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Modern Carieature.


The caricature of manners and of fashions
is different from that which amused our
grapdfaihers. Once on time, for carica-
ture TO be effective, it was almost essential
that it should be ugly. Gillray and Row
landsOn are quite repnlsive in their dis
tortion OF ''the human form divine" and in
their fierce aud not too cleanly vehemence.
Tue caricaturist treated his victims as so
many criminals, and set them, so TO speak,
in an artistic pillory. Du Maurser and
Tenniel give US types Of male and female
beauty, with Just enough of comic humor to
make US laugh. And the laugh is only a
little broader than the smile with which we
recognize in Landseer's pictures the wonder
ful humanity of the dog. The older carica-
turists drew, in fact, TOR the tavern and the
club-room; the modern for the salon, and
even the bosdoir-in England and Germany
almost without exception; in France and
Italy only less so because the French, and,
following French example, the Italians, take
their subjects 10 preference from the less
healthy side of modern fashion, and revel,
as they do upon the stage, in the misfor-
tunes OF the deceived husband, or the firta-
tions Of the gdSdir and the eoeehe.
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A terrific wind and rain-storm occurred
here yesterday morning, giving place to fair,
cool weather. 1t is thought that the rain
must have been general in the Mississippi
bottoms, and the news from below is anxiously
awaited. Owing to the overfowed condition
of the country, news arrives late, and it may
be several days before the full details of
damage done arrive. Already advices have
reached here that Austin, Tunica county,
Miss, has had some of its houses washed
away. The Masonic temple there is reported
to have heen carried off. Water broke in at
Star Landing, and the town is flooded.
Twenty-seven families are shut up in their
houses without any way to leave, not even
dugouts being available; and people cannot
go from house to house. Many houses must
have been swept away by the wind, if it pre-,
vailed down the river as violently as it did
here. The suffering of the poor people who
are living on their house tops, who have but
little or no protection from the cold weather,
must be terrible.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Lancaster, March 9.-Tbe Cork Manufac-
turer's Association of the United States have
advanced manufactured corks twenty per
cent.
Detroit, March e.-The residence of Mrs.
NJ s. Fox, on Madison avenue, this city, was
burg ariz=d of S170U worth of jewelry last
night.
Ashtabuls, March 9.-The four-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Jessie Whetmore was
choked to death at dinner to-day by q piece
Of meat which lodged III her windpipe.
New York, March 9.-The Posts Wash
ington dispatch says: at Is generally under
stood among the senators that Ben Hills
malady is mortal, and that he cannot live
much longer"
Geuevs, o., March 9.-Peter Seabearl was
found dead in his house this morning, lying
on the floor. Death was the result Of 4 de-
te-mined attempt at strangulatiou- Illness
sqd poverty was the cause.
Quebec, March 9.-The Fourth National
Bank, st cost Of $4,000, recovered the se-
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THE Rev. W. w. Dow has been writing
upon the women problem. He says that
christian philosophy shows that nothing can
be done for women that is not done by wo-
men, which is tantamount to the old express
sion, "who would be free, himself must strike
the blow" which johnson maliciously said
was no more true than that "who kills fat
oxen must himself be fat" Mr.. Dow says
cause of the suPeIhaity, the supply exceeds
the demand, but this assert:o on does not meet
the paradoxicsl case Of WON an being paid
less than 3 mau, when her labor, ia q1antity
aud quality is equal to his. He is right,
however, when he remarks that on the stage
aud as writers, they are as we'll paid as men.
He also points out that the average Ameri-
can girl has an easier time than her brother
he must go out and support himself, she is
supported by her father until she gets a hus-
band. The girls training is mostly aimless,
the boys must train for self support, and that
is the reason why those women prove most
helpful VINO "have been brought up like
boys" These become hard students, hard
workers, depend upon their own energies and
b-ing into play all the facilities nature has
given them. Men ensure success by hard
study and diIgent practice, women who
would Be slc 'e~sfui must pursue the same
course.
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MINNEs BOMBS.
The Stale TreasuH err Enjoined frlm Pay.
ing Interest on the SeH IssEe

ST PAUL, March ID. A. Secombe, who
has m ,d- several iueff- cual attempts to en-
join the State officers against paying III. new
bonds. to-day filed his complaint against
Charles Kettleman, state treasurer. The
complaint sets forth that on the 4th day OF
Move embcr an injunction was Issued BY this
court against Governor Pillsbury, in an action
instituted by plaintiff, by which the def-nd-
ant was commanded TO refrain from signing
or delivering any OF the new bends of said
State, pursuant 10 the provi.ions Of the legis-
lature, etc, and the said injunction is still in
force and effect, having never been dissolved
or modif ID; that the governor, in violation
of the injunction, signed and caused to BE-
signed by the secretary of state and counter
signed by the auditor and delivered to divers
and sundry persons, under the great seal of
the State, new bands of the State to the
amount of about $4,000, ,0O0; that the said
new fonds bear interest, etc. therefore plain
tiff demands jud dgmentof the Supreme Court
restraining Charles Kettlman, state treas
urer, from paying any interest on any of said
new bonds, or from paying any coupons at
taohad fhprafn
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MISSISSIPPI LEGIsLATURE
The AppOrtiORment Bill Passed and the
Legislature adjourned

Special to the Appeal
JACKSON, March 9.-Both Houses Of the
legislature Adjourned to day. In the last
hours of the session the congressional appor-
tionment bill passed, as follows:
First misunderstanding Alcorn, Lee,
Itawamba, Oktibbeha, Lowndes and Monroe.
Second district-Tippah, Union, Benton,
Marshall, Lafayette, Desoto, Tate, Pamela
and Tallahatchie.
Third district-Clay, Chickasaw Pontotoc,
Yslobusha, Grenada, Carroll, Montgomery,
Calhoun, Webster, Choctaw, Noxubee and
Kemper.
Fourth district-Tunica,Q Qnitman, Bolivar,
Sunhower, Coahoms, Washington, Issaquena,
Sharkey, Warren and Lefore.
Fifth district-Holmes Yazoo, Lauderdale,
Leake, Attala, Neshoba, Scott, Newton, Jas
per, Smith and Wayne.
Sixth district-Hinds, Rankin, Franklin,
Copiah, Lincoln, Madison, Claiborne, Jeffer-
son and Simpson.
Seventh district ackson, Harrison, Perry
Greene, Hancock, Marion, Pike, Amite, Gov
ingtou, Adams and Wilkinson.
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S nator Glover's amendment constituting
the words "Cbinese laborers," wherever used
in the act, to mean both skilled and un-
skilled labcrers, and Chinese employed in
mining, prevailed by the same vote-yeas,
25; nays, 20.
Senator Brown moved TO strike out re-
quirement for the production of D passports by
permitted classes whenever demanded by the
United States authorities-carried on IRA
roce vote, the Chair Davis (III)] creating
merrimeut by announcing the mays are loud
but there are not many of them"
Upon the bill being reported to the Senate
from the Committee of the Whole, Senator
Iugalls again moved to limit the suspension
of the coming of Chinese laborers to len
years, which was lost--yeas, 20; nays, q.
The question then recurred on the final
passage of the bill, and Senator Edmund-
closed the debate. He said he would vote
against the bill as it now stood, because he
believed il to be an infraction of good faith
as pledged by the last treaty; because he be-
lieved it TO b. Injurious to the welfare OF the
United States, and particularly TO the people
on the Pacific coast, by preventing the de-
velopment of our great trade with China.
A vote was then taken and the bill passed
yeas 90 nays 10.
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BREAKING LEVEES
Reported All Along the Lower Coast
TGe News from New Orleans
Very DiscOnraging.
Austin, Miss, Under Waterway
Hon es Washed Away-RiFer Rising
Rapidly at Nashville.

Mr.. n. w. Speers, ar, who has for the past
! year been living on the Tyronza river. about
twenty four miles west of Memphis, returned
to the city yesterday, being driven away hy
the high water. His place is near Black Oak
ridge, point never before known to over
flow, but now nearly all under water He
was two days coming from the Tyronza, in a
dugout, to Memphis. Alter travelling about
fourteen miles in the dugout, he came to a
ridge, Where-a mule was employed to drag
the dugout about three miles, to another
starting point by water. Outside of few
ridges, the whole country, from Memphis to
st. Francis river is under water. Messrs.
Fulwood, Martin, Craven, Roman and several
others in the neighborhood were large stock
rsisers, and there we're probably 10000 cat
tie roaming through the bottoms when the
flood came. Many of these have been drowned.
Those left are collected on the ridges, or in
houses that have been deserted by the people.
The gentlemen named are caring for number
OF people whose houses have been flooded and
provisions destroyed. Mr.. Speers speaks in
the highest terms of the noble efforts of sew
eral of the well-to-do farmers to provide for
their unfortunate fellow-citizens Many Of
the poorer people along the Tyronza are
sadly in need OF assistance, having lost
everything. Thatportion of the country has
generally escaped overflow, and none had
made provision for such volume of water
as reached there this winter. Mr.. Speers
says be saw over fifty deer on one little ridge
near Msck's bayou, just after the first rise.
He could have shot deer from his cabin door
had not some one stolen his gun. Fifty two deer
had been killed within four days by people
in the neighborbood. Mr.. Speers reached
Memphis with his feet badly swollen and
q ute sore from being so much in the water.
He will probably be all right in few day.,
and return when the water goes down.
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Anthony, Window, VanWyeke, Mitchell,
Hawley, SewelI, Plat, Rollins and Sherman
against it.
Senator Frye, in casting his vote, stated
that he was paired with Senator Hill TGa.
on all political questions, but he did not con-
slider this political question, and besides he
had express permission from Senator Hill to
vote upon it.
Senator Mitchell, in announcing his pair
with Senator Hampton, stated that had il not
been for that fact he would vote against the
bill, regarding it as un-American and iucon-
sistent with the principles which had OBJ
tanned in the government.
The title of the bill was amended so as to
read: can act to execute certain treaty
stipulations relating to Chinese" though Sem
ator Hoar suggested execute" ought to be
stricken out and "violate" inserted.
The Senate then adjourned.
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OBITUARY NOTES.

ROME, March 9.-Giovanni Lanzi, an
Italian statesman, is dead
ROME, March 8. - Lieutenant General
Medici is dead. The chamber of deputies
adjourned as a mark OF respect.
BERLIN, March 9-Calixt Gustave Her
mann, Prince E, ron Van CourIsnd, the head
of the house OF Beron, at Wurtemburs, is
dead.
DETROIT, March 9--Jeremiah Godfrey,
prominent citiz-n, business man and active
Democratic politician, resident of this city
for nearly fifty years, died this morning,
after lingering illness, aged sixty eight.
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r,sSs G5 Their rss ~ina Force .r
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The record in the Flipper court-martial
case, together with the report thereon of
Judge Acknowledgement Swain, was sub
mitted to the secretary of war to-day. Gen
eral Swain was understood TO recommend
the mitigation of the sentence of dismissal.
The general impression is that the sentence
will be mitigated
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Attention, sttamboatmen.

New ORLEANS, March 9.-It is officially
requested that, owing to the danger from
wheel waves, pilots and captains of steam
boats will pass as far away as possible from
the levees at exposed and threatened points,
and run slowly and carefully. 1t is also re-
quested that steamboats, will cease running
altogether for the present in Bayou La
Fourche.
A dispatch from Bayou Sara says two bad
breaks o. CURED in the Point Coupee levee,
endangering large district Of sugar planta-
,i0pa
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THE y ESA TIE.



Senator Hawley was followed by Senator
Jones, who controverted the positions taken
by the senators from Massachusetts,, AMI pre-
sented the considerations that impelled the
people of the Pacific coast TO abjure their
brethren of other States to come to their as
sistance in resisting the tidal wave of bar
birism which wss submerging one after
another of their interests and driving them
from employment. Speaking of races,
Senator JONES expressed the belief that
il left alone to maintain their own govern
ment the negro would gradually retrograde,
and go back to the methods of bis ances-
tors. This" he added, "may be heresy
but / believe it to be the truth. If, when
the first ship-lo load of African slaves came to
this country the 5eli, f had spresd that they
would be the cause OF political agitation and
civil war, and the future had been foreseep,
would they have been allowed to land? How
much OF this country would be worth
preserving if the North had been covered by
the Afric IN as in South Carolina to day? In
view of their non-assimilative characteristics
the wisest policy would be to exclude them
at the outset. So we say of the Chinese to-
dayp Senator Jones exclaimed, "and for
greater reason, because their skill makes
them more formidable competitors than ne
groes."
Senator Miller CCal briefly opposed Sena-
tor Farley's amendment as unnecessary and
not germane to the bill, and also replied to
criticisms upon communications addressed to
the Senate in support OF bills by the people
of California.
Senator Sherman, referring to the passport
system, said the bill adopted some of the
most offensive f. aures of European despot-
ism. He was averss to hot haste in apply
ing policy foreign TO the habits of our peo-
pie, and regarded the measure as too sweep
ing in many OF its provisions and as reversing
our immigration policy.
After remarks by Senators Ingalls,, Farley,
Maxey, Brown and Teller, the amendment OF
Senator Farley was adopted by the following
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THE decision OF the United States Su-
preme Court that the lawful test for i'm
ported sugars are their colors, not their sac
chariue strength, is arousing trouble among
the dealers and growers, and the treasury
fnds that it will have to pay back $4,000, 900
that have been collected on this false mode
of classification. The effect of the decision
will be to cheaper sugar to the people, but
that effect will be nextralized if an effort
now making to put end to the reciprocity
treaty with Hawaii should be successful.
Dear food and dear clothing make heavy
inroads Tn the gains of our laboring popula-
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The cotton market yesterday opened
st.aly, with low middlings and middling
raised &c, and closed steady, with good de-
mand, middling quoted at 114c. In New
York spot middling was IL &c, and steady; fu-
lures closed steady, March 11.s5@1I.86. In
New Orleans spot middling was 114c, and
firm; futures were steady, withMarch quoted
11.649ll.7o. In Liverpool middling up
lands were 6si, and Orleans 13 16d, and
active; futures closed dull and easier at s-16d
for March, March-ApriI, and 6 57-64d for
gust-s;eotember
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curities which r n. Cornwsll, clerk, aged
sixty-hve years, had stolen and hypothe-
Gated. Cornwe1l is sick at his home at
Plain6eld, n. ]. He will be prosecuted.
Milwaukee, March 9-The most severe
snow-storm of the season prevailed here ali
afternoon and night, and will cause great de-
lay to trains all through the Northwest, if
not an absolute blockade The wind reached
at times a velocity of forty-four miles per
hour.
Quebec, March 9-At the opening of the
legislature, to-day, the lieutenant governor
spoke of the recent attempt to shoot the
queen, which had been the occasion of
universal sorrow and amazement He ex-
pressed profound sympathy with the United
States in the killing of President Garfield.
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FRANCE.
CHEEKY DEADHEADIsM.

PARIS, March 9.-The recent vote in the
chamber of deputies in favor of q conclusion
of the agreement with the railway compa-
nies by which members of the chamber
would have the right to travel anywhere in
France for the payment of 120f year, has
created very unfavorable comment. A pri-
vate person would have to pay i, ,900f. for a
similar privilege. 1t is presumed that the
railway companies expect some legislative
favors in consideration for doing this dead
head business. There is also a revival OF
the movement for increasing the salaries of
the members of the chamber of deputies to
12,0OOf. per year. A deputation on the sub
ject waited upon De Frevcipet, president of
the council, yesterday. He is said TO favor
the project The Times remarks that no
cabinet could be expected to resist it.
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ST. LOUIS, March 9.-The S:arrett Com
paBy furniture wareroOms on Christie ave-
nue., between Second and Third streets, a two
story brick, was burned at II o'clock this
morning. The building burned to the
ground and the stock is a total loss. Fully
taneous combustion. LaieT-The loss Is
about $4,000 and about hall the stock in
the building was saved. The building vas
only a warehouse and finishing shop, and
had no connection with the firms large sales.
room on Fourth street.
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DIR. DROOMGOOLE,
A Former MemphisB, Assaulted and
Pretty Badly Punished.

Special to the ApDeal.l
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 9.-Dr. Doom
goole was assaulted yesterday at 1 o'clock in
his Office by Messrs. Walker, of the Dixie
Advertising agency; Parvin. of the Cincin-
natl agency, and Nelson Chesman, of the St.
Louis agency. While Dr.. Droomgoole's
condition is thought critical, his friends en-
tertaiu strong hopes of a speedy recovery.
Mr.. Chesman is seriously injured. The
oihers .es.aned With only slight hruises
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PROPOSITION is to be reported to Con-
gross to send by telegraph, at noon each day,
the standard Washington time. This will be
of great utility, especially with respect to
the dispatchins of railroad trains. Some Of
the railroads are discussing project to 90
away with "a.m." and 'pm." in timetables,
and to adopt the system OF dividing the day
into twenty-four hours instead of two twelve
hours. This Improvement would make it
much easier to understand those tables. For
instarce, 81 h. 80 M would be $50 at night
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River Rising Rapidly at Nashville.

NASHVILLE, March 9.-The river is rising
at the rate Of three inches per hour, with
forty-three feet six inches on the gauge-three
feet six inches above the danger line. The
horses were removed from the race-course
again to-day on account of the encroach-
ment of the water, and families in the lower
portion of the city are moving out.
A dispatch from Point Burnside, the head
of navigation, says that there has been
heavy rain, and the river is twenty feet
above low-water mark and still rising, with
prospects for a good rise. .s
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rice fumes, at points between Baton Rouge
and the mouth Of the river, are reported
almost daily, but no serious damage has re-
suited.
Red river continues very high and still
fur her rise will doubtless occur from the
effects of the rains at and above Shreveport
the past two days.
Many levees on the Mississippi are in a
critical condition
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IRISH home-rulers and British tories unite
in saying that atheists shall no. sit in par
lament, and Bradlaugh, though reelected,
is still without seat there. Such decision
will exclude only the honest unbelieverr, the
others will make no scruple about taking
and breaking, the required oath.
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THE strong expressions used by an infiu

THE strong expressions used by an infiu-
sltial Eussiau, General Skobeleff, against
Germany, assume more Importance as time
shows how popular in Russia is the idea of
making war upon Germany. 1t is thought
the latter country will find it advisable 10
cease showing ffiendliness toward the Aus
trian tactics in Herzegovina, unless it act
ually de, Tres such war That desire, how
ever, is not likely to exist, for, il France
should Join Russia in attacking Germany,
Bismarck and his policy would scarcely save
that nation from dire disaster.
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Some OF the people from the overfowed
country near Horn Lake Landing report
that on the 9TH instant Billy Williams, with
his wife and five children, attempted to come
to Memphis in a skif TO get rations; that
the boat became entaugled in some way, and
being heavily loaded began to take in water.
Nearly all on board jumped into the water,
and Williams's wife and two of the children
were drowned. The accident occurred just
above Colonel Ersley's place.
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IT is proposed to introduce a new national
bankruptcy system by giving the United
States District Courts power to adjudicate in
bankruptcy cases. 1t is alleged that the bill
uujustly operates in favor of the creditor,
and that it fails to confer power to disregard
State exemptions and State authority to make
"preferred creditors"
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THE newspapers continue to announce
more serious cases of failure than it is
pleasant to read about. Such instances as
the Boston bank failure on Monday show
that speculation has undermined, in many
cases, establishments that were thought, and
many that are now thought, to be strong
and safe. Every such instance loudly pro-
claims in the ear of the business ran
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The Chattanooga Times does not believe
in the honor of the State, but says; "Repu-
diation is an accomplished fact. The State
has paid neither interest nor principal for a
dozen years. If such treatment of the debt
isn't reputation, what is it?"
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SOUTH AFRICA.

LONDON, March 9.-The Bocrs and natives,
with three guns, attacked Chi,f Mont.iva OF
the 2lst instant. The latter rallied and
completely repulsed the attacking party.
The latter, whose losses are believed to be
heavy, again advanced on the 25th instant,
when they fell into an ambuscade and re-
treated, losing thirty eight, including their
commander. Chief Montsiva's loss is trifing.
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The front of our city is faced by an inn
mense flood of waters, whose angry current
is carrying destruction and dismsy to thou
sands. The sympathies of the entire country
are aroused in behalf of the destitute and
homeless people who are crying for aid.