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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05

The exc Has OF the negro from the south Is
assuming large proportions under the stimulus OF
Republican agencies. The washington correspond
ent OF the New York Times says: "a national con-
ventlon OF the friends OF the freedmen is contem-
plated and several prominent men are here to con-
suit with others from the various States In regard II
IT, Some OF the wealthiest citizens Of the country
are interested In the movement They consider
II as one not Of party politics, but OF re-
iigion and humanity, and large
amount of money IS being raised TO make
the proposed convention a success. IL is expected
that the convention will be held in Philadelphia
after the national Coored convention has been held,
and wall-lnCormed white and coOred men from every
state IN the south will be present TO represent the
real condition OF affairs In that section. national
aid committee will be formed for the purpose OF
helping such oolored men as choose to emigrate
from the south and this committee 1t Is proposed
10 place none but leading and wealthy men from the
different sections OF the country. Prominent colored
men from Mississippi, Louisiana Alabama and South
Carolina, who are now here, favor the proposed con
yention. and will attend it. large land
owner and active farmer OF Kansas
now IN washington. says that in his section farm
ers would be glad TO employ colored laborers, and
would sell them land and give them ample oppor-
iunltY TO pay for &c In work prominent Federal
rcer now residing in the south says thai the blacks
have actually resolved 10 20 out into the western
wilderness and take their chances OF living there
rather than remain IN the SOUTH where they are DE
prlyed or all political rights and subjected TO the
most cruel prosecutions" All Of which goes to prove
Chat the scheme Is political one, cOncocted In cold
blood and that IL Is 70 assume the proportions thus
proposed In order 10 kee. the negro Uppermost IL
politics until alter the Presidential election Of 1880
srhe whole movement ~ "A swiudle and a cheat
tIIsed upon a lie.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05
THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH,
Before AdjOurning Yesterday, Adopts
Several Important and Timely
ResOiutsOns and Makes SEINE
Very Sensible sSugges-
lions.
Special to tie Appeal. ]

Special to tie Appeal
NASHVILLE, April An the board of
health the president was authorized to ap-
point standing committee on the relation
of alcoholic spirits as a beverage to disease
and crime.
The following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That upon the board having reliable
information of the Introduction into any pant
of the county of epidemic disease, especially yell
lowfeyer and cholera, that 1t is the judgment and
Intention of this board 10 enfor 0 the utmost Of
their ability stlct quarantine OF all the avenues of
travel and c0mmerce against the int oductOn into
the State of these most Justly dsea led diseases.
An address to the people appeals to every
citizen, towL and village to at once proceed
with the organization Of auxiliary boards OF
health, constituted of firm, prudent and wise
physicians, with one or more intelligent citi-
zans.
The following was adopted:
WHEREAS, It Is demonstrat-d that extremes OF
Temperature will destroy yelloW-fever; therefore,
TeSotUei, That railroad companies whose lines
into infe tt districts BE- advised and recommends
to constr dct gerators on the Steambox for the
production OF extreme heat ,old for the disInf6c
ton of ca sld their cal goes.
The boaul adjourned until the first of JULY
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05

MIR. EUGENE KELLY and Mr.. Peter
6eddes, speaking for the Tennessee bondholders,
say positively that the tty-cent proposition Will not
bs accepted Mr.. Kelly says that The bOndholders
are satisfied that they could sue the state. under
special provision made when the bonds we're issued,
and they also believe that tbs bonds were lien on
ths railroads OF Tennessee. Under these cireu'n-
sttnces" Mr. Kelly said, ''theT were likely to be firm
In their position. and reject the settlement no"
offered No provision has been made 10y the leglsle'
tura for the future security oil the STATE debt and hs
b,ndhoers could not trust 10 the credit OF the State
Louisiana had scaled her debt some lime ago, and
now a further reduction was being agitated The
tennessee bondhoIders wished the coupons on the
new bonds receivable for taxes if The Legislature
mad made that part Of the new adjustment bill anC
had Increased the tax assessment, there wonld nave
been some security for tue bondloiders In is'
future"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05

THE Atlanta Constitution asserts that Ii
the schemes Of colonization of the negro now being
Matched work properly, as planned another hegira
VIII shortly begin from Alabama aud lower Tennes-
see to Ohio and Indiana. The Incentives 10 thls
movement VIII be strong and very seductive to the
blacks. Cincinnati 10 Ohio, and Indianapolis the
home OF Morton, IN Indiana, viii be the points OF
destination and It IS expected that the railroads VIII
make rates to put II in the power OF thousands togo
10 those places. What They will do when they get
there Is an Indifferent question TO the organizers OF
the exodus stu holder, yet embryo poit on of the
scheme IS to declmats the negro population OF the
Caro!Inas 10y shipping cIrgOes OF them TO New Yofb
and Boston on the pretense Of nigh wages as dock
hands, drivers and porleis.
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CABLE NEWS.
Serious Depreciation of silver in the
British Market-Famine In Egypt
Anglo Turkish Negotiations
CetewayO Wants to Talk
About Pasee Again.

CAIRO, April 4-The report of the Eng
lishman sent by Rivers Wilson to inquire
into the famine in upper Egypt, shows by
statistics that ten thousand persons died by
starvation alone in Girghe, kena and Esna.
The famine, which was really money fam
mated, but has left disastrous consequences.
Similar ta4ation another year, or another
partial failure in the Nile, will cause fam
inc worse than the first.
The Cattle Trade.
LONDON, April 4.-The Gazette contains
the order of the privy council, taking effect
to day and continuing in force for two
months, which says cattle brought from the
United States to London may be transhlpped
in the Vlctorit docks to another vessel for
conveyance to the foreign cattle market at
Depford, and the cattle so transferred shall
continue to be deemed foreign cattle. The
slaughter of cattle on the quay will, there
fore, net be necessary.
Egyptian News.
LONDON, April 4.-The Egyptian otAcer
sent 10 break up the slave depots at Bahr FL
Gazal- hordofan, reports AN engagement with
Suehman, the chief slave-trader and owner
OF twenty-five slave depots, in which women
alone and to the number of ten thousand
were waiting importation into E. ypt. The
Egyptian forces numbered three thousand
men, partly armed with improved rifles, anG
we've intrenched. Sueliman, with clever
thousand Arabs, made several assaults, bu
we're completely defeated aud fed in dis
order, leaving one thousand and seventy
eight dead. The Egyptians lost twenty men
CetewayO Asks q Resumption OF NexO
| tiattOns for Peace.
LONDON, April "A special supplement
] to the London Gazette has been issued, con
| tanning a dispatch from Lord Chelmsford in
closing report dated March 1st, from th,
border agent at Umvate, to the effect tina
messengers from King Cetewayo have arrived
! there. Cetewayo asks Missionary Bishop t.
explain that he did not desire war, and wa
sending persons whose surrender had BEEF
| demanded by She British to oe aeiiYered t
the general at Rorke's drift, when his mes
sengers and pickets were fred upon, and
battle unpremeditatedly occurred. The Zul
general who permitted the battle to occur
now in disgrace. Cetewayo now asks re
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05

he said, had taken this simply as pretext,
and as preliminary to the more important
repeal of the election laws. These were the
statutes at which they were aiming.
From the above, which gives only the sub
stance of what the President said / the
course of the conversation, it may be seen
that he is in the
FULLEST ACCORD WITH THE UNITED REPUB-
LICAN PARTY
in the present crisis, and if that party stands
up, as it will, resisting these obnoxious meas.
ures as long as resistance is possible, they
may then let them 90 to the President, in
the firm conviction that ne cannot be per-
suaded or frightened into any course that is
not in accord with his views of his official
duty. Where these ideas of his duty will
lead him, no one can doubt from bis CONVEX.
sation
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05

THE Gainesville Tobacco Leaf announces
Judge Ciapp us It's candidate fer governor In 1850
ii the following wOrts. which every one who does
ot want to rob the creditors OF the State will in
.srse: ''The heroic and gallant light which Senator
C.ipp, OF Memphis has made In behalf OF the
ste Of Tennessee Is unparalleled In the history oil
or state. he has proven himself TO be a man every
inca. The circumstances by which he was
surrounded weo peculiarly trying, and we'll
calculated 10 discourage less dauntless
man. he found himself in u Legislature
where demagOguery was the passion OF the hour,
where the honor and good name Of the stats were
rideuied as doing right. lie found himself In 6E
almost hopeless minority, and yet, when the worst
"a me 70 the worst, he proved himself equal TO the
occasion and worthy OF the leadership Ia any State.
one BY one good friends who we're tmid and afraid
a. speak out came @ his rescue and to his aid lie
fought good fight, and We now nominate him as a
,uitabIe man for the next governor OF Tennessee
ono that can be relied on
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every year.

COLONEL. JOHN w. G WATSON, for many
years Editor of the Holly Springs South, has taken
hts leave OF that paper in the following few words to
his former .'many readers" ION retiring from the
south. which have desired to make both respect
able and useful duIiug my past connection with IT,
congratulate myself and the public that leave IL
IN amply competent ana worthy hands, and in te-
ing able to assure my friends that the paper will con
tinue none the less to be the friend of law and or
der true to principle and the bsst Interests of soc
ety. can but commend the present proprietor to
the good offices Of all my friends"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05

TIE New York Journal Of Commerce, one
OF the oldest and staunchest Democratic papers In
the STATE says OF cur proposed compromise with the
bondholce-s that it rs a shlfty compromise, which
does no credit TO Tennessee. she ought to pay her
debts IN full But this halfway work IS better than
fiat Republication. Unless the citizens of TennesSI
are Willing 10 ses their State hrsdeemably lost TO
fortune ana fame. they VIII suspend seltgTatula-
lions until they have ratified the scheme and done
something for the bOudhOlders."
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05

We azree with the Nashville american,
that ths action Of the state board OF health In In
wiling the cooperation Of neighboring boards OF the
Mississippi valley ard conference to devise meas
ures for protection was timely The national board
Is 100 widely extended and has not authority tolde-
Viss measures which are demanded for the protec-
ton Of states which within the yellowfeyer belt
such cooperation Of state boards is In every WAY
desirable, even though no apprehension should nov
l. 49,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05

TIE Washington correspondent OF the
Baltimore sun, teiegraphing on the first Instant
states that Senators Thurman and Gordon MADE
their appearance in The senate chamber on that day
General Gordon was sworn in for his ne" term OF
SIX years. Both he and Judge Thurman have been
mite prosrated by their recent Illness, but they ex
pect now to recuperae rapidly. There Is some busl-
ness Of importance awaiting the consideration oil
the committee on the judiciary, and, as soon as he
feels equal to the task. Judge Thurman will call the
committee together. The present judiciary commit
lee Is undoubtedly one OF the ablest, II not the
blest judiciary committee that the senate has evei
had. AIr. Bayard takes place on lt forthe hrs'
time since lie came to the senate.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05

The Nashville american says Of Senator
Isham g. Harris's bin providing for treaty with
Mexico, that such treaty, wisely made means de
yelopmeat Of Mexico, rapid Increase OF population
and continually growing trade Tor the Unlteo
states Throw open the doors TO Mexico. Let heI
sell here what she VIII, whether sugar, cCfee, one
thing or another; whether we make il or grow IL
and in twenty years Mexico viii be live, progressive
country. rapidly growing In population, wealth ana
enlightenment while our trade will double itself with
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-05
WIN. M. Narts Secretary of state. ELLA"
YeIIow-Fever at Sea.

BosT0N, April 4.-The United States
steamer Plymouth, which sailed from tn 5
port March 18th for cruise to the West In
dies, has returned, yalow-fever having broken
out when three hundred miles southeast of
Bermuda The boatswain died of the disease.
The ship came from the West Indies last
autumn with yellow-fever on board, and it
was thought that fumigatlon and the irosts
of the winter here had DESTROYED all germs
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Nathan,s ShOotess.

New YORK, April Mira. Barrett, alias
Birdie Bell, a woman well known in some
circles OF this city, was the person who shot
Washington Nathan. Mrs. Marion Ward,
wife OF the actor and now in California, can
only account for her name being associated
with the shooting from the circumstance
that she knew Nathan some yeala ago, No
srrystS.
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New YORK TRIBUNE OFFICE,
NEW YORK, December 80, 1878.

MY DEAR dR. EvARTs-I must tender to you, and
beg you also to express to the President. my best
thanks for the unexpected offer of the mission to
the German empire. Two considerations render
this high hoDr peculiarly grateful. You call me 10
post last hell by near friend, and you do 1t solely
on the ateriig estimate placed by yourself and the
President upon my public service have always
thought the citizen ought to attempt any task TO
which his government may summons him, but work
In which am now engrossed, which Is also a pub
lie duty seems to give greater opportunities for me-
at least for serving the country and advancing those
views OF public policy which we agree in thinking
best for It's prosperity than any that could be afford
ed In the new field you propose Nothing, therefore,
but sense Of duty induces me to ask you to allow
me to decline the brilliant position you Offer am,
my dear MI. Evarts, faithfully yours,
WHITELAW REID
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Fatally shotln a Bad Cause,

LOUISVILLE, April A special dispatch
from Paris, Kentucky, to the Courier Jour-
nal says that at Millersburg, Bourbon
county, to day, Milton Washington, colored,
in attempting to release his brother from the
custody of the constable was fatally shot,
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HAYES

VIII not Back DOwn-His Mind Is Made
up that it is Good Thing to En-
plOy Troops at the Polls,
and, as the New York
"Tribune" Says,
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BAD FIRE.
WhCIesaEe Dry Goods and Wholesale
Clothing stores Destroyed by
Fire ia st LOuIs-One Fire
man Killed and Sew.
erAI Injured.

ST. LOUIS. April A FIRE broke out at
half-past n1u9 O'Clock in the building, Nos.
jO4 and 5C6 on North Fifth street, occupied
by $. NJ Hamilton * Co, wholesale dry
goods, on the groucd door, and Mack x Co.,
wholes sale clot7iers, 10 the upper floor. The
building, an ell of which extends, round to
ST. Charles street, is a complete wreck and
the stock totally destroyed. The two upper
stories of Nos. SEQ and SOP, on the corner of
st. Charles aad Fifth streets, lately occupied
by Appleton, Noyes & Maude, was also
burned, The fire then spread to the rear of
Altheimer IL Whites wholesale hat aud cap
house, No. AIS Washington avenue, and the
adjoining clothing store, Meyers Bros, on
West, aud two small cigar and Hquour stores
on East, which are now burning. The flames
also spread to the rear of the veraudah of
the row fronting on Fourth street, between
St. Charles and Washington avenue, and the
prospect is that a goodly part OF it VIII be
destroyed. On the roof Of the rear part of
this building several fremen were standing
when the rear wall of the Fifth street stores
fell, killing one, named Nelson, mOrtally
wouuding another, named Billy Retz, and
badly Ipjuring two or three others.
LATER.
The FIRE now (midnlght) is under control,
| and has not extended beyond the block in
which it started. Altheimer & Whites store
is Quilted, and Meyers Bros, adjoining, is a
good deal DAMAGED by water. The Fourth
! street storys in Verandah Row are oil injured
mere or less by water, particularly Miller,
l Grant * Co., lace4 and fancy dry goods, and
| H. Pro5asco, fancy candies; the American
express company's Office also received a
! thorough wetting. The losses cannot even
be appropriated tonight. but Mack & Co.,
Hamilton & Co, aud Altheimer & White,
carried large stocks, and their losses will be
heavy, as they are nearly or quite total
Dodd, Brown & Co. had about seventy thou.
sand dollars worth of goods in cases stored in
Hamilton & Co house, all of which is prob
ably destroyed. The insurance cannot be
| given tonight, or even estimates. The fire
started in one of the upper floors of Mack
Co. S, and burned so rapidly that nearly the
whole building was in flames before the fire
| UjnPS arrival
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urArnRR ENnICATIONs.

WAR DEPARTMENT.. OFFICE Gu. sic. OFFICER.
WAsHINGTON. April ;, am.
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley
soayp,er, clear or partly cloudy 'oeather,
northicesterly ,cinds, becoming rG'iable, or
shifting to southeaster7y, Jolloiced By sta
tionary o., failing barometer.
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The most assiduous parental attention will
frequently fail to prevent coughs, colds,
Group, etc. Dr. Bulls cough syrup is a most
needed.
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wEArHER OBSERVATIONS.
WAR DEPT. SlGNAT SERvtCR. u. s. ARMY,
ElsrnAN Ann 4. 1872. l0OS pm. !

SPEAKER RANDALL will announce his com
mittees next week.
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a MATTER % INVITE IMeORrANCE.

the troops have been very rarely, if ever,
used to preserve the peace at elections, and it
will be impossible to use them for that pur-
pose hereafter. There will be no soldiers
available. There has been a regiment in
Georgia, but it has been sent to Montana, and
the only troops ieft in the States, except a
feW artillerymen stationed at the forts, will
be on the Texas frontier. But the Democrats,
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MARRIED.

RUSSKLL-TATE-Apri 3, 1879. at Senatobia.
Miss, By Rev. George Moore, Mr. E. P. RUSSELL and
Miss M K TATE
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An Enthusiastic Friend of Sanford's
Radical Cure.


MARINE INSURANCE AGENCY, !
225 Pine Street, St Louis. Mo-, Feb :, 1871
A. A MILLER, Washington Az, City. Dear Mellier
Ihave for years been troubled with Catarrh
for the past years have suffered seriously with
Noticing your advertisement of SANFoRD's REMEDY
GRAPHICAL CCBR) decided TO try it, Ihave used only
two bottles and suit feel much relieved that
presume personal relations and write this TO
you and ask you axe get moro
prominently before the public, that others have
such relief as have have recommended it TO quite
Number OF my friends, all of whom have expressed
TO their high estimate of its value and good effects
with them.
really think st particularly adapted to wants of St
Louis people, and they all ought to know Of it, and
those who need should Try It, viii risk the assertion
that 1000 or walls tas sample) TO be given away Will
sell rs many bottles.
Try some plan. Letthe people have IL; they need it.
believe could sell 5000 hotties myself course you
could largely increase this number. Why try It?
Yours truly, WIN. BOWEN.
Sold by all Wholesale and Retail Druggists and Deal
ers in Medicine throughout the United States and Can
adas. WEEKS q POTTER. General a gents and Whole
Druggists. BoSton
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WASHINGTON, December %, 1873.

MY DEARSIR-The President has desired as far
1t In his power in making his choice of min
listers TO relTesent US ABROAD 10 attach more lmpOT
nent members Of the Republican party than to their
mere relatisns to any political personal interests
within the party, how prominent these latter
might be. am directed by the President to ask
your acceptance Of the German mission, made va
cant by the death OF MI. Bayard Taylor. 1t gives
me- personally, great pleasure to convey to you this
wish of the President, ana to express the hope that
you mag ni 1t In ord with your incinationS, and
to be not Inconsistent with other obligations, to
deItake thepublic service which the President asks
of you. an, my dear Mr.. Reid. yours, very truly,
WILLIAM NJ EVARTS