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Dickens as a Pedestrian.

care you walkcr?' inquired the Eng
fish friend who drove me to the station
from which | was to start for Gad's Hill,
on my first visit to Charles Dickens.
pretty fair" I replied, with that Amer
lean confidence in the ability to do any
thing which has made my countrym en-
famous. Gall right responded my
friend, with quizzical glance at the thin
soled CATERS affected by New Workers in
1865 glance which did not thorough
~ appreciate until forty -eight hours af-
terward, in my room at Cad Hill-place.
when I endeavored to coax those very
CATERS off from my swollen, burning and
painful feet. During that intervel had
met Charles Dickens, and we had taken
one Of his walks together. Professional
or amateur, there never was more enthu-
siastic pedestrian than Dickens. He loved
walking for its own sake; he practised it
for its beneficial effects upon his health
he utilized it as means of observation
he preferred it to any other means of To-
comotion; he found in it rest, recreation
and unlimited enjoyment. To ask you to
walk with him, in town or country, was
one of the highest compliments which he,
who paid SO few compliments. could offer.
Many are the happy hours, along London
streets and Rochester roads, that memory
now tenderly recalls; but these pleasures
do not obliterate the recollection of the
exquisite pedestrian pains that followed
my first walk with Dickens. There was
nothing, except my frieud's tentative
question at the station, to prepare me
for the sacrifice. A basket-carrlage was
waiting at Gad's- hill station to drive me
to the Dickens mansion in time for din
ner. Next day the host himself drove
me about Cebham park. It was not I'M
til the second morning, when we had be-
come better acquainted, that he proposed
that walk to Rochester, around Roches-
ter, through the marshes, to Gravescnd,
by Chalk church, that sent me back to
London fOotsore from unaccustomed ex-
ercise, but with head and heart full of
the genial and wise gossip of the great
novelist. "Not quite twenty miles and
back" said Dickens, as we reached Gad's-
hill gate, /" but good walking for five hours
and half, considering the country.
Considering, too, he might have added,
the stoppagcs for hearty laughter; the
episodes of fower-gatherlng and stair
climbing; the visits to roadside hostelries,
old churchyards and curious ruins; the
talks with tramps, with children and
inquisitive dogs, and the merry accom-
paniment of anecdote, Renaissance and
remark, that made each mile miracle
of delight to one who was, for the first
time, alone with the Dickens of his boy
hoods alteration and his youthful
dreams. Aquatic Mont1lv and Sporting
Gazette.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-03

personal appearance, admitted that he
rad at length met his match. But it is
the advantage Of contest on which bet
depends that there are plenty of people
interested and standing by TO see fair
play done. One Of Heidegger's support
ers remarked that the old woman owed
much OF her expression to her bonnet,
and he suggested that, to make the con.
test perfectly fair, Heidegger should put
ON the bonnet too. The master of the
revels assented, and SO did those who
backed the old woman's supporters.
Heidegger looked SO overwhelmingly ugly
that the bet could no longer be disputed.
The master of the revels triumphantly
maintained his position of being the ug-
Hest OF his majesty's subjects
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-03
HOPE.

HOPE.
lay in grief,
And Hope drew near to where tossed alone
Without relief
And paused moment when she heard that
moan;
Then raised her glowing eyes and met my
own.
Never word she said,
Yet still gazed and still was comforted.
Then, bending low with wondrous grace,
She laid her hand upon my eyes,
Her cool hand on my burning face,
And at her touch bright visions rise
Fresh woods and streams and unimagined
skies.
In softest tone
She sang the song that has no close,
That deathless song that no one knows
Save she alone:
The song that leaves no memory;
The song of endless victory
And future love;
And as listened to the voice above
felt as one returning from the dead;
Slowly rose and raised my dropping head.
-AN the Year Round.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-03

The manure Of cows and pigs resists
decomposition for longer time than that
of the sheep and rse-both the latter
being dryer than the former, and decom-
posing more readily in the soil.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-03
Notes for the Farmer.


some begonias and other tender plants,
and we are now ready to give our evi-
dence in support of the unknown Michi-
gan lady's theory. Upon examination
of the plants some time after sprinkling,
every louise was found white and dead
as a door-nail.' We used watering-pot.
while she recommends hand-broom,
We would advise our readers to try it,
It has been proven that by the plant
ing in drills a larger yield Of corn can be
produced than from hills. In place of
hills three feet apart each way, make
drills three and half feet apart, and
drop the seed every eighteen inches. In
the first case there are $40 hills, and in
the latter 8,400 to the acre. Two stalks
may be grown in each hill, or, if there
are three stalks, in the former case there
will be 1920 stalks and 16,8OO in the
latter; with one good ear to each stalk.
which is possible. there will be 145
bushels in the one case and 1863 in the
other to the acre. If this is possible. and
there is no doubt of it, why, then, should
it not be attemptedy
The american, Catltioator gives this sat
lsfactory experience with sweet corn as
stock feed During the past two seas ons
/ have had an acre or more to CUT I'm
when suitable for roasting ears, besides
what I have fed in its green state direct
TO the cows, and think it is the best
feed that | have ever used for feeding
dairy cows, or fattening animals. In
either case it seems a feed nearly per
feet. The ears furnish material for fat
tening or milk, as the farmer wishes, and
the stalks, if cut when green and we'll
cured, will be eaten very clean and serve
the purpose Of hay, especially for work
ing oxen; and while they are SO supplied
they feel the effects of good feed as read
lily as on any feed have ever given to
working oxen.n
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22
NASHVILLE.
One Thousand MoOnshIners Hasten to
Take Advantage of Attorney-Gen-
eral Devens's Amnesty
Hard Days Work for the
Ohicers of the Court.
Special to the Appeal

Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, April 2l.- One thousand
moonshiners and witnesses gathered at the
United States circuit court building, which
seemed a Yeritable beehive, this morning.
The courtroom was totally inadequate to
hold them, and they took possession of all
the porches, and even the sidewalks below
the courtroom were so jamned that they
were packed together as close as sardines
The heat was intense, the air almost sitting,
and the judges, clerks, moopshiners and wit
Gesses persplred as freely as If they were in
a Russian bath. 1t was apparent that all
were eager to accept Devens's amnesty, and
business was disposed of so rapidly that it
put the clerks to the test to keep up with it.
Nearly two hundred wildcatters accepted
the terms OF the amnesty, and contrary to the
usual custom, generally paid all the costs in
cash. Five hundred more will do likewise
during the week, while still four hundred
more will come in before the close of the
term. Campbell Morgan, who was the
leader of the Peak fight of last August, will
be among the latter. In conversation with
the Illicit distIllers they asserted that this
amnesty would virtually wipe out the bust
ness, and that further violations of the
revenue laws would be discountenanced.
Those who would have the temerity to still
continue The traffic, would not average more
than ten per cent. of those who had made up
their minds to obey the laws. Judge Baxter
said this morning that the amnesty had been
granted on good behavior, and the severest
punishment known to the law would be
meted out to those who failed to keep their
pledges to the government.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22

arrived at by him, directly contrary to ours,
that careful consideration which is due to the
distinguished source from which the opinion
emanates. We do not, however, find any
thing to shake our conviction of the sound
ness of the opinion we originally expressed to
you. 1t IS as clear to our minds now as 1t
was then that the holders of State bonds have
no lien or claim whatever upon the railroads.
We think Mr.. O'Conor's conclusion is based
upon quite mistaken views, as well of the real
intent and purpose of the legislative act In
question as of its legal construction and eff
fects, and of the real mature of the transac-
ton as between the State and the railroad
company, and the original purchasers of the
State bonds, as we'll understood by all parties
at that time, and that the more thoroughly
the subject is examined in all its bearings,
the more clearly must come out the inevitable
conclusion that there is no such lien as is as
serted on behalf of the State bond
holders. If there could other
wise be any legal doubt upon the
question we should regard 1t as concluslyelv
settled against the pretenslons of the State
bondholders by the decision of the supreme
court Of the United States in the case of
Chamberlain US. the st. Paul and Sioux City
railroad company, rendered In 1875, and re-
ported in 2 Otto's Reports, p. 90, case
which Mr.. OConor's opinion does not dis
cuss nor even refer to, although it appears to
US to be entirely decisive against the correct
ness of the views which he advances We
do not undertake here any discussion In de-
tail of the points argued in Mr.. O'Conor's
opinion, nor any presentation of the contrary
positions upon which we rely. If there were
deemed to be any occasion for our doing so
the present pressure upon US of other pro-
fessional engagements which cannot be post
Poned would prevent our performing that
task at the present iims-ssith that complete
ness which we should deem fitting If 1t were
to be done at ALL
EYARTS. SnITTHMAYn 4 CHnArF
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22
A DEAD SHOT.
Two Men Engage in Mortal Combat In
Vicksburs at One O'clock sun
day Morning One Killed
and Two Wounded.

-Vlcksburg Herald, Goth: ga fatal shooting
affray occurred in the room over the Alham-
bra varieties at half-past one o'clock this
morning. Owing to the lateness of the hour
at which we write, it is impossible to ascer-
tain the origin of the difficulty or to give any
particulars, but from what we can learn it
appears that Captain Jack Brereton, of the
city police force, and Mr.. John Dent had
some high words. which resulted in resort
to arms. We are unable to learn who was
the aggressor or who fred the first shot,
but, from the best accounts we can
get, there were four shots fred. One
of these took effect In Mr.. John
Dents head, entering the left temple and
coming out on the right side, Just above the
ear, INJECTING a fatal wound, from which
death ensued almost instantly Captain
Brereton received bail in his right shoulder,
which entered just above the armpit, and
passed through the body. lodging just under
meath the shoulderblade. Mr.. Cummings,
doorkeeper of the Varieties, who was In the
room, was also wounded in the side, but the
extent of his injuries we did not learn. Cap
tain Brereton's wound Is painful, but not
necessarily dangerous. A jury of inquest was
summoned, and the matter was being investi-
gated as we went to press
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22
NASHVILLE.
Final Disposal or the Cases against H.
Iicit Disttllers-TwO Bloody Rows
One Man KILLED with a Pts
tOI, and Another Fatally
Injured with
stone.

NASHVILLE, April 21.-Seven hundred
violators of the revenue laws appeared be-
fore the United States circuit court to-day,
One hundred and seventy FIVE accepted At
torney- General Devens's offer of clemency,
and all the rest will follow suit. A large
number of the witnesses summoned were
dismissed.
A bloody row occurred in the thirteenth
district last night. Thomas r. Baker went
into MISS A. M. Singleton's grocery and
treated several persons to beer. Having
failed to pay for it she demanded the money.
and on his still refusing locked up the doors
and commenced striking Baker over the head
with billet of wood. Her brother, A. NJ.
Singleton, shot at Baker three times, one
ball making slight wound In his side, when
the latter shot Singleton through the neck,
killing HIM instantly. The coroner's jury
this afternoon rendered verdict of justl6a-
BILE homicide.
In the tenth district VIM. Wynne, 4 white
boy, and negro named Alex Spence, quar-
relied, which resulted in Wynne striking him
on the head with stone and fatally wound
inc him
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22
KENTUCKY BUSHWHACKERS.
and his Posse-A SmaII-Aized Fight
Results in the WoundIng or Two
Of the Posse, and the Retire.
ment OF the Whackers
from the Field.

LOUISVILLE, April q "A special dispatch
from Mount Vernon, Kentucky, to the Courier
Journal says that for several weeks past a
party of men have been holding meetings
near there, and have effected an organization
for the purpose of killing several persons in
the town and county, now on trial In the cir
cult court, should they escape indictment,
and have also threatened to burn the town
and hang certain county officials. Last Sat-
urday writ was issued for the arrest of sew
eral persons known to be members of the
organization, and the writ placed in the
hands of Ashley Owens, the county detective.
A posse of twenty-five men was summoned,
and together they proceeded to the house of
Jess Pittman, who lives near Pine Hill. Not
finding him there they returned, and when a
short distance from Pittman's house they
were fred into by party of bushwhackers.
The fire was returned, and some two hum
dred shots exchanged, when the bushwhack-
ers withdrew Two officers were slightly,
and one of the bushwhackers reported seri-
ously wounded
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22
EVARTS, SOUTHMAYD & CHOATE.
THE COLORED EMEGRANTs.
Meeting of Citisens OF Topeka, Kan.
sas, TO Devise Ways to Provide
for the Helpless COIOred
Emigrants.

ST. LOUIS, April PA Topeka, Kansas,
dispatch says: "a large meeting was held
last night in the operahouse, to consider
what shall be done with the colored immi-
grants from the south. Governor St. John
presided. Resolutions were adopted asking
the citizens to contribute to keep such freed
men as come from suffering, and transport
them to localities where they may enjoy their
rights and liberties with all other citizens,
and requesting the chairman to appoint a
Central freedman s committee, of which the
governor shall be chairman, to receive such
contributions of money, food, etc., as the
charitable people IN all parts of the country
shall send for distribution by said committee
or its agents, as occasion may require, and
this committee shall have authority to devise
such other means as the urgency of the oc-
casion and the needs of these people shall
demand. Over. five hundred dollars was
raised on the spot, and Judge M'Farland
was sent to Wyandotte to-day, with two
hundred dollars, to assist the immigrants
there. The governor to-day appointed an
executive committee, and a State committee
will b. appointed on Thursday"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22
THE STATE DEBT
COnundrnm Vet Unsettled, Yet the
Baxter EnlOe Committee Make
Quite a Favorable Report
The Citizens Commit
tee TO Report
Early.

NASHVILLE, April 21-The americans
New York special says: 1.-The Citizens COM
mittee concluded its work to-day, and upon
its arrival home will report to the people of
Tennessee, through the american. This
morning the Enloe- Baxter committee, ap-
pointed by Governor Marks, addressed Ex-
Governor Porter letter asking an expression
of the impression made upon the committee
as to the acceptability of the proposed COM
promise. A meeting of the committee was
held, and in responding Ex-Governor Porter,
as chairman, says: I'VE have diligently
sought the leading commercial and financial
men and such holders of our securities as
we could Identify. We are gratl6ed to report
a more favorable sentiment for the adjust
ment of the debt of Tennessee on the basis
proposed in the act recently passed by the
legislature than we anticipated, while we
find some of the largest holders of our bonds
hesitating to accept the offer, yet we believe
the very liberal spirit which pervades the
commercial and financial circles of New
York on this subject justi6es the hope that a
large majority of the holders of our securi-
| ties will accept the offer made by the State at
an early day, and that finally all the indebt
edness of the State will be adjusted on that
| basis. There are respectable number OF
| the holders of our securities who are not
merely willing but anxious to refund the
bonds on the terms proposed. We think
| they should be offered an opportunity of
doing SO. What opposition exists as to the
settlement lies less against the amount Of
fered than the absence of any special pro-
vision guaranteeing the prompt payment eff
the inteies Our bonds are more largely
held elsewhere than in the city of New York,
but we find the same sentiment prevailing
among others as with the holders In this city.
| Our purpose has been to impress the facts as
they exist upon the holders of our securities.
After that has been done, the responsibility
of adopting or rejecting the proposition is in
their hands. The only opposition seems 10
million dollars of the bonds, who have deter
mined to sue the railroads, on the opinion OF
Charles O'Conor, already published in Ten
nessee. Eugene Kelly, representing nearly
half million, refuses to sign the compro-
mise, but agrees to refund.
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THE COLORED CONVENTION
At New Orleans Favor an Organized
system OF Emigration, SO that the
White Man May Raise his Own
sugar, Cotton and Rlce-"JOhn
Browns Body Etc.

NEW ORLEANS, April 21.--At the last
day 3 session of the colored convention, the
committee on business reported, and after
reading the report, Ruby read a resolution
adopting the report, and spoke at some
length. He explained the facts in the report
that made the convention so FESTIVE under
opposition. He suggested organized and
systematic emigration. He explained that
the reasons for turbulence in the convention
was due to the presence of politicians who
interfered with the proceedings, and it was
trusted this fact would be appreciated. The
colored men last year produced thirty-five
million dollars of wealth and now it is pro-
posed to let the white men raise sugar, cotton
and rice. 1t was an organized movement of
the colonists. A negro exodus means the
loss of thirty-five members of congress and
the present Democratic majority.
The report was adopted.
Mr.. Ruby here introduced Mr.. Turke, an
agent of the Honduras immigration society,
who urged that the colored men should seek
that region as one of the most congenial eli
mates to their temperament. The subject of
emigration to Honduras was referred to the
committee on migration.
Rev. DIR. Newman, in an address, said be
did not think the colored people should leave
the State until the last minute, and not until
the situation became uncomfortable, but then
they should go in a body.
Mr.. Ruby moved that when the convention
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22

New York Herald: Recently the Herald
published an opinion from Mr.. Charles
O'Conor, maintaining that the holders of
Tennessee bonds have lien upon the rail-
roads in that State, to which they were
loaned. Below is a counter opinion from tbs
firm of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, of THE
city:
B. T. Wilson, ESQ, President East Tennessee, Viz
ginia and Georgia Railroad Company.
Agreeably to your request, we have care
fully examined and considered the recent
opinion of Mr.. O'Conor In relation to the as
serted lien on behalf of the holders of Ten
nessee State bonds which were loaned by the
State to railroad companies under the inter-
nal improvement act of February IL, 1850,
and the amendments to it, upon the rail-
roads which belonged to the companies to
whom the State bonds were loaned, where
the Indebtedness of the railroad companies
to the State for the amount of the bonds thus
loaned has been paid by or on behalf of the
company to the State in State bonds at par,
in pursuance of the Tennessee acts of 1S69-70,
or where, in pursuance of those acts, the
roads have been sold by the State, under de-
cree of the Tennessee court OF chancery, be-
cause of the defaults made by the companies
in the interest and sinkIng-fund payments
required of them under the international i'm
provement act and its amendments. When
you consulted us upon this question In De-
cember, 1859, with reference to the action
which your company then proposed to
take for effecting a settlement of its in
debtedness to the State IN pursuance of the
act of 1869, we carefully examined the SUBJ
ject, and expressed to you the opinion that
the statutory mortgage lien upon the rail-
roads, created by the internal improvement
act of 1852, for the amount of the State
bonds issued to tbs companies, was simply a
mortgage in favor of the State, which was
entirely subject to its control, and could be
legally and effectually released and dis
charged by it in the manner prescribed by
the act of 1869; that the act of 1852 does not
create any lien In favor of the holder of the
| State bonds, and that such State bondholder
has no lien or claim of any kind upon the
railroad or against the railroad company
through whose hands the State bond now
held by him once passed, either directly or by
means of treating the State as holding the
statutory mortgage lien upon the railroad In
| trust for its own bondholders. The opinion
we then gave was arrived at without doubt
or hesitation, the point appearing to us to be
entirely plain and clear upon careful exami.
nation of the statutes bearing upon it, an6
on consideration of the matter in its true re-
lations. Since then, as you know, the
question has been submitted to much discus.
sion, and we have heretofore carefully, anc
we believe exhaustively, examined the sub
ject in all its bearings, and upon being fur
nished with Mr.. O'Conor's opinion we have
of course, given to it and to all the arRu
naents it adduces In support OF the conclusion