Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-06

were that a SUM would be allowed Gen. Lee
that would be entirely satisfactory TO him.
The bill would simply appropriate, he said,
liked amount without any details. This
amount would include the value Of the prop
srIy at the time il was confscated, aud a rea-
sonable sum for rents and profits from that
| time until the present.
THE Baltimore Day doubts If the record Of
any penal institution in the United States
will make as gratifying an exhibit as that OF
| the Maryland penitentiary. No;wlthsland
ing the fact that the cost OF nearly every ar
ticle necessary for the maintenance OF the
inmates was greater than during the previous
year, yet the receipts not only supported the
institution, but there ia a balance In the
| treasury of nearly Sl700. The entire ex-
penses for 1882 were SCI, 564 81. In all
| other respects the affairs OF the penitentiary
have been admirably managed, and the
directors deserve the thanks OF the COM
mupity for the highly satisfactory manner
in which they have discharged their duties.
THE Socialists OF New York are in costa
cies over the extreme utterances of Herr
Most in Chicago, and in some of the places
where they congregate his speeches are cut
out Of the papers nd posted up for general
edifcalion. Some Of these people, however,
his incendiary declam alton, has quite over
done the business, and that the effect must be
TO compel great many persons who at one
time were disposed to sympatblZe with him
as martyr to free speech, or something OF
that sort, to change their opinion, and TO ac-
count him simply az "pestilent fellow of
| the bsser sort" They have not entirely
forgotten the ''sandlot orator." Dennis Kear-
ney, and the disgust he excited by his ex-
IRENE utterances.
The New York Telegram, in an article on
| crime, credits Virginia with forty-three
murders last year, Texas thirty one, Arkan-
| sas twenty-four, Tennessee tweniy-one, North
Carolina nineteen, Georgia sixteen, Missis-
| sippi fifteen, Alabama eight, Louisiass
| ana South Carolina seven each, and Florida
three. OF the legal executions Georgia had
eleven, South Carolina nine, Louisiana seven,
| North Carolina six, Tennessee ard Texas
| four each, Arkansas, Virginia and Misss-
sippi three each, and Alabama and Florida
one each. Judge Lynch executed five per.
sons in Alabama, four in Louisiana, four in
South Carolina, Two each in Florida, Texas
| and Mississippi, and one in Virginia. Sui
| cides were reported as follows: Arkansas
| six, North Carolina five, Alabama, Georgia
and Virginia four each, and Louisiana and
Mississippi three each.
TIE Salt Lake Tribune says that sin the
death of Capt. Hooper the Mormon Church
| loses its brightest man. The Church has
| Two kinds of representative men-iis fanatics
and its business men. Taylor, and Cannon,
and Game, and particularly 10 Smith, IT,,
represent the fanatical branch; with them
everything is secondary to their Church, and
any service, no matter how wild or how dis
honest, which promises to further the inter-
ests of the Church, is Endorsed. Capt.
Hooper represented the business side. He
was Mormon, was in the ring; he had not
| the stern stuff in him 10 resist radical
Church measures, but the Church radicals
could never make him go euIside the law,
or make him do what they did or caused to
| be done over and over. We believe that in
| his heart he thought the adherence of the
Church TO polygamy was a great mistake;
we believe that he was offered the delegate
ship TO Congress in lieu of Caine, but that
| he refused 10 accept il unless he could go as
an American, untrammeled by any church
discipline"
Mr.. VIM CRANKsHAw, who has had large
experience in cotton milling in England and
in India, in letter TO the Raleigh IN. C.)
Observer makes some suggestions which are
| worth the consideration of any one coutsm-
| plating embarkiDg in cotton manufacturing
in the South. MIR. Crankshsw is satisfied
| England has nothing TO fear IRON New En-
gland competition in cotton manufacture,
but he is confident that she will have more
to fear from the Southern States if they will
in the future build better mills than have
hitherto been built 10 North Carolina. He
says the machinery should be such as will
turn off the greatest quantity Of work at the
least cost. The advantages of having looms
in a one story mill, Mr.. Crankshaw says, are
we'll known to all practical men. Mills OF
$1,000 or %, 900 spindles are more economi-
cally worked than mills OF 5000 spindles,
the latter, 10 use a sporting phrase, being
"heavily handicapped" with president, su-
perintendent, carder, spinner, mschiuist
clerks, salaries, etc.
FATHER RYAN, the poet priest of the
South, recently delivered lecture in Boston
on "The Decline 10 ths Poiitioai asd Material
Order of Catholic Nations, and the Ascend
ency in the Same Order OF Protestant Ma
tons" The Morning Star, Catholic news
paper OF New Orleans, took him to task for
limiting at a decline of the Church. He thus
explains: ITO the nsmeless writer l say that
did not consult single Protestant author
My authorities are Cardinals Manning, New.
m an, NJ. Mermillod, and especially very
remarkable work in French, written years
ago by Able Martin, very distinguished
priest, on The Future of CafhOlicity and Pro
teSrusns;s4a and especially prsised by M. Mer
millod, which work am myself translatiue
into English. The decline of auy Catholic
nation, or all OF them, in the politico- ma
terial order, by no means me ans the spiritua
decline of the Church. Only a stupid mine
. copfounds two things eternasly. separate
That the material and political power OF tbs
Catholic Church has been declining for 3
long time is evident to anyone who is not toe
blind to see facts or too dull to realize them
But this does net mean the spirital decline
of the Catholic Church"
; WHILE protesting that peace and gooC
/ will to Russia is the ruling sentiment in Ger
, many and Austria, these allied powers arr
!, strengthening their fortresses on the frontier
, double-tracking their railroads in that direc
, ton, and are on an actual war footing 0
100000 of men armed with the modern APP
pliances of murderous warfare. In the mean
time Russia is not idle. Its armies hav
been enlarged and strengthened; double
1 track railways have been constructed along
Russia's western frontier, and chains of tn
,, strongest fortresses have been completes
1 clear TO the Black Sea. More recently il j
o ascertained that torpedo projections hav
been placed along the entire Russian ooas
: inclosing the Crimea, in the Black Sea, an
e the Russian fleet in the Black Sea has bee
o greatly strengthened. OF course Turkey
!; the bone of contention. Russia is SILENT
preparing for further aggrandizement il
that direction, and the GermaH-Austria
z alliance is a counter movement not only de
s iensive but offensive. England and Franc
have as yet made no sign, bu! they are o
i the alert, tue former with an eye to terrific
g rial acquisition and the latter TO taking az
9 vantage of timely opportunity TO avenge
9 former aggression on the integrity OF its tel
e ritoIy. The signs OF the times are porter
tous of war.
, OXFORD, MISS.