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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
COTTON IN CALIFORNIA.

Everything, from wooden shoepegs to a
Chinese pigtail, grows in California; so, Of
course, cotton grows there along with the
rest. Down in Los Angeles and other parts
considered favorable, energetic experiment
ors are at work with harrow, and hoe, and
drill. The soil is rich, the climate is be-
lieved to be suspicious for cotton, and a
strong belief exists that the South is to have
a rival on the shores of the Pacific. Tenta-
tive efforts that have been made are re-
garded as extremely encouraging and the
cotton plant is to grow alongside the grape
and the orange. MERGED county has pro-
duced some cotton, but the principal encour-
agemeBt comes, just now, from Keen county,
where, it is claimed, the problem is satisfac-
torily solved. Thence ninety-six bales have
been shipped to San Francisco. 1t is to go to
the wooden mills at Salem, Oregon, and there
be worked up II California should succeed in
producing cotton pIentifully, it is intended
to work it up, not send it off for other pee-
pie to get the best profit out of it. The quail
ity of the above lot ef bales is strongly
boasted of. JUte is another thing the Cali
tornisns expect to make good thing Of. \
jute factory has been started this spring at
San Quentin, and by means OF using convict
labor big business in jute bags Is counted
upon and a good profit looked Tor.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
A GRAND SCHEME
For the Settlement of the Cumbe=Ia nd
E'Iateau by ImEnigrants-


There Is a movement under way TO direct
the stream Of emigration toward the Cum
berland plateau of East Tennessee. The
management of the scheme is in the hands Of
NJ. H. Allardt, Of Port Huron, Mich. This
gentleman has had q large experience in
settling emigrants, having been for years
one of the commissioners oil emigration Of
Michigan. He intends following the plan
that has proved very successful in settling
that State. About 800 900 acres OF the
plateau lands in Fentress county, Tenn, will
be divided into I00-acre tracts, and at the
outset will be sold at price which will en-
barra-s no one-probably as low as $ per
acre. The land has been explored by sew
eral practical farmers, and has been pro-
nounccd by them to be fitted for ordinary
cultivation, and especially valuable for rails
ing peaches, and the small fruits generally,
and for grazing purposes. The subdivision
OF the immense tract Is now under way, and
in the fall about twenty families consisting
OF Germans and Canadians who have had
experience in farming IN America, will be
located upon the farms. After they have
shown the capacity Of the soil, immigrants
will be brought TO Fentress county direct
from EurOpe.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23

THE people of North Carolina at the No
vember election will have to vote for mem
beers OF Congress in their respective districts
and Misunderstanding" There will also
be an associate justice OF the Supreme Court,
some Superior Court judges, solicitors and
county officers to be elected. County mat
tiers" the Raleigh Observer says, ''wiIl greatly
influence the election of county officers. As
the officers Of the judicial department are
non-political, there can be no partisan can
vass as to them. The chief interest in the
canvass will then turn on the election of
congressman, and thus the election will hinge
on Federal matters rather than State poll
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
MEMPHIS APPEAL
THURSDAY, MARCH %, ISIS:
"ExCEPTIoNAL CONFEDERATION.


Two points about the Mississippi river the
people Of the United States are clearly be
ginning to understand; one is that the Mis-
sissippi river, az a great highway Of the ma
ton, requires and ought to have such gov
ornamental supervision and such improve
ment will tend to Ii it best for discharging
those important functions for which nature
has so well, in the rough, fitted it. The
other is that, owing to influx from the north
ern streams not thus far provided against by
the government, large number Of persons
are left destitute, and TO commence the re-
qdired improvement Of the Mississippi as
soon as the river falls would provide them
with the means of tiding over their difficult
ties until things assume something of their
normal shape. Now we see, more tn an ever,
the wisdom of President Garfield in calling
attention to the necessity of the work that
presses to be done. Congress, he said, should
devise some plan by which that great river
shall cease to be a terror to those dwelling
upon its banks" it was demanded by
the interests OF agriculture, manufactures
and commerce. So well did that pen
etrating mind appreciate the impor-
lance OF thorough .and permanent i'm
provement that he proclaimed the work as
one requiring exceptional consideration"
If any who read the address in which these
two words appeared, smiled with disdain at
their expression and viewed them as the
mere vaporipg Of a Western man, events
have arrived that prove their error, and
President Garfeld's wise and just estimate
of the importance of the work he commended !
to Congress Tor exceptional consideration"
The blow to agriculture, the blow to COM
merce, the loss Of life, the misery and dis |
tress of thousands of citizens, the derange-
ment of labor, the loosening of social ties
all proclaim that the case is one for "excep-
tiOnal consideration" That something must |
be done is now conceded, that "the great |
river should cease to be a terror to those who |
dwell upon its banks" by the efficient efforts |
OF Congress is no longer denied. Let Con- |
gress do what has to be done gracefully by |
acting speedily. We ask no prem AZURE legis- !
lation or hurried measures; the government |
commission has fully examined the river and |
drawn up its plans, and those plans have the
approval OF one OF the greatest civil en-
gineers OF the age, Captain Eads. Delay is
therefore unnecessary and no better oppor-
tunity will occur to obtain the required labor.
Wisdom and benevolence both combine to
call for prompt action and exceptional con-
al derati1n
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
CHERRY PECTORAL.
Nothing Short of Unmistal1able
Rnnnfits


Conferred upon tens of thousands of
sufferers could originate and maintain
the reputation which AYERS SARsA-
PARILLA enjoys. Il is a compound of
the best vegetable alternatives, with the
Iodides of Potassium and Iron, all
powerful, blood-making, blood-cleansing
and DEMONSTRATING and is the most
effectual of all remedies for scrofrl-
lous, mercurial, or blood disorders.
Uniformly successful and certain, it
produces rapid and complete cures of
Scrofula, Sores, Boils, Humors, PIN
pies, Eruptions, Skin Diseases and all
disorders arising from impurity of the
blood. BY its invigorating effects it
always relieves and often cures Liver
Complaints, Female Weaknesses and
Irregularities, and is a potent remover
of waning vitality. For purifying the
blood it has no equal. 1t tones up the
system, restores and preserves the
health, and imparts vigOr and energy.
For forty years it has been in extensive
use, and is to-day the most available
medicine for the suffering sick.
For sale by all DRUGGISTS
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
THE COTTON SITUATION AND PROS
PECT.

There is one thing about our cotton trade
that we very frequently forget, and that is
that we are not the only cotton-growers in
the world. We are the principal growers
and we supply the world with the best cot
TONS but we hold no patent from the Master
of the universe giving US perpetual occu-
pancy of the worlds markets. Cotton
growers laughed when the English govern
ment sent some Of our planters-Mr. Finnie,
of Memphis, among them-to teach the East
India people how to grow the staple, and TO
day the East Indies is our steadiest rival.
True the staple of their cotton is short, but
they have wonderfully improved the product
and the way of putting it on the market, CT
late years. Egypt grows long staple, and IN
other parts of the African continent, where
cotton grows wild in the woods, long staple
may yet be produced as readily as sy our
selves, and much cheaper. Yet with all this
We bolster up and speculate In cotton, hold
ingit above Liverpool prices in way that Is
provocative of enterprises that may possibly
affect US strongly. The New York Post, in an
article upon the trade, considers the cotton sit
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
A TENNESSEE COLLECTOR
Charged with OHenses which May Sc
cure Him Place in Prison.

4 Washington special TO the Nashville
Banner says that grave charges have been
preferred against Colonel w. NJ. Woodcocs,
internal revenue collector of the Fifth dis
trict OF Tennessee. During the latter
part of December last a communication
was presented to the President charging
Woodcock with maladministration of the
affairs of the Office, consisting CT irregular
tiles and dishonesty in the discharge
of his duties. Among other things it
was alleged that he had permitted whisky to
be Withdrawn from bonded warehouse I'M
der his control before the tax was paid, con-
tray TO law. Supplementary to This it
also charged at that time that Woodstock
caused to be issued from his office letters to
his Deputies soliciting funds to bear his per-
soual expenses TO Washington Just to get
acquainted with the President and secretary
of the treasury" About the middle OF J an
uary other charg were preferred, consisting
of the allegation tn AT the collector had, in
defiance OF law, deducted from the pay of his
deputies and employees five per cent. Of the
amounts represented by the vouchers which
were filed with the treasury depart
ment, and upon which he received
credit for the full amounts. These charges
are all supplemented by the affidavits of the
different persons affected by the deduction
made in their pay. 1t is stated that if no
action is taken under the report Of the special
agent investigating the matter, Woodcock
will be prosecuted under the statute in the
Federal court at Nashville. The least that
can be expected is dismissal, in which case
there will be no lack of applicants for the
office, for it is by all odds the best public
office, either Federal or State, in Tennessee.
The pay of the Office is limited to $l400 per
annum, and under the head of Patronage"
it has the influence of eighteen deputy col
lectors, and at least seventy-fve gaugers and
other officers of less Importance. The bond
required is 100000, and the sureties have to
justify in double the amount OF their habil-
itY under the bond
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23

THE political demsgogues have much to
say about taxation but nothing at all about
the hundred and one drains upon the pro-
ductlve energies Of the people, the result Of
old-time custom, prejudice and ignorance.
One Of these drains has recently been stopped
in South Carolina, where, from reliable daia,
it has been ascertained that the annual cost
Of boundary fences exceeded S2,700,0O0 per
annum, while the State and county taxes
levied for all purposes for the last fiscal
year, as shown by the comptroiler's books,
amounted to only 81, 3OS ,316, thus establish
ing the fact that tie abolition of boundary
fences saves annually to the agricultural in
dustry twice as much money as Is paid in
taxes by all the industries OF the State COM
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
W. Iearn IRON the Natchez Dsmoeral ths

We learn from the Natchez Democrat that
a Boston company has recently purchased,
for cash, seven valuable contiguous pIanta-
tious in Chicot county, Ark. The total price
paid was $4,000. These Boston capitalists
think that there is more money in Southern
plantations than in government bonds. The
Democrat thinks that this should encourage
the people of the South to greater exertions
in finding out the secret of making money
by planting. This Boston company will cul-
tivate all the plantations have their own
supply stores their own oil-mill, and their
own churches and schools, and will make
their enterprise an independent and self
sustaining community.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG.
The Recently Appointed Minister TO
China-His Career from Obscurity.

"Gath" speaks kindly OF John Russell
Young, who, he says, has been a success on the
newspaper press from the moment of his en-
trance into II, without any special advantages
or education, about the year 1859. He had
the rapid perception, power of appropriating
knowledge, CT adopting the styles of other
writers, and OF extracting information from
acquaintance and public men, which make
the three leading points of Newspaper sue
cess. His skin was thin, his nature sensitive
He was a kind of precocious child, reading or
talking with older minds and nature nodded
him for some such work IS the press. In
another age he might have been a clergy
man or school teacher. His mistakes in
life are largely developed from his rapid
promotion, though he has had his misfor-
tunes also; but with flexible address and
quick alternative has passed on to some
thing else, and again recovered his ground.
Never possessed of capital, he has attached
himself in succession to editors of command,
beginning with John w. Forney and Sidney
Howard Gray, and then passing Cd to
Greeley, and finally young Bennett. Hard
work and an apparent dOcility have
recommended him TO all these. He has
never written like a man with a mission,
but has taken the conditions around him
to be good enough, and sometimes has
advocated the most reprehensibe leaders
OF those conditions, from an idea that
it is beneath d worldly man to despise
passing success. Yet this view OF life
ought to make him successful in the diplO-
matte field. ! omitted to mention General
Grant as one OF Mr.. Young's patrons. 1t
was through the Cameron family and Cen
eraI Ben Batter, think, that Mr.. Young
WAS recommended TO Grant; and being in
London at the time, Grant resolved to go
around the world, and Young's modesty and
general information struck him as making
up the components OF good travelling COM
panion. Bennett saw Grant was not played
out as a news theme. He allowed Young
to continue around the world at an ex-
pense of about $1,000 q month. Mr..
Young's appointment is very creditable to
him, as he was the son of poor man, and
when ne first entered the press took place
as copy-holder for the proof-reader.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
THE MEMPHIS POSToFFECE.
Upon ScnuIIe-s Appointment Depends
the Election OF "a United States
Senator.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.

Special to the Cincinnati Commercial
WASHINGTON, March 20-The Presidents
delay in nominating Charles w. Schultz to
be postmaster of Memphis, Tenn, is causing
Tennessee republicans here much anxiety.
The delegation OF Shelby county, in which
Memphis is situated, nine in number, viii
probably decide the complexion Of the next
Tenness e legislature, which Is to select a
successor to Isham G. Harris in the Uni.ed
States senate. b 9TH parties, it is needless to
say, will strain every nerve to secure the del
egation. The incumbent OF the Memphis
postoffice is Mrs. Thompson, the widow of the
editor of the ArGiGn>he. The employees OF
the postofice are principally Democrats
The Republicans think that they should
be as soon as possible working Re-
publican. To that end they have urged
upon the President the appointment of
Schultz to be postm sster. Schultz is a prom
ineut business man OF unexceptional reputa-
ton, and a working Republican. He ought,
say these Tennessee Republicans, to have
been appointed on the let Of January. By
this time the postofice would have been re-
organized, and the work OF the campaign
would have been well under way. The cleo
ton Will be held in August. II the Repub-
licans lose control Of the legislature, they
will be apt to attribute their lo5s 60 the de
lay in Schulty's appointment. The active
opposition Of Senator Harris, who i person
ally Interested, has brought sbou. the delay.
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out a scanty living. He was plain 'Tom
OConner" then, regarded a. a common me-
ehanlc and jostled along as best he could.
He went into an artillery
company, Joined the Confederate forces, and
made a gallant and faithful soldier. He
was never accused Of cOwsrdiCe or untrue to
the cause ne espoused. The war ceased and
found him, OF course, as poor as ever, but
new man IN some essential respects. He
seemed all at once to wake up 10 a new ex-
lstence and to realize that there was a future
before him which he was called Hpon to i'm
prove. He had energy fne common
sense-was shrewd, thrifty and full OF re-
sources, and started out with renewed ideas,
plans and hopes. From that time on his
star began TO ascend. What triumph, l
have no means OF estimating his wealth, but,
Of course, 1t Is extensive. He has hundreds
OF friends who rejoice at his prosperity and
respect him for his enterprise and his gener-
Osity. 1t is understood that he will now
make Knoxville his permanent home.
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ALEXANDER III. STEPHENS.
The Georgia COmmOner az He is Paint
ed by IA Republican Organ.
New York Tribune.


Mr.. Alexander II. Stephens has announced
his intention OF retiring from public life,
and OF devotinS the remsinder OF his days
to literary pursuits. There are those still
living who will remember him IS an emil
nent Wing, for it was a Wing that he was
elected 10 the House OF Repre- sentatives in
1913. Perhaps nobody did more than he
did TO give something like coherence to the
action of that usually incoherent organiza-
ton; and yet, like most Southern Wings his
allegiance TO the party always some
what loose. He drifted naturally TO the
Democrats when the slight bond which held
the Wings together was broken; and in 1859
ne for the first time retired from public
life. 1t will be remembered how
strongly he deprecated secession; how
be both spoke and acted against the
secession ordinance at Miledgeville in 1861,
and how at last he yielded TO pressure, and
acknowledged the Confederacy. He did as
much as any man TO persuade Virginia to
Join the ranks OF the rebels. Still he never
was a statesman upon whom the Confeder-
acy could rely, though he was its vice-presi-
dent He showed himself willing to come
back again to the Union, il only a way of
coming back decently could be discovered.
After the peace, although he was arrested
and held as a puolic prisoner, his heart was
evidently with the old Union, and whatever
the restoration policy OF President johnson
might be worth, Mr.. Stephens supported 1t.
He might have been in the Senate if his
State had been little prompter in accept
ing reconstruction. Subsequently he got into
the House OF Representatives, and there he
has been OF occasional value. But the
diton of his health, and the natural lack OF
confidence in his political stability, have
diminished his usefulness; and he does not
too soon quit the stage Of public affairs. The
American public has always been disposed to
judge him leniently, and for much that is
erroneous in his career he has long been for
given. We presume that the literary pur-
suits in which he may engage will be of
historical character; but it is doubtful
whether it is possible for him to write of
modern American history with perfect and
Judicial fairness. He has alrea0y given us
an elaborate work on the late war; and what
ever he may yet produce will be read with
interest.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
TO a CHILD.
AUSTIN DonsoS.

How shall sing you, child, for whom
So many Tyres are strung;
Or how the only tone assume
That fits maid so young?
What rocks there are on either hand
Suppose-'tis on the cards
You should grow up with quite a grand
PlatOnic hate for bards,
How shall then be ashamed, undOne,
For ahi with what a scorn
Your eyes must greet that luckless one
Who hymned you, newly born;
Who DER your ''helpless cradle bent
His idle verse to turn,
And twanged his tiresome compliment
Above your uncOnccrnl
Nay-let my words be so discreet,
That keeping chance IN view.
Whatever Alternate you meet,
part may still be true.
Let Others wish you mere good looks,
Your sex is always fair;
Or to be writ in Fortunes books
shes rich who has to spare.
wish you but heart that's kind,
a head that's sound and clear:
yet let the heart be not too blind,
The head not too severe ,
\ JOY OF life, frank delight,
A moderate desire:
And if you fail to find a knight.
At least-a trusty squire.
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edging that the tariff Is q mas or incon-i-t-
encies, often oppression, commonly absurd,
and not zeIi-contradictory, and that it, de
tails must be reformed. Railroads are built.
streams bridged. inventions adopted and ma
chinery constructed to cheaper manuiac-
tured productions, then moaopolist duties
are placed upon them to make them dear
Il is to stupid, monstrouz, falIacious and
wrong to endure, and the time IS not very
long when We shall celebrate the downfall Of
monopoly and sing the last requiem over the
CORPSE Of prohibition.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23

The spirit OF opposition to the tariff Is
growing and spreading. Like the spring it
approaches genial and kindly, ready TO re-
move obstacles to progress, to help the coun-
try on to a commerce that shall embrace the
whole wide globe in Its grasp. -Four thou
sand articles are at present submitted to the
harsh grasp OF monopoly, but he people
are becoming FESTIVE under wrong, and they
will protest effectually. Last fall the pro-
tectionist journals were exhOrting those in
terested to oppose encroachments, to put
down efforts to obtain removal of protec-
ton by e1empting particular articles as had
been done in the case Of quinine; now emf
nent protectionists themselves are acknowl-
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23

Z Manufacture OF chemicals Under Nc
Clellsn he was frat aid and chief engineer,
and when Mcclellan went 10 the head Of the
armies he comm anded in West Virginia. He
succeeded Pope in command Of the Army OF
the Mississippi, and MS campaigns until the
battle OF Chicksmauga are a part Of mill
tsry history. He was relieved, but sitervard
was sent 10 Missouri to oppose Sterling
Price. At the close of the war he left the
army. President Johnson appointed him
minister TO Mexico. but President Grant re-
called him. He engaged in mining interests
IN California. From the san Francisco dis
UIct he was, a. q Democrat, elected to Con-
gress by 1900 majority over Horace Davis,
p. hlicar,
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improvement of the Tennessee River

The improvements at the Tennessee river
are going on. There will be sixteen miles of
canal; it will contain eleven locks, and an
aqueduct equal to two locks. channel had
to be cut partially through solid rock in the
river Tor about two and quarter miles, and
a bed must be built through woods, over hills,
valleys, etc, for about fifteen miles. OF the
eleven locks, Nos. l, >, 3, +, > and are COM
pleted and ready for gates. No. is three
fourths done; No. is one-half done, and
No. 10 Is two-thirds done. The aqueduct
masonry is entirely finished. 1t was one Of
the heaviest pieces OF masonry in the entire
canal. Locks \ and B. on the Elk river
division, are we'll under way. About thirteen
miles OF the canal trunk has been excavated,
and about one and quarter miles OF river
channel has been depened by building
heavy stone retaining-dam parallel to the
shore. The Little Muscle Shoals division,
about six miles long, extending from Flor
ence TO Blinbridge's Jerry, has been made
navlgable by channel excavations and stone
wing dams, 50 that steamboats, can now
ascend to the lower end Of the main canal.
Ot the entire work on the canal, fully five
siXths is low finished