Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-03-19
THE FALSE CHARGES,
SRat Tn Press Has 10 Say About Them
-Ths Supposed Author catches
Ii on Ali Sides.
No One Believes His Statement-Tbe
New Orleans Times In a Very
Discredltable Position.
Evening Ledger, Of yesterday. edi,oriaII


cllned 10 keepthe whole world in a stew,
} Is iaf as II can. Here, when our Legislators
are just about coming ont all right and
smoothly from the charges of bribery
ana corruption In the recent senatorial
contest, which the Times set up against
them, 1t comes once more with serious
'charge" against our cotemporary of
Jefferson street, which VIC think must
De groundless and slanderous. The
Times OF the fifteenth contains the fol-
lowIng editorial paragraph:
The Memphis Avalanche of Friday
contained malicious paragraph reflect
ing upon one Of the 1in1e8'8 attaches.
Evidently the paragraph was written
by the same individual who, a few
months ago, had his face slapped pub
Icly by the gentleman the paragraph
referred to-"
The savage lines just quoted are in
reply to publication in the Avalanche,
which we append:
''EDIToRs AvAIAECHE-In your is
Sue OF this date, speaking Of the charge
made by the New Orleans Times OF
bribery, corruption, etc., of the Shelby
! county delegation in the election of Mr..
johnson to the United States senate,
l see you speak Of H. L. Smith es the
probable author Of such charges. Will
you let the public know if this man
! Smith is the same Smith who, report
/ says, was discharged by the editors of
! the Memphis APPEAL, and also by the
Memphis ECeni1g Ledger, for black
mailing steamboats, and steamboat
clerks-Smith being river editor Of the
above mentioned papers; also the same
Smith who was correspondent Of some
of the CINCINNATI daily papers, and who
! xuyfIf If,rIl ~
maligned and plainly wrote false and
caluminOus report or letter about the
/ Memphi ball Of 1874, and the same who
had TO swallow the lie about it so many
times, and who, on account of such |
lying reports, was denied the society of |
any decent man, black and white in the |
city, until public opinion forced the |
truth-speaking gent out Of Memphis, to |
show his filth in some other place? The |
Memphi society of 1874 is reported to |
have refused Mr.. Smith an invitation to |
the Eemphi ball hence his lies about it. |
CIGAR-BOX."
He is the same fellow, but whether
he is the author of the charges against
johnson, we are not informed. He is
generally credited with the authorship,
because be is in the service of the New
Orleans Times, and the evidence Of au.
thOrship is traced to him.-Ed. dUd-
L0nche.
Nothing in the above justifies the
Times to individualiZe the author of the
editorial comments attached to what
"Cigar Box" says it does, and the
matter should undergo searching sin
vestigation,n for it is not proper for
either Mr.. johnson or his friends to
stand under such charge as the Times
makes, which we believe can be proved
to be false.
Evening Ledger Of yesterday, Iocal.1
There is prospect of a duel between
the river reporter of the avalanche and
the river man of the New Orleans Times.
The Avalanche some days ago charged
that the IEnles'S article with reference to
A. J. and the "nine" were inspired by
q gentleman formerly connected with
the press of Memphis, and pitched into
said gentleman on general principles
and on suspicion; but now the Iinle8's
river man comes back in an editorial
paragraph as follows:
''The Memphis Avalanche of Friday
last contained a malicious paragraph
rejecting upon one Of the Iin1es'S at
tGcheS. Evidently the paragraph was
written by the same individual who, a
few months ago, had his face slapped
publiClJ lhO J1O pAld- |
graphist referred to-"
The New Orleans man, Mr.. II. L.
Smith, refers to q little skirmish in.
dulged in with Mr.. Will Trask, of the
Avalanche, on the corner of Main and
Madison, fight most amusing to look
ers-on and resulting barmiessly to both
combatants. But now the thing must
result in "g-o-r e." a word always en-
phssized by the avalanche men, who
occasionally change it and use instead
the dread word "blood." Probably a
special investigating committee ought
to be appointed to send for persons and
papers and investigate this street fight
referred to. II the names of the wit
nesses are furnished by the Times, Hop
johnson, Of the APPEAL, will go around
and interview each one Of them in the
most prOsy style. Should a duel take
place it must be fought at long range,
the distance being about four hundred
and fifty miles by rail, and about seven
hundred aid fifty by river. The duel
must of course be fought by the river
route, as both gentlemen are connected
with the "Wet endsn of their respective
Journals. AS both men are friends of
ours, we respectfully suggest that the
fight come off in the morning, so that
the Ledger can have q detailed account
of the affair and its results.
Avalanche Of tuesday,
The Times, which has already ira
versed its own statements, has been vic
timized by some charscterless adven-
turer whose malice OutTuns his discre-
ton, and who would be unable to recog- |
niZe truth il he met one on the streets.
But as the matter has gone thus far, we |
also call on the gentlemen mentioned |
above to testify over their own sigma
lures. II there is the shadow of foun-
dation for the charge, let us have it.
Two of the number-Messrs. Rhea and
Brepnan-have already editOrially in |
the Ledger, admitted the absurdity of
the TImeS'S slander. The others, as
truthful gentlemen, will also do so If
they deem the matter Of sufficient i'm
portance to speak at all. That portion
Of an editorial in yesterdays Ledger
bearing on the point is printed else
where.
Nashville Banner.l
The Memphis Avalanche says that
"the charges in regard to Johnson's
election made in the New Orleans
Tines are generally credited to one II.
l.. Smith, who is now in the service of
that paper, ana who was dismissed last
year from LQe APPEAL anu L6ug6Ts | ,
and that he is the same correspondent |
who furnished the Objectionable letter
to the Louisville and Cincinnati papers
about the Memphis carnival ball Of
1874.
Washington Correspondence New York Tri-
bune.l
Mr.. johnson spoke in a laughing
way of the matter, and said that there
were several reasons why the allegs-
tons could not be true. 1t was only
necessary TO mention one, namely: that
since the failure OF Jay Cook & Co, by
which he lost about seventy thousand
dOllars-his whole fCrtune-he has never
had money enough to pay for an cleo
ton at the usual rates.
Savannah CGa.) News.l
This is very probably a lie manufac-
tured out of whole cloth by the parties
in the Tennessee legislature who recent
ly got up the lying petition in favor OF
the passage of the force bill, to which
they signed the names of several white
and all the negro members of that body.
Nashville Correspondent OF the Louisville
COurier-Journall
The New Orleans Times man cannot
be heard from in response to the tele-
gram sent him by the chairman Of the
joint committee of investigation, raised
to inquire into the rumOrs in connection