Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-12

and fifty feet long, twenty feet beam, light
]raupht and fast, and have eommo1iouE
mail rooms furnished with every safeguard
against fire. They will also be provided with
elegant passenger accommodations, and will
carry no heavy freights nor any explosive
There are between two and three
hundred postofh -es on the route, and the
round trip of two thousand five hundred
miles is tc be made IN a maximum time OF
three hundred and thirteen hours. There are |
now several mail contracts between here and
New Orleans, but when these steamers com
mence running they will be wiped out, and |
the whole service done under this contract |
Price proposes a tn weekly service Tor one |
hundred and forty-eight thousand hve mum
bred dollars land upon this Condltlonal
contract was entered intol, and for four nun
bred and fifty thousand dollars annually he
proposes to make 1t daily line-tha5 is, de-
liver daily mail at every postothce between
st. Louis and New Orleans. But great deal
of opposition has been made manifest within
the past few days. Petitions are being
ralned into the postoffice department. Oppo-
sition also comes from Memphis aud the
larger cities along the route, and from every
body interested in the present arrangement,
which is generally believed to be as convent
ent for all concerned as the trl-weekly fast-
mail proposed By Captain Price. The object
of Price no doubt, is to commence with
tri-weekly, according to contract, and gradu-
ally work up to daily, getting Tor that tour
hundred and fifty thousand dollars per an
mum. Al present the matter rests as mere
described. ..--..s go. 4-..-r
.1-s-4ree,aessre7:-- - Tt Is Supposed by
many tobacco planters that they are allowed,
under the late act of congress, to sell one
| hundred pounds of tobacco to consumers, or
| to their employees, without any tax This Is
| a mistake, as it would be violation of the
| revenue law. A bill did pass the lower
1 ~, ahsarTF
| three years since, but was defeated IN the
| senate, and an effort to get such bill at the
| last session through congress failed also. A
| farmer can take leaf-tobacco from tenant,
however, as rental for land, as part OF the
CROP"
Are the George Bonds UneOnstitu-
The following is furnished for publication
by the comptroller of the currency: The
| comptroller of the currency has received from
the bank examiner in Georgia, a specimen Of
the new four per cent bonds recently issued
by that State. They are IN SIZE and color
| similar to greenbacks, and 10 other respects
they are a bond with interest, payable SIX
years after date with six annual coupons
| amounting to twenty cents, each upon the
right end of the note. The comptroller, Ia
his report for 1872 and 1873, called the at
tentlon of congress to the issue Of certificates
of the denomination of FIVE dollars by the
payment of taxes and all dues to the State.
The question is likely to arise whether these
bonds are bills of credit. The comptroller, II
his report for 1872, SAID the constitution o.
the United States provides that 70 Stati
shall emit bills of credit, and 1t has beer
held by the supreme court OF the United
States in famous case (Briscoe as. Bank o
Kentucky, that note of circulation ''lssued
by State involving the faith Of the State
and designated to circulate as money on the
credit of the State in the ordinary course o
business" is bill of credit Other decisions
of the supreme court hold ''that certificate
issued by State in sums not exceeding ter
dollars or less than fifty cents receivable il
payment of taxes. the faith and credit Of th'
State beng pledged for their redemptlo1, AK
bills of credit within the prohibition of the
constitution.
The Negro Exodus.
Special to the New York Tribune: Mr.
G. H. Tandy, of st. Louis, arrived IN Wash
Iugten to-day, bringing a memorial to con
gress on the subject of The exodus of colo,et
, people from the south. The following ar
the most important portions of the paper
1.-The undersigned, your memorlailstS, re
spectfully represent that within the last tw
weeks there have come by steamboats, up tn
, Mississippi river, chiefly from the States @
louisiana and Mississippi, and landed at st
Louis, Missouri, great number OF eolere'
{ citizens of the United States, not less tina
women, old ana Young, and vita them eur ma
of their children. THIS multitude are cage
to proceed to Kansas and, without excep
ton, so far as we have learned, refuse a
overtures or inducements to return south
even If their passage back is paid fer them
The condition OF the great majority is that @
absolute poverty. They are clothed IN tilii
and ragged garments for the most part, an,
while here have been supported to some ex
tent by public, but mostly by private, char
! ity. The older ones are the former slaves Q
the south, all now entitled TO lif
: and liberty. The weather, iron
the frst advent of these people in this north
ern city, has been unusually cold, ATTENDED
with ice and snow, so that their suffering
: have been greatly increased. and if there wa
l in their hearts a single kud rem smbrance o
their southern sunny homes they would Civ,
it expression. We have taken Cesasion t
examine into the causes they themselves as
sign for their extraordinary and Unexpecte,
, transit, and beg leave to submit herewith tia
, written statements of a number of individ
! uals Of the refugees, which were taken with
, |, out any effort to have one thing said nor
tkftn ANOTHER, and to express the sense OF tn
sible. The stony IS a661nf about AS nearly IS pos
I Instance great privation and want from *
cessive rent exacted for land, connected wit
; murder of colored neighboTs, and threats c
! personal violence to themselves. The tone 6
> each statement Is that of suffering and fer
TOR. Election days and Christmas by I'll
! concurrent testimony seem to have been ap
! propriated to killing the smart men, wall
l robbery and personal violence, in one forr
and another, seem to have run the yea
round"
Here follow abstracts of a number Of affida
I Wits, giving the circumstances of murder
committed in Louisiana and Mississippi, som
! of which have heretofore been reported in tn
north, but many OF which have never befor
| been made public. The memorial continues
I'VE submit that a great migration of ne
groes from the south is in itself fact TIA
overbears all contradiction, aud proves con
cluslvelY that great causes must exist IN Tia
south to account for it. Here they are il
3 multitades-not men alone. but women an,
children, old, middle-aged and young, witt
common consent leaving their old homes in
natural climate and facing storms and u
! known dangers to get t. northern Kansas
Why? Among them all there is little said 0
hope In the future; it is all of fear in the past
They are not drawn by the attractions o
Z Kansas; they are driven by the terrors Q
: Mississippi and Louisiana. Whatever be
, comes of them, they are unanimous in thei
unalterable determination not to return
7 There are others coming. Those who hav
} come and gone on to Kansas must suffer ever
unto to death we fear-at all events, NOR
than any body of people entitled TO lbert
and law, the possession of property, the RICH
} to vote and the pursuit Of happiness, shout,
be compelled to suffer under free govern
} ment from terror, inspired by robbery
threats, assaults and murder
The memorial closes as follows:
} I'VE protest against the direful necessities
lmpelllng the exodus and against the viola
ton OF common right, natural and cOUstltu
tional, proven to be of most frequent occur
ence in places named; and we ask such &C
, ton at the hands of our representatives anC
our government as shall investigate o Ia,
: full extent the causes leading to this unnatu
raj state OF affairs, and protect the peopl,
liberty and life, but enforce law and rider.
This memorial is signed by Elk CongressmeI
L. ). Metcalfe, Nathan Cole and Finkelburg
tx Senator John B. Henderson. Surveyor Q
Customs Gustavus st. Gem, United State
District Attorney Bliss, Ex-Governor Thoma
G. Fletcher, x-Dlstrict-Attorneys John w