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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-05

while they themselves want the cotton
Memphis has IN abundance, will Mem
phis or New Orleans become its
objective point? If state OF
things should arrive that Memphis could
supply a want felt in Europe, it is evident
Memphis would get European trade. In any
event, therefore, Memphis is safe to succeed
if the jetties reach the success VIC expect 1t
to achieve. Suppose that hope should prove
vain, which we do not believe, then the posi-
ton of Memphis, which allows US 60 supply
with equal facility an order for New York,
or a call from New Orleans. assures US sue
cess. Let US attend well to our interior con-
dition. Let US settle our debts and be enter
prisIng in our trade, and the fortune of Mem
phis is made. This city is the depot of an
important commerce, and that commerce
will bring success, whether ITS terminating
point be New Orleans on the south, or New
ork on the east. We have most agreeable
| connection with both, but the success of the
lefty system of Eads appears infallibly to
link Memphis with New Orleans and the
Gulf Of Mexico. Nous rerrOns.
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THE PROGRESS OF THE COUNTRY.

The New York Tribune, with all the talent
we must yield to it, has not been of the bou-
yant order of late. II is therefore with
pleasure we select its statement as given be-
low. "The precious metals remain at home, >
says the extract-a gratifying fact: "The
official statement of the foreign commerce of
the whole United States for the first ten
months Of the year is a most extraordinary
one. The imports of goods aggregate 1862, =
003,000, against S413, 1851 COO for the same
period of 1877, showing a decrease of $751;
10000, or at the rate of about twelve and
one-half per cent. The exports of domestic
and foreign products for the ten months have
risen from 1886, $40 900 in 1877 to $599, 073,-
900 this year-an increase of $113, 524, 900,
or at the rate of twenty-three and one fourth
per cent. The trade balance of the ten
months may be summarized as follows
Against impertations Including specie)
amounting to 1897, IA, 779, we have to offset
exports (also including specie) valued at
1922, AIS, $50, leaving balance in our favor
of 1924, $50, Isl, or at the rate Of $280.000,-
600 per annum. Under such a condition of
the trade balance, it is natural that the
precious metals should remain at home, and
hence we find that while we have exported
during the ten months, S23, 1854, 900 of gold
and silver, we have also imported SOS, no.
600, thus adding $2,4l6,000 to our supplies;
while, for the same period of last year, we
xported $25,O0O,OOO more than we i'm
orted"
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fIENIPTTIS APPEAL
THURSDAY, DECEMBER ), 1873,
RrsUuPTION As 1T STANDS

The New York Herald has discussed re-
sumption and the silver question without
taking sides; we can, therefore, take what it
SAYS with a degree of confidence we do not
give TO the papers that are committed to one
side or other of the great question that agi-
tates the country. This paper, in its money
article Of Friday last, says: Considerable
uneasiness exists, but the resumption of
specie payments may fail in condition OF
permanancy." This kind Of expression is
not reassuring. Toe action Of the banks,
however, the Herald intimates, is the best
ground of oonfdence-an admission worthy
of attention. That interested men may
attempt to break down resumption by de-
manding gold for all sorts Of securities, the
Herald forsees, and says: apart from the
difficulty of the Job an act so unpatriotc and
having so many elements of conspiracy about
it would bring down upon the actors the ex-
ecrations of the whole community and posi-
bly, the strong arm of the law" There is
reason 10 believe that even those who are
doubtful Of resumption AS now carried out, will
interpose no difficulty, no opposition, but still
will wish it Godspeed, if any element Of
success exist within it, The Herald is of
opinion that the country has two assumptions
to face--the resumption that faces all coun-
tries that have procrastinated their oblga-
tons, and the resumption of the silver
dollar The latter, it expects, will be met by
the expressed intention of the banks TO meet
silver deposits with silver. It is clear that
resumption, as it shows itself to.day, and re-
sumption as contemplated by those who
passed the resumption act, are two very
different problems, and so congress will con-
slider them. The country will follow with
intense interest the course congress may
take on this important matter.
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Senatorial, MISS.
A Methodist Minister'S Voice Raised
Against the Celebration OF shrOVe-
Tuesday by a Mardi-Gr
Festival.

Senatorial, December 2-Feeling deep
interest in the future Of Memphis; occupy
ing a position that enables me to reflect the
popular feeling of the country people, and
especially the merchants of adjacent towns
and villages, desire to call your attention
as public journalist to few facts, which,
IN my judgment, are intimately connected
with the veal of our city. That the press is
a powerful agency for good or evil, that it
molds public sentiment, that it has rendered
the four hundred and siXty-seVen years in
which it has operated the Verltable golden
age of the worlds intellectually, and that it
can put a check on the dark cloud now
gathering, and destined ere long to hang
like financial death-pall over our smitten
people, | verify believe. l hope, dear sirs,
that you are sensible of the weighty obliga-
tons that rest upon you as the leading
Journalists and guardians of our city. HIther-
to you have been vigilant to watch and firm
In calling attention to everything that would
promote the material prosperity of Memphis,
and although others may differ with you in
political affairs, all, without an exception,
will agree that your able journal has ever
been welded in behalf Of the pro-
gress of the city. And now to the
point: 1t is currently reported in this
village that preparations are being made to
get up another Mardl- Gras in Memphis-tbat
1t will come off some time in February-that
etc. In the name of humanity; in the
name of hundreds CT broken-hearted widows
and weeping orphans that mourn along our
streets; in the name of twelve thousand
newly made graves IN our beautiful Elm
wood; in the name of the open hand of
charity, that lavished upon us money
and love and sympathy In that
dark day, wien every star had
been obliterated. and death confronted, Ike
a steel clad warrior, our terror stricken peo-
pie; oh, sir, in the name of the heroic and
brave dead, who sacrificed their lives to save
others, beg you put an arrest upon this
thing. Do not let them get up another
Mardi-Gras. What will our northern breth-
rem thinkp What will the wide world, who
gave money by the hundred thousand dol
lars, think of us if now we go forward and
expend fifty or seventy-five thousand dollars
On Mardi Gras? Take my word for it, if you
90 forward and get up that entertainment,
and the yellow-fever should visit Memphis
again, you Will Dot find the response of the |
past. And / think it safe to say, that if the |
Mardl- Gras Is consummated,
our merchants here and elsewhere will direct |
heir trade into another channel. Colonel |
jallhway, am not puritanical In. my views |
IT religion. never did believe that christian |
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SCANDAL
In high Life-A Prominent Lawyer
Suing Governor KOrtright, of
New York, for the SedHc-
ti0n Of his Wife.
Special to the Chicago TrIbune.l

Special TO the Chicago Trlbune.l
PHILADELPHIA, November %. Social
and political circles have been all agog over
a suit just entered in the United States dis
trIct court. OF this city, by young lawyer,
Frank I. Brightly, son of Frederick G..
Brightly, editor Of PurdOn's Digest and one
of the ablest lawyers OF the city bar. He
married, some time ago, daughter of VIM,
B. Mann, parliamentary of the court of COM
mon pleas, and ex district attorney, and has
lived with his father-in-law, and occupied an
Office with him. The latter is one of the
most prominent politicians in the city, and
lives IN an elegant mansion on Girard ave-
nue.. A few weeks ago young Brightly left
the house of his father in-law, and few
days ago a suit was entered in the United
States district court by his father and
Pierce Archer as attorneys-a plea of tres
pass ii ct armis-in which Brightly sues to
recover FIVE hundred thousand dollars from
Governor fortnight, of New York city, for
the seduction of his wife and enticing her
away from home. The bill charges that, on
the first of March last, and between that time
and July LIST, In this city, the said defendant,
with force and arms assaulted and ill-treat-
ed Mary Caroline Howard, then, and still
being, the wife Of said plaintiff, and then
and there carnally debauched and knew her. ~
A repetition of the offense is charged at New
port on the seventeenth of July, and between
the sixth and twenty first of the same month.
The charge is then made general that the
assault was repeated at sundry and divers
times and places, until the commencement
of the suit, and, lastly, that he ''unlawfuIly
and upjustly kissed her, the said wife of the
said plaintiff. and undermined and destroyed
the love which heretofore she had enter
tanned for the said plaintiff, and then and there
unlawfully and unjustly persuaded, procured,
seduced and entiCed the said wife of the SAID
plaintiff, to leave him. the said plaintiff, and
to 1--we apart from him, to-wit at the county
aforesaid, on September 8, 1873, and since. -
Every effort has been made to keep the mat
ter quiet, and this is the first publication of
1t. No answer has yet been filed.
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THE srIsAIssIPPI JETrIEs

The jetties have had the appreciation of
the APPEAL, and we rejoice to see how ves-
sells of the first-cass are delivering their car
goes at New Orleans in consequence of the
success of the jetties. New Orleans has not
been generous toward Memphis, but we can
understand the petty feeling which actuates
1t, and pass that feeling over. We can 10
more. We can rejoice at the success of The
1ettes. We can be glad that vessels of Grst
Importance can deliver their cargoes at New
orleans. We are aware that city looks upon
all this as mere additions to its own grandeur,
out that does not prevent US seeing that yes
sels Will come up the jetties having other
ports in prospect. We are confdens that
Memphis will in this way become a port of
entry and delivery. Suppose the owners of
vessel in Europe become aware that Mem
phis needs a commodity they can supply,
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people ought to go through the world to the
tune of dead march IN the soul, or ''Hark
from the tomb the dOlefHl sound" A chris
tan people ought to be a happy people.
Every star and flower, and good-the aroma
Of earth and heaven-belopg to the christian.
WHO is this black angel that some people
call religion wings black, feet black, feati
ers black. Our religion is a bright angel
Taking her seat in the experience of the soul,
she pulls chord that sets every bell in
heaven Ginning 1t was never the
purpose of God that his children
should ind Ilge gloomy and melancholy
straight-jackets and grunt themselves into
heaven-never. Rejoice evermore. Be dill
gent in business, fervent IN spirit, serving
God, are divine utterances which we would
DO well to heed. God made us to be happy,
and He has given us a beautiful world in
that we may be happy. l believe 1t is right
for christian men and women to spend their
money for pleasure; but while there is such
sweet music in the woods, such grand an
theuIs in the church, why listen to the hiss
iDgs of the serpent of hell? Why turn your
back from the mountain side, all abloom
with beautiful flowers, and rush out with
blistered feet upon the hot side of fire.
belching Vesuvius or Catopoxi? This is not
the time, nor is Memphis the place, for the
exhibition of foolishness. | hope, therefore,
my dear friend, that you will plant your
selves, like wall of brass, against it. Respect
fully, j. W. KNOTT.
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EVENTUALITIER.

We are Americans, living under a repub
lican government. We can see many defects
and deficiencies in other governments. When
we have done we can rejoice and thank God
that our government is American. Europe
is in danger of communism. Communism is
nothing but the competitive system arrived
at point. In Germany, among the aris-
tocrats, there is terrible fear of communism.
In fear men show their souls, show the prin-
ciples that animate them, and the springs
that move them. Communism has terrified
the German court; what Is the result? Does
1t amicably discuss communism, ask its origin,
dive deep it into its causes? Plumb it
square it-found it-penetrate it-compre-
bend it2 No; the shallow politicians of
Europe can only condemn it. Condemn it
Amy superficial observer could do that, and
that is all that 1.-THE boasted protundity of
Germany can do. Here is the result of the
shallow wisdom of Bismarck and his col
leagues. One hundred and two societies,
twenty-eight newspapers and Lightweight
books and pamphlets have been prohibited
since the PRONUNCIATION of the anti
socialist law. In northern Germany there
Is uut Out JOuEudl OF sOCldlisI pIOCtlfA-
ties left, in central and southern Germany
there still remain eleven. All these have
changed their names since the new law and
try to conceal their bias as much as possible.
When the shallow brains attained the mag
nihcent result recorded in the lines we have
quoted what was the outcome? Nothing.
Ideas were expressed. They may bave been
as empty as the morning mist, and as sense
less as the mutterings of the child just learn
ing speech. But what if they who oppose
the socialistic ideas cannot meet them, IF
they are Imbeciles though kings or the
ministers Of kings. They condemn them.
They put them down by the power Of the
soldlery. They say you shall not print this;
you shall not say the other. Fools-men
think in spite of authority. Men influence
men in opposition to prohibition. Com
munism we know in this country to be folly,
but if the folly of communism meet with 10
other opposition than the opposition of mere
power, unsupported by the authority of in
tellect and sound sense, then woe to the gov
eminent threatened by communism.
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Suicide Out west-PraIrre Fire.

DEADwooD, ID. T., December 4.-AnotheI
case of suicide by morphine occurred here
last night. The victim was Mrs. Ella Wal
lace. Mental suffering was assigned as the
cause for the deed.
An extensive and destructive prairie fire
occurred below Crook City, and swept in an
easterly direction, burning up hay which had
been cut and stacked for the military post at
Bear Butte. The military quarters narrowly
escaped destruction. Many of the ranches
were burned to the ground. Sturgis City,
which lies in the path of the flames, was
saved by a slight rainfall, which stopped the
progress of the FIRE.
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The Afghan War.

LONDON, December A Lapore dispatch
says General Roberts, finding the enemy con-
centrated in sufficient strength to Justify the
hope of inAicting a crushing defeat on the
ameer's forces, had delayed the attack until
the arrival of all his supplies and transports
so as to be able to follow up any advantage
gained. A dispatch from the viceroy of India
also states that General Roberts is halted to
allow the troops to rest and his supplies to
come forward The Afghans are at the top
of Peiwar pass, and are known to have two
batteries of horse artillery.
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4 Problem Long Since Solved.

How to re nedy those prolific causes of disease an
impoverished circulation and an impaired digestion
was i problem the solution of which had often
baffied medical skill, but which solved over a
quarter Of century ago by The Introduction of Hos
letters Stomach Bltters to public and professional
notice. Since that time which may we'll be said to
have initiated new epoch in the history of medI-
cine the remedy and preventive referred TO has OBJ
tanned footh0ld In the confidence of the American
people that each succeeding has only served to
strengthen. 1t is recognized throughout the Union
as tonic Of the first order, remedy for and sure
means OF preventing fever and ague and disorders
OF the stomach ana bowels; as a reliable means of
reforming diS0fdeIed state of the liver, and OF
counteracting tendency to rheumatism, govt, uIf-
nary and uterine d SOrtlarS.
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---------S-
The Recent Kentucky Outrage.

CTNCTNNATI, December 4.-Advices from
Breathett county, Kentucky, indicate that
quiet has been again restored. Notwithstand-
ing the desperate efforts on the part of the
friends of Jason Little. the murderer, to re-
lease HIM, Sheriff Higgins succeeded in
delivering him to the jail in Madison county,
where he was ordered for sate-keeping by
Judge Randall. Governor M'Creary has is
sued instructions for special term of court in
Jackson as soon as practicable, to indIct and
punish all parties who participated in the
late disturbance. He has also ordered the
M'Creary Guards to march to the aid of
the court if necessary.
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The above ordinance passed, as amended, OF
second and hnal reading by the General Council
JOHN r. FLIPPIN Mayor.
Attest: W.. A. MCLoY, Acting City Register,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-19
ADJUSTMENTS.
A GLORIOUS ENDING.

The last OF the series OF the entertainment OF
tbe Continental Guards, assisted. we are
,,lsaaed to repeat II. by the ladies and gentle
men of the Lee Monumental Association ana
many members Of the Washington Artillery,
occurred last evening at the Opera House.
The house was the largest that has attended the
entertainments with the exception OF that OF
Thursday evening, and our youthful irlend
Kittredge was tasked to his utmost in his
arduous duties in tho box office. Tho re-
suit pecuniarly, we apprehend. Will
however be equal to that Of Thursdays
entertainment for the price OF adn nf 20
n naa of for reserved seas The fairy play Of
"Cinderella" by the children. tralnen by TITS. .;
X. Bell was rendered IN m ,be 20, a nn'
nagion' We had previously almost exhausted
our fund of praise in behal 4 Of oil concerned 10
the successful endeavof " ~ Wharf Lee mi
e can md word or two to say to all that they
have now won aurels that wlll never wither H.
If we have heretofore omitted TO refer 70 me
INV I'VE year old daug liter OF DR.. Berthslnt,
who lead in the scarf dance. we certainl did
not do so Intentionally and we are o. loss 70
committed, for the extraordinary grace ana st,
smartness of Miss Berthelot was one OF the
prominent features OF the enter'aIamh me bave
been reouested to compliment Mrs. stewart,
the teacher of the queen OF the cachncha., MISS us,
scarf dance for the excellent part she took In
the display.
ron THE INSANE.
The next sociable entertainment to take lace
will occur nj the Varieties Theatre on Iuesd4y
evening, and will be for a most worthy OBJECT
The relief Of the inmates OF the City insane
Asylum The entertainment Will comprise
Ave grand tabeaux, il, which one M HUNDRED ana
twenty-five children will appear. The tablea'lx
which will be interspersed with songs by dim-
inutlve ladies' and gentlemen. will be: FlTst.
mixture of national eharacters: second. sun
rise; third. Moonlight" fourh3t Royal Per ,n
alan Festiyities." and Nth, Winter; tbe
whole to conclude with grand soi re- dan
sante. We will refer to this affair. which prom
ises to be novel and splendid. Mt some uthel
dav Meanwhile We urge our readers 10 re-
member that those for whose benefit this enter
tainment is given are deserving OF all thei
sympathy and assistance.
LOUISIANA FIELD ARTILLERY PICNIC.
The picnic Of this splendid command, her
aided for some time past. will come on on sun
day June q mt the Fair Grounds. There WI
be sports In the field OF various kinds. q walk
ing match n running match. q mule race.
game OF raauette. a glass ball match, an -, no
ssnt d'armes. open to everybody; ana otne
matches for which handsome prizes Will o.
given. The admission price Will be only htl