Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-13

| day given in its political Notes" whatever
| il transpiring in The several States in the
| Union and at Washington of a political
character. 1t presents to-day another budget
| full OF interest as revealing the schemes,
purposes and movements of political leaders.
POLITICAL MOTIFS.
/ The Ohio Legislature has rejected the bill
ab)lIshing convict labor in the penitentiary.
1t is now deemed certain that the New
| York Legislature will pass the Niagara Falls
| Park bill.
The New York Sun thinks the Congress.
sioncI r cord ought 10 be abolished. We
think go, too.
Maj Thos E. Bugg is announced as can
didate for The State Senate in the Thirteenth
district of Mississippi.
The effort is made to induce Col. W. A.
| Percy 10 run for the Legislature in Wash.
ington county, Miss., and we hope it will be
successful.
The Post Dispatch alludes 10 ''the legal
| polecat OF the st. Louis bar" Is this an in
vilation Tor another lawyer TO ''call and see
| the editor?"
The Hon. Erss,us Brooks, very promi-
nent public man of New York in bygone
| days, is dangerously i'll at his home on
Staten Island.
The Hon. Roscoe Conklipg is quoted as
saying: "Iu contrast with the Arthur sd-
minislration, that of Hayes becomes respect
| able, if not heroic"
The Cincinnati Ners says there appears to
be contest between the Ohio Legislature
| and the Ssar-route trial to which can run
the longest and accomplish the least
The Hon. L. L. Chandler, formerly
member of the Illinois Legislature, Is miss
ing from Virginia. H., leaving about $1,000
worth Of forged paper with his friends and
relatives.
A bill is now before the Legislature of
| New Jersey in which the license fees are to
be $500, with bond OF $1,000 for good be.
| havior, and the temperance people are not
even satisfied with that.
The Hon. w. H. Rses, after two terms of
serviee in the Legislature of Mississippi,
as h)ater from Prentiss and Alcorn counties,
| has retired TO become a candidate for the
more lucrative Office of Chancery clerk.
Mr.. Frederick Douglass, the colorsd ora
tor, who has made fortune and who la gem
orally regarded as the representative of his
race in this country, has recovered from his
illness, and is leoturing in spp-eciative New
England.
Mr.. George William Curtis, ia private
letter received iu San Francisco, says: "All
who are interested in great public policies
| will naturally attach themselves 10 psrlies,
but he is a very foolish fellow who make
party master instead Of an agent"
Gen. s. W. Ferguson, OF GreenvilIe, Miss i,
is an applicant for the vacancy on the Mis-
sisrippi River Commission. The Jackson
! Clarion says "his location and surroundings,
together with his unquestioned qualidca-
tions, would make his appointment proper
and desirable"
The governor OF South Carolina has de-
clined TO call special session OF the State
Legislature for the purpose of making an
appropriation for the defense of persons
charged with violating the United States
election laws, stating that in his opinion
such action would be unwise.
The Hon. James NJ. Causey, of Pike
county, Miss, died on the 9th instant, after a
lingering illness. He vas one of the promi-
nent amt NEST useful citizens OF Southwest
Mississippi. He had served his county two
terms in the Legislature, and was L member
Of the Board OF Trustees OF the Agricultural
and Mechanical College.
When Postmaster General Gresham is 10
auguraged president, he will make history
repeat the story of Jefferson, the saddlebags
and the old mare. When he left Indiana.
polls for Washington, be not only declined
the use OF special car but "he walked down
to the depot unattended and unheralded, and
carrying his own baggage"
The New York Times is pleased that
Judge Edmunds, of New England, ia we'll
spoken OF by Southern journals. The Vieks.
burg Herald says that Judge Edmunds or
Secretary Lincoln could carry more South.
ern States for the presidency tia Gen. But
Ter as a Democratic candidate. Perhaps
This will give the Times another phase OF
Southern sentiment"
The Benton Miss.l argus says "the election
of judges by the people lie sound and promi-
iient plank III this efseeEhaeG PLATFORM STe
do not intend to permit you, says the Jack
son Clarion to mopopolizs that doctrine.
The Democrats did not forfeit their claims 10
it by the acts OF the carpetbsggers who
framed the constitution which has taken it
awsy from the people
Elk Senator Window has been chosen pres
idenl OF the Topoovempo Pacific RailrDad
Company al S25000 year, pay able for four
yesrs ia stock al par. Cog Ben Butler, Jo-
sish G. Abbott, Frederick o. Prince, of Mas
sschu'e tIs; Z. 5. Grant, jr., Of New York
Joseph 4 Brown and John 3. Gordon, OF
Georgia, are among the America directors
and stockholders OF this road. The Mexican
directors are quite as well known at home.
There is bill fore the New York Leg
slaiure providing that the gift of passes by
railroads TO judges, State officers and mem
bers and employees Of the Legislature shall
be a miadeneanor. In Pennsylvania it is
proposed to amend the constitution so az to
forbid railway companies from issutug free
passes except to their own employees, and to
make the violation of the rule punish able
/ By fine eff $500 and Imprisonment Tor six
months for e5ch ana every ofense.
The Atlanta Consultation says III at Senator
Randall Gibson, OF Louisians, not only de-
tends Capt. Eads, hut predicts that the day
ia not far distaDL when the people of the
: Mississippi Valley will erect some fitting
memorial to the engineer who has given
deep water 10 the sea- The New Orleans
Picayune is pleased TO mention Capt. Esds as
the greatest engineer of the age potwith.
t standing that the Cincinnati Commercial ia
, nsver happier than when calling him the
! worst"
Gen, Butler denies that he talked Of his
expectations in connection with the presi
dency when last in Washington. There i:
nothing the general is more famous for than
, these denials. One cause of his soliciiude
, when last in Washington was over sug.
gesuon from leading Gfeenb ick man tn al
his party might nominate the general. To
this he is reported to have responded that
looking to his desired success with the
Democratic, it would now De fatal 10 him &c
be pat forward by the GreenbscB party.
The Hon. w. NJ. Inge, of Alcorn county
Miss, is an announced candidate for re
2 election 10 the Legislature. Ga the temper
ance question he occupies The middle ground
OF local option, leaving 10 each community
the right TO decide whether saloons shall be
g licensed in their midst or not. With Other
: questions his name Is prominently connected
, among them the supervision of corporations
the separation of the Executive and judicia
departments, in the determination OF which
e his voice will be held and influence felt.
e The Washington Gdzete makes this con.
fession: "GHfsid was killed; Arthur became
president. Ia 1880 no one ever thought Of
: voting Tor Arthur. When he became presi
!, dent, by the act of a lunatic, it was believed
d that he had the practical wisdom to be jus
a to all. Alter an experience with this man
now reaching up 10 nearly two years, thu
Gdzetts is bound 10 say that he mas amazed
: his enemies and dishonored mis- friends. w,
/ have always mad full faith in the Republican
v party. Whatever is right We are for, what
ever is wrong we oppose. The public acts o
the President aud come OF his Cabinet min
listers have been such that no honest or truth
y ful man Can approve"
q The Washington Gazette (RspublicaD
! says: "The Republican party is demorslizst
Z and in process Of disintegration, with a ma
: tional canvass near impending. The De
mocracy have everything as they wish il
TIE sole trust Of the Republican party ap