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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-07

New ORLEANS, March 6.-The Picayune's
Greenvile Miss special says: "The back
water is still rising and spreading. 1t is now
from six inches to foot higher than any
previous overflow since the country was FIRST
settled. There will be very little land above
water from the river front places to the hills
beyond Yazoo river. Greenville is safe from
any possible overflow, though the low points
were at one time threatened. Refugees from
over Il owed plantations are congregating
here, and eur resources to feed and shell
ter them are being severely taxed. SO
far the relief agents have not COM
municated with our local authorities.
Our Board of Supervisors have asked that
some of the government rstions be sent here.
The need is Immediate. The sheriff of Boil
ivar county has lodged his prison
ers in jail here. He reports that
verv few planters in his county, with
auently the loss of stock there will be almost
total. The levees are thronged with
negroes and stock, whose condition is
most deplorable. As its extent becomes
known, this calamity begins to appeal.
The tax sufficient to rebuild the levees
would be almost insupportable, but that is
only an item. Laborers have lost their
stock and moveables, and are panic
stricken and in q demoralized condition
Could transportation be secured, there would
be an exodus from here to the hills. The
despondency of the planters and merchants
is deepening At first this blow was regard
ed as a disaster involving losses and hard
times, but now IT is assuming graver and
greater proportions. The most thoughtful,
as we'll as the most saDguine, look upon 1t 81
a disaster greater than has ever be-
fore befalIen the cotton country. 1t will
almost destroy the feeling of security with
which our local capacity to hold the levt c
was becoming regarded. Upon this reliance
wss based railroad and other movements oi
capital toward the Yazoo delta, and if il
goes all possible prosperity of this section
goes with it. Your correspondent does not
believe confidence or hope can be restored
without national help to rebuild It,"
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ST. LOUIS, March 6.-Charles f. Slayback
president, and some dozen leading members Of
the Merchants Exchange, sent the following
message to Mr.. Lincoln. secretary of war, this
evening. "The Merchants Exchange and
merchants of this city continue to receive
numerous petitions for assistance from
the suffering people in the over
flowed districts of the Mississippi valley.
These petitions, representing the loss in
material losses, are beyond all comparison,
and the amount of physical suffering is ap-
pslling. Large numbers o. people are not
only Impoverished and deprived of ordinary
comforts, but actually dying of starvation
and exposure. The calamity is general
and extensive that assistance, to be adequate,
must come from the general government as
the only source of sufficient ability to meet
it. The aid already rendered is valuable
and timely, but is entirely inadequate to the
great emergency. A much larger amount
ia absolutely needed to furnish the
bare needs Of present sustenance. Permit us
through yourself and representatives in
Congress to appeal to the philanthropy OF
Congress for renewed efforts in behalf of
suffering humanity in the unfortunate dis
tricts" President Slayback also telegraphed
to the Mississippi river memorial commit.
tee, now in Washington, asking them to call
on Secretary Lincoln and lay before him
the facts in their possession regarding the
situation in the overtowed country.
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special TO the Appeal
HELENA, March 6.-The situation is de-
cidedly squslly. The levee above the town
is in part submerged, and the water is within
at least six and half inches above the
river levee. The Walker street levee, which
protects the city from the current of water
running over the levee above, is intact, and
guarded by an efficient force, doing their
utmost to prevent crevasse through
the running over by the water, which is at
this writing, 7:30 pm, imperiliDg our city.
To summarize, L would say that We
are desperately pressed, and that the best
we can do is to obviate acurrent
through the town. Strenuous efforts are
being made, under competent direction,
to prevent a rush of water through the city.
We are fighting egainst odds, and boats
OF every description are in demand. In West
Helena the people are opening their parlors
to the sufferers OF the bottoms, and so far
there is but little actual suffering. Though
many have moved out aud in, in the modern
vernacular "all struck for tall timber" The
basin above the town, commonly known as
POortown, is under water, and the majority
of the residents here have been forced to
move out The all-absorbing question is:
Where shall-where can 1 put my family ?
And the answer comes like the dull echo
from an abyss. The fact is, the enemy have
met us, and We are theirs.
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The following note from the earl OF Gran
vile to United States Minister Lowell i
pripfad.
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At sunhower Landing, MIsy.

10 Ihe Edltors OF the Appeal:
SUNFLowER LANDING, Mss, March s.
Being in the oveIhowed district OF Missis-
sippi, it may lie of interest to some of YOUR
readers to hear how the overflow is serving
the lower part of Coahoma county. This
immediate section is all under water from
enc TO ten feet. Places TO keep stock on
such as mounds, levees, etc.-are at q pre-
MUM. At present there is very little suffer-
ing among the laboring classes; the farmers.
as a rule, are feeding them as if there was no
overflow. Stock, however, of every descrip-
ton, from poultry up, are faring badly. The
rains have been so frequent and in such tor
rents that to keep them in dry places or pro-
tect them from the weather is out of the gnes-
ton. 1t is almost impossible 10 contine
them to the few places that are not under
water, they will wander about in quest of
food, and great fears are entertained that
the effects of being III water 40 constantly
will be very disastrous after the flood recedes,
producing charbone, foot-evil, etc. 1t is said
by the oldest citizens that this is the highest
water ever known in this country. 1t has
driven many persons from their houses, who
are quartered with their more fortunate
neighbors. The water is in many of their
house,, varying from four inches to as many
feet. i know of an instance where the hands
on place fled from their homes in wild dis
may and sought refuge IN a large two-story
ginhouse. As a rule, the cabins occupied
by the laborers have stick and dirt Chin
nrys, and as the water has melted away
many of them, it is getting to be
somewhat of a serious question how to
cook what little provi.ions they have in their
already depleted larders. In many instances
many of the chimneys have fallen down.
Vast quantities of fencing has been entire
ly swept away and drifted over the FARMS
There are several large breaks in the levee
opposite the Totien place, but to what extent
it has been damaged we are unable to tell,
but fear the damage will be serious. If the
water remains up much longer, it is feared
there will be great suffering in our midst. A
great many stock are suffering now, and we
apprehensive that m any of them will be
lost We have no hopes of an early decline
of the river and are trying to prepare for
the worst Several colored people
have been drowned already; they are
very inexperienced oarsmen, hut will
venture in boats not very safe or seaworthy.
The farming community has and will in
evitably sustain heavy losses from the over
flow, and in addition two very short crops of
both corn and cotton for the past two years
in succession will place many of them in a
very embarrsss condition.
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At WashtngtOn
,pn1rrox.1R.r1oNs FOR srFFERERs.

ADDITIONAL RATIoNs FOR sUFFERERs.
WAsHINGToS, NJ arch 6-The secretary OF
war advises Governor Crittenden, of Mis-
souri,, thst he will send 10000 additional
rations to sufferers by the food. A telegram
has been received from the postmaster at
Vicksburg, stating that the levee has broken
al along the river and many persons have
en- drowned.
ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION ASKED FOR.
At an informal meeting of the members of
Congress from the States affected it was re-
solved to ask for an additional appropriation
OF $4O0, 900, and sresolution was introduced
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WE almost blush for shame we read
such a statement as the following in the Mo-
bi Adre. tissr. In giving partial list Of ar
ticles that have paid tax in that State, in itS
columns appear: Mechanical tools, $22S,-
500; farming implements, ST 100, making a
total value of farming implements and me-
chanic al tools of 1905 900; guns, pistols al d
dirk, 1854 ,25O. Or about $500 more in
vested in guns, pistols and dirks than in
farming implements and mechanical tools
combined. Comment is unnecessary. A
strict law against carrying concealed weapons,
conscientiousiy and impartiaiIy carried out,
would soon effect change.
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The cotton market yesterday opened and
closed quiet, with middling quoted at llsc.
In New York spot middling was 11ie, and
quiet and steady; futures closed dull, March
11.7S@11.79. In New Orleans spot middling
was IIsc, and quiet and steady; futures were
dull, with March quoted 115O. In Liverpool
middling uplands were 9-16d and Orleans
63l, and quiet; futures closed steady at
6 1921 for March, March-April, and 6 27-32d
{ ~ Auoust-Sanfemher A
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CONSUMPTION not only ranks first among
the causes of death in New Orleans, but
nearly doubles, as an ccasion of mortality,
y .llow-fever, or malarial and diarrheal dis
o tses Soil moisture and consumption are
lid to be related as cause and effect.
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In his neat paper, the Henderson (KyD
Reporter, Judge Simmons says: "The truth
is, the press of the South is too parsimonious
in its support and encouragement OF South
ern authors, and seems too much disposed to
wait and take its tone in noticing Southern
books from the tone of Northern journals.
So long as this continues TO be the case, and
Southern authors fail to receive a hearty
encouragement from Southern journals and
Southern people, there will never be any
thing like distinctive Southern literature"
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THE Hemp Growers Association have ap-
pealed to Congress to put such an import
duty upon hemp as will better protect it.
The association are not pro 'ectionists, but
seeing that other interests are bolstered up
with prohibitive taxation they think they
have as much right to it as their neighbors.
Evil spreads very often not from love of it,
but from the mere force of habit; so the
hemp-growers put themselves in the position
of helpless beings who cannot stand or go
without "protection." 1t is contemptible.
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direct ports

ROME, GA is making rapid progress with
its new cotton-seed oil-mill. The more of
such signs of progress that We can note
throughout the State the better. 1t is also
to be noted that the King mill in Augusta is
progressing, and will be fine mill'when
built. The South is awaking everywhere to
advantages of manufactures. The long
night is breaking into the glee of iocund day.
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THE iron exactors of tribute from sub
jected cotton growers are busy in Washing
ton. Oar merchants and the Cotton Ex-
change have need to be wary and watchful
it will not be pleasant thing to have to pay
eighty cents duty where thirty cents is
now paid. As that duty comes out OF the
cotton growers pocket, not the foreigners,
no effort should be spared to have "free cot
ton ties" as we'll as "free quinine." The cot
ton-grower has no right to be called upon to
pile up gold for the Pennsylvania graspipg
rnnnnnnlisfa
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,tracted Party Fight in Prospect.

The Republican members favorable to the
new rules do not believe the Democra attic
caucus can control all the mebers OF the
party to vote against the amendments pro-
posed by the majority report. They profess
to believe that as many "a twenty Democrats
will be absent or not voting. In no Congress
since 1872 has there been so many bills call
ing for expenditures of local character, and
of these a fair proportion would go to the
Democratic districts, more especially to the
South. Under the present rules very few
members are able to impede action on such
eills. 1t is evident, however, that a very
earnest and protracted party fight is to be
made over the new rules, equaling, perhaps,
that which marked the adoption of the pres
La.
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Consumption Cured.

BALTIMORE. Md, February r. ISL
Upon the recommendation OF a friend,
tried Brown s Iron Bitters q tonic and restora-
tive for my daughter, whom was thoroughly con-
vinced was fast wasting away in consump' ion.
Having lost three daughters by the terrible dis
ease, under the care of eminent physicians.
was 10th to believe that anything could arrest
the progress of the disease but 10 my surprise be
fore my daught 7 hsd taken one bottle of Blown s
Iron Bltters, she beg to mend, and Is now quite
restored to her former health fifth daughter be-
gan To show signs Of consumption, and when the
physician was consulted. he quickly said: 'Tonics
were requiredir And when info med that the
elder sister taking Browns Iron Bitters, re
sponded; That's good tonic; take IL ti'
ADURAM PHELPS, of Askey & Phelps.
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LOUISVILLE, March 6.-This afternoon the
United States life saving station of this city was
the scene of an i'm pressive occasion. C. Herndon,
behalf OF the passeners of the illfated steamer
James d. Parker as a token OF their appreciation,
presented the crew with a large silver water ser
vice IL is of artistic design, and one of the most
beautiful. selected from a large stock of George
Wolf S. The inscription is as follows:
Presented to CaptainfDavan and the life saving
crew. in recognition of their heroic service in say
ing the passengers and crew OF the steamer J. D.
Parker-March ,, lSs1.'
The officers of the boat, crew and passengers
were all rescued by life-savers 1t was quick work
and a brave act, and the passengers are enthusi-
sStc In their thanks and praise. Never did men
act with more proves and herOiSm.
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ONE of the worst evils of the protective
system is less obvious but more injurious
in its nature than many that at once
strikes a penetrating intehigence-it re-
presses invention. This is because it
Expresses competition. Without compe-
tition the feeling arises ito let we'll enough
alone" 1t is opposition, difficulty, the
pressure of circu instances, that stimulate
the inventive powers and arouse the mind to
effort. Necessity is the mother of inven-
tion," but protection is its mother-in-lsw.
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WHEAT spectators appear likely to get
into trouble, as they deserve, for European
news states that in consequence of the open
winter, grain shipments from Russia have
begun much earlier than usual, and that
India promises to be a more formidable COM
D ,titor with the United States than hereto
fore. No fewer than forty steamers last at
dates were on their way to Bombay from
diract norts
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DIED.

HUKILL-Mouday event e. March g. 1882 at 9
O'Clock, at l45 second street Mrs JENNIE hUEILL.
wife of Captain David HukilI in the thirty N IN
year of her age lCineinnati and Columbus (Ohio)
papers please eopy.l
Due notice of the funeral will be given.
GwYNNE-M. nhay night March g. 1852, at $50
O'Clock, ANNIE ". uwYNSE, aged tweuty-e ght
years.
Funeral services al the family residence. corner
of Seventh AMI Greenlaw streets, Chelsea, this
(rUEspAY) sftern 9on at 8 c'clock. Friends of
the family are invited. Carriages st Ho SITS and
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BUSINESS TROUBLES.

SukpeH sfon oI q bosiOu bankIng IT'D.
Boston, March 6-The banking bou-e of
Charles 4 Sweet & c.. suspe nded this morn-
ing, causing consider ble xcit. ment in 6pan-
cial circles. The house has been advancing
money, it is stated, to the Massachusetts
Central railroad, taking its bonds and
placing them on the market. The road is a
new one and its bonds have shrunk in value,
and the bank which has been carrying the
bonds called on Sweet s. Co. fer additional
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THE census returns show that in Utah Of
the 143 ,963 inhabitants of the Territory l20,-
2S3 are Mormons in good standing, 69SS
apostate Mormous, and $40 Josephite Nor
mons, while there are only 14,156 Gentiles
and 17I6 classified az doubtful"
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unds. To tai. call the firm ha- been unable

funds To this call the firm has been unable
to respond.
l, is stated that Charles A. Sweet & Co.
borrowed about 100000 from Boston
banks on collaterals recently, ard that they
held 500, 900 of Mas chusetts Central rail-
road bonds. A member of the firm states
that they hope to pay in full.
The firm subscribed to only $4,000 worth
of Massachusetts, Central bonds at ihe start.
but they have since loaned large SUMS upon
them and have OF late been buying heavily
to sustain the market. 1t is rumored that
the collapse of the Connolton Valley securi-
ties hasteued the disaster. The liabilities
amount to between $1,000 900 snd 81 000, 600.
The firm will not probably resume, but will
liquidate, paying dollar for dollar.
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Mosr lookers-on regard the scheme OF
building the Hennepin canal, TO connect
Lake Michigan with the Mississippi, as a
vain strife against the railways. The latter
will infallibly take the business it is to be
constructed to do, ii it ever is constructed.
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We find the following odd stateme

We find the following odd statement in an
exchange paper: President Grant said that
he had learned never to send in an important
nomination on Friday, as the newspapers
could destroy any mans character in the
three days that must expire before the Senate
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
AT Jackson, Tenn The Taylor Block
a.a Several Other Stores Burned.
Special to the Appeal
NJ n

Special to the Appeal
JACKSON, March 6.-Another fire tonight,
nearly equal 10 the one week ago, broke
out about o'clock. 1t consumed the Tay-
lor block, in which was j. r. Williamson's
large grocery, and several other stores ad-
dining, extending to Murrells dry goods
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SPEAKING of the impudeut Mormon Pc
titions to Congress, the New York Times says
"These memorials remind one OF the Mingled
curses and e1postulstions of convicted
criminal. They do not contain any argu-
ment; they betray the terror of the long
indul zed culprit" :"
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No SANE farmer who has studi ed the ex-
amples of successful farmers can doubt
that to plant cotton and buy provisions is
certain ruin, while to plant provision crops
and make cotton a surplus is certain pros
perity But some narrow souled creature,
when he thinks his neighbors will grow
plenty of corn, believes it will be smart
thing" for him to grow all cotton and buy
his corn of those who have grown it. The
people in the flooded country have learned
this year some notion OF what it costa not to
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The English have "crank" to try now,
but their COURTS will not show the ridiculous
ness and delay that threw discredit on the
Guiteau trial. Our inventors can beat the
English, but our lawyers are far behind
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REELFooT LANDING, Tenn, March ., 1882.
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hEELFOOI LANDINH, IENN., MATCH ?, 1857.
To the Editors of the Appeal
The Mississippi river is very high at this
point, though falling a little at present. A
great many cattle have been drowned, or
died. Many families have left their houses
an account OF high water, and are living in
gins and barns. A number of houses have
been washed away, people have lost all they
had, are in distress, and do not know how
they are to live until they can raise another
crop. DIR. Miller's wai ehouse has been
washed away; also those of George King and
John Perry are gone; SO is DIR. Smiths barn /;
our warehouse had the blocks washed from
one side. MEADoR x THOMPSON.
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DURING the last three years our imports have
increased nearly seventy per cent, while our
exports for the same time have increased but
nine per cent. So says the New York
Chronicle, and the fact is worth rejecting upon.
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FRANCE.


THE UNION OENERALES s SUCCESSOR.
The Ne sdger says: "The new bank which
it is proposed TO form to resuscit1te the
Union Generate will have nominal capital
of 50,000,000f. Bonds giving the right to
share in the profits will be allotted TO the
shareholders and creditors OF the Union
Generate as partial compensation for their
losses -
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ESTA BLISH ED 1S4(
INDICATIONS.

For Tennessee and The OHIO rILiey, colder, tdir
wedtIer, rortieJly riads, hiqher barometer. The
food in the Loroer Mississippi riR increase the
coming 0eeE, curing 70 The recent heary rains an
that region, and uiR probably reach its highest
point at Helena Satlrdap or Susday.
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The Chili-ReruYian InYesfieaflnn

The effort 10 hold sesslOns OF the House
Committee on Foreign Relations in secret
while investigating the Peruvian Chill bust
ness is likely to fail. Maybe representatives
of the press will be admitted, while the
general public, who attend merely as specta-
tors, will be excluded. The impression is
general that if the committees have any
leaning, that of the House is favorable to
Blaine, while the Senate is against his inter
ests. Gossip asserts that the Senate investi-
CATION will certainly be secret, and that it
will be more thorough and searching than
that of the House
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THE St. Louis Globe Democrat says: "The
time when, unless the law is repealed, the
country must come down with thump from
the gold standard to the silver standard, is
not so tar of az many suppose"
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small FatIure ar Louisville.

LOUISVILLE, March 6-The Falls City
Picking and Packing Company, T. c. & j.
o. Barbour, has assigned to John s. Long.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets about the same.
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NEW YORK, March 6.-The Telegraphers'
Association elected P J. Tierney president;
]. b. Taltavall, vice president; Charles NJ.
Jansen, secretary. Two conventions have
been called for the purpose of better uniting
the fraternity-one to be held at Pittsburg
and the other at Cincinnati. New York
declines the invitation to either convention.
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