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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
THE FIRST SNOW

Lie soft, O. gentle snow, upon the world
That now is weary and doth long for rest
SO cover with thy tender lakes her breast
And bid her sleep. Below thy warmth lies fuTied
The patient snowdrop, that viii be uncurled
When thou art gone So gently thou art pressed,
That, when they fad'st away, a erocus crest
Peers upsbove the mould. that still is pearled
BY Thy pure tears So should all sorroH lie
About our hearts. like 70 thy time of peace
lis then we lie awhile beneath Gods hand;
80, as the gray clouds fade from OF our sky
Flowers should bloom like spring; a vast increase
Sprung from our commune with the unseen land
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
Boston Transcript
HAPPINESS.

what didst thou say to Happiness?
saw her at thy gate
This l said to Happiness,
Thou CONTEST all too late;
Nay i cannot let thee in,
Where these graves are growing green.
It's meet, thou myself shall say,
That where my dead repose
Thou shOuldst hold thy revels gay,
I hou shouldst wear the rose?
Nay! ! will not let thee in,
Where these graves are growing green
Turned she round little space,
Smiled and softly said:
81 would even ask place,
There above thy head,
To plant flowers, myrtle and rose,
Making fair their last repose."
she the entrance gained at last;
How coald gafnsar
Such request? Ny tears fell fast,
But she won her way;
And the rare, upspringiug flowers
Wreathed to glorious summer bowers.
She has won my grief from me,
Wherefore, then, complain
Made my place of graves to be
Bright with hope again,
And, obeying each behest,
Joyiully serve my guest.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
Nilbor's Compound Of Pure COd-Liver
OIL and Lime.

The advantage of this compound over the
plain oil il that the nauseating taste OF the
oil is entirely removed, and the whole rem
dered palatable The offensive taste OF the
oil has long acted as great objection to its
use: but in this form the trouble Is obvialed.
A host of certificates might be given here to
testify TO the excellence and success OF VIII
boris Ced-Liyer Oil and Lime; but the TACT
that it il regularly prescribed by the Medical
faculty il sufficient. For sale by A. B. Will
Dor, chemist. Boston, and by 81 druggists.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
EGYPTIAN NArIONALIsTs.
Their Purposes as They arc Declared by
Their Military Leader.

Sir William Gregory has written to the
| Times letter on the native movement in
| Egypt. Sir William Gregory sought an in
terview with Arab Bey himself, the ac-
| knowledged leader of the national movement,
and obtained Arabs own explanation of the
| purposes and aims of the party which recog-
nizes him as its chief They have no desire
whatever, Arab said, for the restoration of
the authority of the sultan. They regard the
SULTAN as the spiritual chief of their faith,
hnt they wholly repudiate his temporal au-
thority. Nor, again, Gays Sir William Greg
CRY, is Arab in sympathy with the fanatical
intolerance which inspires some portions of
Islam. His championship of the national
cause is based on no sentiment OF religious
luminosity; he prefers to appeal to justice and
to the moral law, which he recognizes as
common to all creeds. On the third point
raised by Sir William Gregory in his inter
view with the Egyptian leader, Arab Bey
disclaimsd all purposes of establishing
military supremacy, but he avowed the doc
trine that the army!has right to supremacy
in time of war; and he declared that, though
Egypt was at peace when the revolt of the
troops occurred, yet they were obliged to take
the lead in getting rid of abuses and estab-
fishing Justice. The most important decla-
ration of Arab was contained in his answer
to Sir William Gregory's inquiries as to his
views on the subject of European con-
trOl. lie hdQ no 1Qea or WISH, ne sdlO, 10
remove the control to which his
counuymen were indebted for the justice
which the cultivators now enjoy, at all events
for the present, until Egypt knew how to
govern herself and to stand alone; but he
spoke with the greatest bitterness of the
manner in which his couutrymen were ousted
from every superior position in every depart
ment- Arab did not believe that the opinion
was prevalent that England desired to occupy
Egypt. He thought the English nation was
one, and would not take the property OF
others against their will. 1t was natural, if
a field was unprotected and the owners did
not care for it, that others should enter into
possession; or, if a house was full of precious
stones and the door left open, that
strangers should soon occupy it, and so 1t
would be were Egypt open and unpro-
tected But it was not so; Egypt was
anxious, SO far as she could, to defend
her Independence, and would defend it.
Egypt was looked upon as the center OF the
Mob smmedan world, and in every country
where there was Mussulman community
there would be deep-seated Indignation were
she to be annexed, and probably the loss OF
India would be ultimately the consequence
Egypt, if left alone, would always protect
the passage to India, which he knew TO be
the great object of England. Sir William
Gregory saws he took his leave OF Arab Bey
with the conviction that he had been speak
ing to No ordinary man.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
The Commercial Value oran Esthete.
New York Herald

We fear that the commercial value of Mr.
Oscar Wilde was Overestimated by Mr.
DOyly Carte when he invoIced that aesthetic
Importation for America. In the first place
| he will interfere with the patronage hereto
fore bestowed on Mr.. D'Oyly Carte's other
Mr.. Bunlhorne at the Standard, for the prac-
teal public will hardly care to pay a dollar
to see an amusing copy in Pdtience when the
great original can be seen for the same money
on the lecture platform. And even in the
latter place Mr.. Wilde's value is question
able, for it is uncertain if the local Mrs.
Ponsonby de Tompkyns and her friends will
pay a dollar and half TO hear aesthetic
chit-chat from the lecture platform when, by
opening their drawing-room doors, she and
her friends can indulge in aesthetic twaddle
for nothing. Mrs. De Tompkyns is practi-
cal woman and does not expend her money
in that fashion. She knows that aesthetic
lions love to roam through private drawing
rooms seeking whom they may bore, and
that their chief delight is 10 attitudinize, pose
'cling" and otherwise aesthetically disport
themselves among Mrs. De Tompkyns's guests
and furniture. What is the commercial value
of an asthete on the public stage whom Mrs.
De Tompkyns thus poses gratis in private?
We fear Mr.. Wilde's pecuniary usefulness is
gone unless he is kept beyond the reach of
Mrs. De Tompkyns's cards of Invitation.
The effect of Mr.. Oscar WIide's visit and
we are Tree 10 COnlesH, we view
with alarm. He comes TO talk about the
English Renaissance" and other artistic
pranks that he and his followers have been
indulgiDg in OF late. There has been an
american Renaissance" also, but it was a
harmless sort of affair compared to that
which Mr.. Wilde has come over to inaug-
urate. We fear that II will only result in an
aggravation of the foolishness that has
mildly been INDUCED in here by the local
Bunthornes and Lady Angelas in their
endeayors to be intensely antique. So long
as this merely resulted in fondness for old
furniture from second hand lumber depote,
under the delusion that they were
artistic and antique specimens because
they were riclety s5ugenirs of by-gone
respectability, so long as it merely
begot search after old Dutch clocks ia
ersey fsrmhouses, that Miss de Smythe or
Miss de Jones might seem to have family
history they never possessed, no special harm
was done. But If Mr.. Wilde is to import
London aesthetic ways into the American
drawipg-room; il the young lady whose
spinal column has only just become salts
fsctorily Strengthened out from the late
"Grecian bend" is now TO become limp and
'cringing" aesthetic, or il ber-well, If her
neither limbs, which have only just recovered
from the late Saratoga halt" are TO be
taught the new aesthetic stride" or If the
hundred and one other eccentric asthetic
contortious are 20 be inflicted on the imita-
tive youthful generation, then IL were better,
indeed, had Mr.. Wilde never been born-or,
rather hand he remained in the land OF his
nativity
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
Another Sensational Robbery at Inc
BrevOurt House.

CHICAGO. Janury 7.-Another sensational
robbery is reported from the Brevoort House,
where Mr.. Reese, of Colorado, recently lost
5000. A check for S4967 and watch and
chain were stolen from the room OF H ID.
McDuffy, Michigan cattle man, on Thurs
day night. The check was issued from the
stock-yard by the firm of McCurdy, Bev-
eridge & Co., was numbered "a ,l91, and male
PAYABLE at the Third National Bank OF New
YORK. All the circumstances of the aft all
is very mysterious, and it is the opinion o.
those in position to know that the PerPe
traitor OF both crimes is an inmate OF the
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
CONFEDERATE CASH.
Ex-TreasHry Agent f. W. Morse Makes a
Statement in Regard to the
Losses Sustained by
The United States Government by the
Withdrawal Of His Authority
100000

The following letter, especially interesting
at this time appeared in the New York
Herald OF Wednesday last and Is transferred
into the columns of the APPEAL as an i'm
portant contribution t0sthe financial history
Of our late Confederacy.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
italian bandits.

view 1DIh Ht1iA--
The client of Ex-Judge Shipman, who was
30 suddenly extradited from this city to
Italy has been fully identified there and con-
victsd. Nevertheless, Ex-Judge Shipman
and bis associate counsel very properly in
tend 10 press an examination into the irreg-
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
The IIlinois Corn Cron-

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, January The dis.
astrous effect of the drouth is shown BY the
report on the corn crop furnished by the
State department OF agriculture The total
yield is ia, 976,0 900 bushels for the year 1881,
or seventy per cent Of the crop of 1880. and
only half the crop of 1879. The greatest
injury TO the crop was in the southern divi-
sion OF the State.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
ro,oxr A Woon MrRRvwE,rH

COLONEL A. WooD MERRYwEATHER,
whom everybody in Scranton. Pennsylvania,
knows, writes and says; Il had long suffered from
a arrangement of the bladder and kidneys; it had
made my general health very poor. was also
troubled with severe indigestion; pills gave me
only temporary relief, and l experienced great
anxiety of mind as well physical distress.
friend recommended Browns Iron Bitters. have
used it with most gratifying results and just now
my health was never better, end feel that the
cure Is permanent
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
Trunk Line Dtnerences

PHILADELPHIA, January 1T was an
nounced at the Pennsylvania railroad Office
to-day, that If a settlement of the existing
trunk line differences we're left TO the regular
board OF Observation-Disclosures A. Wright,
Charles Francis Adams and David o. Wills
for settlement, that company would be salts
fed. Or it would consent to a reference of
the question to a new board, to consist of A.
J. Drexel, Albert Fink and Charles Francis
Adams
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
Authority Given Him as a Treasur

The Secretary of the Treasury, in a dis
patch dated June O. 1866 wrote to me In the follow
ing clear and explicit language:
THAT there may be no doubt upon the subject
(Of my authority you are hereby authorized and
empowered on behalf of this department OF the
government to take such steps as may seem to you
proper and necessary to recover and secure by legal
proceedings, voluntary surrender or compromise,
any Insney other property which was held as be-
longing to the s9called Confederate States govern
ment, and 70 execute and deliver full and proper
receipts and acquitances for the zane
This dispatch was forwarded to me by the seere-
try of state. with instructions 10 act upon IL and
carry IL into effect. II under this broad and
unrestricted authority that endeayored 10 effect a
settlement with Fraser, Trenholm & Co. on the 9th
OF November 1866 and twenty-one days after my
preliminary settlement with that house received
dispatch number four hundred and forty seven
from the state department, dated November p,
and the only part referring to the subject under
discussion.
referring to your dispatches numbers four hun
dred and eight and four hundred and nine, dated
respectively October ~ and ~ 1866 have 10 say,
that upon consultation with Mr.. Cushing, no reas
son is perceived for intcrmitting any efforts TO dis
cover and reduce to possession rebel property by
reason of it, possibly falling within the PROVISIONS
of the suits instituted under the direction OF MI
Dudley then United States consul at Liverpool.
If il shah turn out that the prosecution of your
operations and of those under his charge are IN
compatible ii will be time to consider what is eN-
pedient when the facts are known"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08

EXHAUSTED and enfeebled constitutions
suffering from dyspepsia nervousness aud general
weakness cared By Browns Iron Bitters
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08

l notice that the question oil Confederate
property left in Europe al the close Of the war
the 9th Of April, 1865 Is attracting some attention
both in Europe and America. and that speculation
in Confederate bonds L, TO a limited extent, in
dulged in bv e1Ine sangutne persons; also that in
the Hefcti Of October 18th you publish statement
Of what has been represented by some one as a
portion OF the property believed TO be 50 left and
accom- panied il By editorial paragraph stating
10000 worth Of such property at an expense OF
ABOUT sgJ Co.,
As my Connection with the subject is referred to
in your statement Of the Assets af the said extinct
government, and es ! was, while consul at London,
fully authorized by both the State and Treasury
Departments at Washington TO settle and ter
INMATE far as practicable the whole question of
the recovery OF such property in England trust
you Will allow me sufficient space in the Herald
for some remarks on the tubje and brief state
ment of the authority on which acted in attempt
ing to effect settlement with Messrs Fraser, Tren
holm & Co, of liverpool the chief Confederate
agents in Europe, and other minor and special
agents controlling such property
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
Theater Inspection i'm chicago.

CHICAGO, January THE report of the
committee OF the Citizens Association, who
have been inspecting the city theaters since
the Vienna disaster, is a very lengthy docu-
ment and is review in detail of each the
alter and public hall. The substance of the
report is that the theaters and halls are now
generally in far better condition than they
were at the last inspection, and those recon
structed and newly erected since then show a
decided change
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
AUsPICIOUs SIGNS.

As the genial warmth of the spring sun
breaks up and melts the ice which gorges
the rivers, so has time broken up and melted
away race hatreds and antagonism. This
was demonstrated here in Memphis in our
municipal election on Thursday last. This
city is located in the heart of a section in
tensely Southern. On the election of Lin
coin to the presidency, Memphis contributed
more than her proportionate share of the
enthusiasm that fired the Southern heart,
aud when the tocsin Of war sounded Mem
phis seemed to be vast military camp, the
central point for the rendezvous of the troops
of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Mis-
souri,, Texas and Louisiana. In no city in
the South did the flame of enthusiasm burn
with purer and brighter luster than in this.
Defeat did not extinguish all SYM
pathy for the Lost Cause" and those
who persisted in its defense, for
during the dark days of reconstruc-
tion aud military rule Memphis was still in
sympathy with the people OF the South. For
sixteen years the antagonism between the
whites end blacks has been bitter, and
relentless. The colored voters seemed
to take a malicious delight in hurting
their solid strength at the ballot-box against
ANYTHING the whites wanted, and the whites
looked with adherence not only at the idea
of a negro holding office, but his right to
vote. Such a thing as a colored man voting
for a white Democrat was regarded as a vote
cast for his reinstatement, and the negro
who cast such vote was looked upon as a
traitor and criminal. and was ostracised and
,ersecuted by his race. The Southern white
man who voted with and for the blacks was
branded as an enemy to the taxpaying
whites, and he, too, was pronounced unclean
and placed under the ban. But
behold the changel TT" ion on
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08

spent an evening with the Hon. Samuel j.
Tilden, and his conclusion is distinct that
Mr.. Tilden will not be g candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the presidency in
1884. Mr. Priest declares that Mr.. Tiiden
reads everything He is as well posted on
what is going on in the world as the secre-
tary of state. No part of the country escapes
his notice, and he is just well posted in
social matters as political-that is such as
becomes public.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
Brasher ON the scene.

|. Soon after the appearance OF young Brasher
with his contract Judge Isaac Redfeld was sent to
London, as ostentatiousy announced, with full
authority 70 settle the whole question OF Confed
crate property in Europe, ana T. II. Dudiy and
Titus above named were associated with the judge.
But it soon appeared that his chief mission TO
aid in carrying into effect the Brasher contract.
The proof in support OF this opinion is that they
acted in harmony on most questions concerning
sllch property and persons having evidence against
IT, It was understood, were Obliged to eommuni-
cate il through BIasher; but mainly and coneln-
siilely because. when asked the judge In my own
house ii he would take the facts and proofs which
Mr. Olger would present to him and examine them,
and If he found the evidence sufficient 10 recover
property upon, II he would allow him the fifteen
per cent which |, under my authority TO allow It,
had agreed to give him out of the net amount Sc
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08

MIR. Reagan, OF Texas, speaking of the gen.
eral outlook of the session of Congress, saws
that he believes that the Republicans will
try to shape policy, the leading feature of
which will be reduction of taxes with a
view to the perpetuation of the national debt
and national banks, and he thinks they NAV
succee,i in this nrncramrnn
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08

Thomas 81. Talbot, Massachusetts, poll
tician, has sued poor little country paper
for calling him "a Butler man." The dam
ages are placed at $5000 If Ben himself
could be hired to defend the editor there
would be fun in court second only to that of
the Guiteau trial.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08

Mr.. Riddleberger introduced into the Sem
ate of Virginia joint resolution, which
passed that branch of the legislature with
only one dissenting vote, instrncting and re-
questing Virginia senator's and members in
Congress TO give earnest support to the bill
of Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, provid-
ing for an appropriation of $150O0,O0O by
the national government for the support Of
common schools in the several States, and to
be divided in proportion TO illIteracy.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08

Two memories are alive ia the breasts of
the colored Republicans of Mississippi, they
say-those of the martyred President aud Of
the great soldier. That is, Mr.. Lincoln and
word to say. Perhaps they thought it not
the best manners TO mention his maine to
Mr.. Arthur. We feel sure that they have
not strengthened their case by the omission.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08

The GlObe-Democrat says that, ''inasmuch
as Mr.. Hayes did not save any of his salary
while President. he must have lost it while
playing poker" This is doing a cruel in
justice to the present road commissioner of
Fremont, Ohio. 1t is we'll known that Ruth
erford dispensed his salary in charity.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-17
Compliment to a Coed Man.

The Natchez Democrat a sterling Demo
cratic paper, t. which we are often indebted
f0ritems Of news from Mississippi and North
Louisiana, says that the Board of Supervi-
sors has fixed the salary of the Hon. James
S. Montgomery, Superintendent of Educa-
ton, at 81 900. Mississippi does not pay
her school officers very well, but Mr.. Mont
gomery has held his Office eight years, and
has performed its functions so theoretically
and enthusiastically that he has won the re-
spect Of the people of both Eaces and both
parties, and has given wide fame to the
schools under his supervision. He has GER
tainly amply earned the increase OF his sala-
ry' The popularity of this case is that
Prof Montgomery IS regularly reappointed
by the Democratic State administration,
upon Democratic solicitation, because of his
conduct in Office, notwithstanding the fact
that he is a conscientious and unwayering
Republican.-New Orleans Picayune