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PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.

The Senate joint resolution to appoint
eighteen on the committee to redistrict the
State was adopted by both houses. The COM
mittee is not to be appointed before to-mor-
row or Monday.
Mr.. Warren, Greenbacker, offered a res
olution in the House instructing the Judi
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OUR Nashville correspondent, in the spo-
cial which we publish this morning, says
that the bondholders contemplate an offer of
settlement to the Legislature at sixty and
graduated scale of interest of four, five and
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IT is said by those who ought TO know,
that the President will recommend the re-
moval Of the disabilities of Fitz John Porter
and an honorable mastering out with the
rank Of major general, but no back pay.
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CHANCERY SALE
OF
R Il A L e 8 TAT Il

No 4222, R--Chancery Court OF Shelby County
Matte B. Jones, Assignee, use, etc, vs. John r.
Allen ct al
DY virtue Of an interlocutory decree for sale,
ID made in the above cause on the ID day Of
March. 1852, sad entered March 6, 1852, NJ B. 81.
D. 3d. will sell, At public auction, 10 the highest
bidder, in front of the Clerk and Masters Office,
courthouse of Shelby county, Memphis, Tennes-
see, on
Saturday. May Il, ISS2,
within legal hours the following described prop
erty, situated In Shelby county, Tenn, to-wft:
The undivided half istere<t of John K. Allen in
and to lots 4. 10 and IL. designated upon plan
Of subdivision adopted and of record in case Of
c. S. Allen ct al vs. John X Allen. No. $3.50 y. Of
this Court decree rendered April g. $50 partition
ing the property among the heirs Of William i.
Allen deceased; said lot No. fronting IS feet ca
inches on the south hn4 of Vance street. and ex-
tending back southWsrdly between parallel lines
40 fsefIo alley; taid lots 10 and II fronting each
Il feet inches on the east lir sok Aliens enue
and ez teading back easawanF< Do feet inches
between parallel lines. being 3portion OF the lots
conveyed or deereed 70 C. s. Allen in said par
tition suit
Terms OF Saloons credit Of six months, pur-
cbaseTs executing Dotes with approved seeartty.
beAri & interest lien retained redemption
barred. This ApTil :. 1852.
R. J. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
Humes Poston. soils for ConpIts
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WASTE no time; delays have dangerous
ends If a member of your family is suffer
ing with a slight cough or cold, don't wait
until it develops itself into consumption, but
procure at once bottle of DIR. Bulls Cough
Syrup and cure that cough.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-08

New ORLEANS, April 7.-General Jack
Wharton, United States marshal, died sud
denly in Surveyor Pinchback's Office, at $40
O'Clock this evening, of apoplexy.
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Two bills have been introduced in the
legislature TO apply the sI,l25.OOO Of in
ter,st money now in the State treasury to the
purchase of bonds. A good scheme.
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81 seen in Tuesday Paper that my Brother
Jessie James was killed | left Tuesday
evening this place for parts unknown every
Day can pick up Paper and see owr
names in it their is not a ROBBERY committed
but what it layed on Jessie & | We are
not guilty OF any of the Roberys that has
been done in the last year We never ROBBED
a Southern Man in owr lives if we new it if
we did we would give it Back TO him for
their is one of your citizen here that Re-
members the time we ROBBED the Stage near
Hot Spring we give him his Money back
but the Blue coats never get their Money
Back little Revenge don't bert no one for
Jessie and have had little and 1 expect
to have little More just think how my
Poor Father was killed by the Dam Blue
Devils & how they come out in TO the field
where was Flowing and take the lines of
of my Horse and hang me to my own pillow
only for Jessie l would of Died well we
began waylaying yankees & getting one by
one for about one year & we joined noble
Hero by the name OF Quantrel we had 81
men then & we made things Hot now & then
l have travelled nearly all over the wourld
since the war while Jessie would stay close
to Home old Pinkertin thought he could
get us but after one Pinkertin & others got
killed they let up they don't want but
think of my poor Brother they just as well
Hang Bob Ford for we have friends all over
the country that would shoot him as quick
as a Dog have a friend that drop this in
your Box after l leave & 1 hope you will
oblige FRANK JAMES"
On the bottom margin OF the first page
was written; ain Big Hurry; and the top
margin OF the reverse page this apology:
"the only Paper / could get"
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MccowN-Friday. April Z, 1882 at 1910 p.m., of
paralysis, JOHN w. McCowN, aged 43 years
Funeral will take place from his late residence,
No. 81 Court street. this (5ATURDAY0 afternoon
at O'Clock Friends and acquaintance are re-
spectfullv invited tn attend
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1t is generally understood that a PROPOSE
ton will be made by the bondholders next
week to settle the debt at GOA, COS or 60-6.
The investigating committees report will
be made tomorrow morning. Nothing could
be ascertained relative 10 what it viii con-
tainE
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ciary Committee to draft bill providing
that the surplus money in the treasury be
devoted to the redemption of the bonds Of
the State debt proper.
Mr.. Head introduced bill to apply the
funds in the same direction.
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ST. LOUIS.
The Volume of Business G. God and TN
General Lone Steady.

General lone Steady.
ST. LOUIS, April The general business
for the past week has been good, but not
rushing. The weather has been very favor
able for agricultural work and all the farm
ers are busy. 1t is expected that wheat in
the Southwest will be harvt sted two or three
weeks earlier than usual, and the prospects
now are that it will be both abundant and of
fine quality. Money has been plenty and
rates easier. Call loans are dropping down
to seven per cent, but the usual time paper
remains at eight per cent. The demand for
money comes from all sources, ard indicates
a fair activity in general trade. The whole
sale or jobbiDg business of the city has pre-
scented no special feature during the week
The volume of business has been good and
the general tone steady. Refined sugars adj
vanced slightly and coffees were not quota
bly, changed, though easier. Cotton ruled
steady, with fair spot sales and shipments
largely in excess of receipts. Wheat has
huctuated some during the week, but closed
higher than it opened. The trading has
been almost wholly confined 10 June and
July, and at times speculation was very
active. Corn also advanced, with principal
trading ia May, and closed firm. Oats
were also better, in sympathy with other.
grain, but fell off slightly at the close. Pro-
visions ruled firm throughout, and bacon,
for which there has been a large demand,
has advanced. There has been no specu-
lative movement in any article, but the
Southern demand for meat has been active,
while pork and lard have been very slow.
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GeneraI Hack wharton.

COLUMBUS, o., April Joseph Dowdall,
past grandmother, and one of the most prom
inent Odd Fellows of the country, died this
vsorriao
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Cotton Belt Bulletin.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. April G. 1882. pm
Average
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.x,r,.uooa and HI. Successor.

Senator Teller called upon Secretary
Kirkwood to day, and engaged in long con
versation regarding the business of the de-
partment. The new secretary of the interior
will not assume the duties of his Office before
Wednesday next. Secretary Kirkwood will
leave Washington for his home in Iowa i'm
mediately after the induction of the new
secretary into Office, and it is his intention to
make tour through the southwest during
the coming summer for the benefit Of his
health.
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CINCINNATI.
Business Hardly Equal to What Is
lsuRl Ihil, SeAs0n.

Business Hardly Equal to What Is
Usual at Ihis Season.
CINCINNATI, April TIE past week has
been marked by exceptIol.-l'y mild, warm
weather, with light rain, and the progress of
vegetation has been very rapid. Farm work
is also we'll advanced, and more than ordin-
airy activity marks the course of all agricul-
tural industry. This is no doubt stimulated
by the high prices of all farm products
corn, for instance, being nearly twice az
valuable as it was year ago. Wheat is
twenty cents higher than it was year ago,
and oats fourteen cents. There has been
much better tone to all kinds of business
during the week. Wholesale dealers gener-
ally are unusually busy with orders that
come in much faster than has been the rule
for many weeks. Groceries continue to be
active and firm; the continued advaxcing
prices seem to promote rather than to check
orders, though the busy farming season must
soon be felt in the checking of orders from
country points. Dry goods show a marked
increase Of activity, with firm prices, not
withstanding the slight weakening in raw
cotton. The volume of business, however, is
hardly equal to what is usual at this season.
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GOV. HAWKINS'S
Message Read in Both Houses-Yery
Important Recommendations
Prompt Payment Of Taxes
And the 1908 Act-Fees OF Sheriffs
and Road Law-PrOVision for the
POOr-Taxing Railroads.

Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, April THE governors
message was read in both houses to-day. 1t
is for the most part an elaboration of his
proclaim alton converting the Legislature.
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SPRISGFIELD, April THE Illinois de-
partment OF agriculture, from reports re-
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-08

THE President, Supreme Court judges and
members of Congress use German Corn Re-
mover Twenty-Five cents.
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ID. HIRsCH Col Old Judge cigars, factory
s73, Sd Collec. Dist.. n. J, ans best, 2 for &c.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-08

EXTREMELY palatable, and sure cure for
all malarial diseases Is DIR. Leslie's Quinine
Wine
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FRANK JAMES In MEMPHIS.
Letter from the Brother OF the Muir
dered Outlaw, who Is
Evidently on His Way 10 Missouri TO
Avenge His Brothers. Death.

The following letter, purportiDg to be
from Frank James, brother of the murdered
outlaw, Jesse james, was received at the AP-
PEAL office yesterday morning. The letter
is written upon the blank page of hotel
register, the name of which is carefully cut
of. 1t ia believed to be authentic, and is
published just as it was received, word for
word, point for point:
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ed in Memphis at am, April 7, 1851
HAMILTON, Signal Corps, L S.A.
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OBITUARY..


Frederick Drake, sculptor.
LONDON, April frederick Drake, the
CT LIBERATED German sculptor, is dead.
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A RELIC OF THE WAR
About to be Observation-Disclosures OF
EX-COnfederates TO be Removed
KirkWOOd and Teller.
Carp Culture-Gen. Sherman RejOieed
Over the Compulsory Retirement
Clause Of the Army Bill.

WASHINGTON, April 7-Hotse.-A bill
was passed relieving from the charge of
desertiOn soldiers in the volunteer service
during the late war, on prof that
they served faithfully until the expira-
ton of their term of enlistment, or until
the lat of May, 1865, but who failed to be
mustered out and receive an honorable dis
charge.
A resolution was adopted directing the
Committee on Expenditures in the war
department to inquire what, If any, abuses
exist, or have existed, in the adjudication of
claims in. the quarterm aster-genera's depart
ment, or in the commissary- generals and
third auditors Office.
Mr.. Washburn Mimi submitted the con-
ference report on the bill TO authorize the
construction of a bridge across the Missouri
river within five miles Of st. Charles, Mo.
Agreed to.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole, Mr.. Robinson. Mass. 10 the
chair, on the tariff commission bill.
Mr.. Haskell Ks advocated the passage
of the bill, and when he had concluded his
speech the House took recess
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-08
BACK TAXES.

/ am advised that large amount of reve-
nue. is due the State and counties on account
of taxes heretofore levied, and that the Of
ficers charged with the duty of collecting the
same are greatly embarrassed in the per-
Torrance OF their duties without imposing
heavy costs and expenses upon the State and
the defaulting taxpayers. 1t is therefore
earnestly desired that you in your wisdom
shall provide some more efficient means for
the assessment and collection of what is
kndwn az hack taxsa
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optClAi W lnS OiuClIudtl OouluuerClal
WASHINGTON, April 5.-General A. A.
Humphreys. United States army, chief OF
engineers, appeared before the House com
mittee to-day to give his views on the i'm
provement of the Mississippi. He was asked
with respect to the proposed Lake Borgne
outlet system, and replied it would not, il
adopted, injure the river below the outlet
This, he said, was pet theory of European
professors and .doetyinaires, who had never
seen river. He considered the Lake Borgne
project feasible and advisable. He said it
would diminish an amount of water in the
river below the outlet, but that no one could
say how long the decrease in volume would
be. It could be regulated by the size and
shape of the outlet. He thought the esti-
mate in 1875, of the cost OF walling up the
Mississippi with levees, S50,000,000, was
misleading, since in the event of the execu-
tion of that project the levees would have to
be exte nded to the tributaries, increasing the
cost almost inca leul abIy
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than may be found necessary to pay the or
binary expenses of the government and such
additional appropriations as may be deemed
proper, shall be collected for the year 1882.
BY an act passed April 9th, and approved
April Z, 1881, the sum of 81 ,l25, 900, or so
much there of as might be necessary, was APP
propriated to pay the interest on the State
debt under said act approved April 6, 1881,
from July /, 1881, to January i, 1882.
New, Inasmuch as the money thus appro-
priated, for the reasons before stated, can
never be applied to the specified purpose for
which the appropriation was made, rec
ommend tn at SO much of said act as makes
an appropriation of s., l25,OO0 for said pur-
pose be repealed.
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Ex-Confederates I'm the Army.

The Peru Chilli inquiry was continued to-
day. Shipherd testified that the prospect US
of the Peruvian company were chiefly sent
to senator's. Being farther pressed about
sendipg copies OF the prospectus to members
of Congress, Shiphsrd at first declining to
give the names, finally stated that the only
member of The House of Representatives
whom he recollected sending a copy to was
Hewitt n. V He mentioned his name,
as that gentleman had already stated the
fact in the House. and his distinct recollec-
ton was that from Hewitt he had only
verbal response. He had recognized Hewitt
as being among the capitalists whom he de-
sired to approach, and a capitalist he had
sent him documents, with note stating
that if he wished to lock into
the subject he (witness) would be glad to
confer with him. Hewitt sent him a very
courteous verbal response by the young man
who took the papers to him, and to the best
of his recollection that was totality OF all
negotiation he had with any member of the
Houss OF Representatives,. Rice. of the COM
mittee, asked the witness if he had reasons
other than those already stated for believing
in advance what he affirmed he did believe
of General Hurlbut. Shipherd answered
that he had General Hurlbut's letters ard
some other correspondence closely affiliated
with them. These letters were then read,
but developed nothing of public interest.
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NEW FIRM.
1875 Poplar Street, Memphis, Tenn.
Roy MISSING

T EE MATHES, aged nire years, mysteriously
IL disappeared from the Planters Insurance
Building, Wednesday, the 5th instant. about /
O'Clock m. no trace of him since; was neatly
dressed IN dark blue suit; wore cap without brim.
His complexion is light; han light and cut short
eyes bhck; is rather tall for his age, but spare
made; quiet in manner; wore buttoned shoes not
very new; stockings came up high and may have
been either black or red: has travelled some and
may have gone OF on railroad or boat; has spent
two summers in East Tennessee and possibly has
gone in that direction. am authorized to offer
a liberal reward for his return any information
leading 10 the discovery of his whereabouts.
W. DAVIS, Chief of Police.
MEMpIIIs nril
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-22
Personal Offsets.

The bill introduced by Mr.. Smith OF Newbury
providing that no more than one thousand dollars
shall be allowed In offsets from mans personal
estate, was passed In the house on Thursday, af-
ter an animated debate, In which futile attempts
were made to raise the offset to $1,000 (by MIR
Carter OF Hardwick) and to So, 900 (by Mr.. Plum
ley Of Northfeld) Mr. Wells Of Cranky said
that 1t would drive young merchants ont Of the
state; that men who were doing business on Dor
rowed capital could not stand the load Of taxation
which would be cast upon them Judge Thomp-
son and Mr., Smith OF Newbury were the leading
speakers In behalf Of the bill. They argued that
the passage OF such bill would prevent frauds
which all know to exist. The farmer had no off,
set on the real estate for which he owed-nor
should he have any why then, should there be
an offset upon personal property? Enough had
been done for the poor man In the thousand dol
lar exemption. Judge Thompson justly remark ed
that the cry Of driving people out OF the state was
bugaboo which we always heard when 1t was
proposed to tax people who had hitherto been ex-
empt. One OF the great reasons which actuated
members In voting for the bill Is the fact that II
will add about 1872 900 600 to the grand list of the
state: The bill was passed by yea and nay vote,
which Is given among the proceedings.
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The Rutland County Bank Bill.

On Wednesday the senate passed the Rutland
county bank bill over the governors veto by a
yea and nay vote Of seventeen to ten II failed to
pass In the house, however, by a vote Of one hun
dred fiftyfve TO fifty-seven. This bill Is to pay
the bank 1914 20, In repayment Of money which
1t paid out In sending Mr.. Peabody, the sheriff
and Mr.. George f. Lawrence, the states attor-
ney OF Rutland county, TO Denver, Colorado In
May, $780, where they caught and whence they
took home the banks defaulting teller, William
Q. Brown. The debate In the senate was parti-
cipated In by Senators Walker, Hogan, Boyden,
ColburD, Childs, Burnap and Cutting in favor Of
the passage over the veto, and by Senators Bling
ham and Crane against. Colonel Walker and
Mr. Hogan made the principal speeches In behalf
OF the bill They argued that the point made In
the veto that the sending Of the states attorney
was unnecessary, and the payment therefor I'M
precedented, was not true in fact. They said that
such payments had been made, notably In the
case OF Miles, the Barre bank burglar. It was
necessary because requisition had been obtained
and the respondent might have obtained a writ
OF hdbeds corpus out there In which case Mr..
LawIence's services would have been invaluable
Mr.. Lawrence was also Of use In helping TO bring
Brown home. Messrs. Crane and Bingham ar.
gued that local practitioner would have been faI
more useful than Mr.. Lawrence in case OF legal
proceedings In Denver, and would have had TO be
hired IL transpred In the course OF the debate
that Brown was not amenable to the laws Of Yer.
mont for his crime inasmuch as he was the off
Ger OF n national bank and his office was exclu
sivey within the Jurisdiction Of the fedora
courts, So the bail which was forfeited does MOI
belong to the state, and II seems difficult to see
why the state should pay for the expense Of get
ting criminal not punishable In our courts
Some OF the arguments advanced by the friend,
OF the bill seemed to intimate that the stat,
having secured SO, 800 In ball. which did not be
long to y ought now to "divy the swag" will