Fame; her tickle hand
Doth clasp and wave elOtJ her golden wand
To tempt me on to seek the further shore.
But ali! the rivers deep, and swift aEi wide
No welcome bridge doth span the current
nigh,
And he who would attain the other side,
By plunging blindIy in the ireaCuerOus tide,
Must mold more aspiring heart than ].
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A woman named Elizabeth TAYLOR
appeared before the Warrington bench Of
magistrates 10 England the other day,
on q charge OF being drunk and disoT-
DERBY. She appeared st the dock in
male attire, and the chief constable, ia
detailing come other sntecedents, stated
that she was the daughter % 8 gentle
man who formerly lived a. Penketh,
near Warrington. She had been mar
T!ed, but her husband was killed twenty
one years ago. She commenced to wear
male attire thirteen years ago, was en-
piOyed as a sailor during the American
war, and made several trips from South
Wales to the American coast, in order
to supply the Alabama and blockade
runners with coal. She wss known by
the name Of happy Ned, aud FOR some
time pas had worked As a labOrer on
several farms in the usighbJrhOOd OF
Warrington, having 50 late as the
twelfth uItimO helped tn kill thirteen
pigs for a farmer st Croft house, She
was tiued five shiliings and costs.
Here is a haven for refuge for the
noble army Of the brOthers-in-lsw. after
the fourth Of March, 1871. The Next
can pOstOfice at the station OF Uruspam
In the State OF MichOscan, has been nm
able to end anybody who would accent
tie charge Of it. Ard yet there are peo-
pie who persist in talking OF Mexico as
II 1t were haltcivilized country
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or the Sunday Appeal
COME BACK FROM THE WEST.

Respectfully dedicated 10 TtrgiHius HVtchcn,
lrhg has wandered from ms peaceful. SUNNI
southern home 10 the far distant JUeSt, trheTe he
r-0T hOtUlsth, and tCheTs the red man rbOOpeth
as h, rlshsth JrdHtiodAy 0ueT the JrdT-J path.