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American people can be deluded int paving
for another century 10 come, two and one
half cents for every pound OF sugar they
consume, lust for the sake Of having
it grown in Louisiana? The people
want sugar at reasonable price
much more han they care lori being grown
at any particular spo'. The country, also, is
not disposed to aoquiesce in the idea that the
American Union ia 10 have its liberty to
make treaties with foreign nations limited
by the protection demanded for the small
fraction OF sugar produced in Loui.iana
sgsinst the 1,s73, SAG. 900 pounds it imports.
II ii does not pay Louisiana TO grow sugar,
if the business is losing one, let it do ss
people 10 other bu.inesses do, abandon it for
business that will pay. If the change will
bring distress, let Congress make an appro-
prislion for the sufferer benefit, and 50 ave
the vsst annual outlay imposed upon the
country to support permanently distressed
sugar growers, who are carrying on bust
ness that does not pay.
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Married nv nDreve Of MuIes

A Richmon (Va.) correspondent of the
Washington Capital Tells of a little circum-
stance that happened here last fall that bore
great issue. A rifle as light as air, yet it
made a man and woman meet that but for
this episode would never have known each
other. As it is society talk, OF course every
one knows it, and l will narrate it just 10
show what inceIsidersble events, which
some call chance and others fate, shape our
lives. A large drove OF mules just after dark
were taken from the care of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad and c;rrsled, but come.
thing stamped,d them, and they dashed up
the street, halt hundred or sc, with all the
Clustering and fire Of squadron OF cavalry
at full charge. Pedestrians Rugged the side
walk or hurried into the nesrest open door,
and then looked psutingly al the dim rush-
ing mass. Now it happened that 3 young
lady from Boston, Macs who was on a visit
here, was coming from friends house, and
Just as she was crossing the street the head of
the CO. umn came toward her with the veloci-
ty OF an express train on a down grade. II
was 30 sudden that her presence of mird
failed her, and she stood directly in the path.
way Of the advancing drove. A thrilling
tsbleau it must have been. She clasped her
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BROWNSVILLE, TENN.
The Case of The State VS.. Thomas J..
CIaxtOn-A Petition TO the Leg.
islRture-Personals.
Regular Correspondence OF the Appeal

Regular Correspondence of the Appeal
BROWNSVILLE, March 10.-Circuit Court
is still in session. This week has been de-
voted 10 the criminal docket. The principal
case tried was that of The State rs. Thomas
J. Claxton. This case, on account of the
high standing of the parties connected with
it, excited unusual interest. The defendant
was charged with assaulting one w. c.
Rives with brass knuckles at Stanton, on the
h of August, with intent to murder said
Riyes. Claxion- is citizen of Fayette
county, and Rives resides In this county.
| Qhey ara both highly respected. The prose-
cntion was conducted by Attorney General
Tbom as, the Hon. John Z. Bond and Capt. A.
D. Bright. The defendant was represented
by Messrs. c. A. StaiHback ard George Har-
din, of Somerville; Col. + w. Haywood, OF
Nashville, and the Hon. w. w. Rutledge, OF
this city. Defendants counsel admitted that
he was guilty of assault and battery, but de-
MED the charge OF any graver otfense. The
jury returned verdict in accordance with
defendants admission and finel him 500.
The following parties have been convicted
of larceny at this term and sentenced TO the
penitent1ary: Walker Hamilton, tn rec years;
Frank Cole, three yesrs; William Gardner,
three years; Bill Mann, one year.
A petition 10 the Legislature has been
signed by many OF our citizens asking that
the line between Haywood and Crockett
counties be rot changed. This petition is
gotten up on account of resolution intro
duced in the Senate few days since by Sen
ator Mum, Of Crockett, to change said line.
This change would be an outrage upon Hay
wood county and her citizens.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF the Methodist
church will give a sociable at the residence
of Chancellor Livingstone on Thursday, the
18th instant, for the benefit of their church.
Mrs. Lizzie Lseper, OF Jackson, is visiting
Mrs. Livingstone. OF this city.
Capt. I. B. Pope. formerly of this county,
now of Texas, was here this week.
Judge W. p Bcnd srd family, old resi-.
dents of our town, have re urned from Rolla,
Mo-, where they have been for two years
past, and will reside here in the future.
Miss Siddie Wilson, of Somerville, Tenn,
is visiting friends here. KY.
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zxn,synyssrD sUsAK PLANTERS

There is a sugar plsnters' association in
Louisiana, and at meeting held in New Or
leans on Thursdsy last complaints, loud and
strong, we're made that the sugar industry Of
Louisiana had been assaulted from ali sides
during the late session OF Congress. That
interest vas threatened with heavy reduc-
ton on the grades principally grown by the
Louisiana planters, and threatened with a
reciprocity treaty with Mexico, in addition
to the one existing with Hawaii. Contrary
10 the asser lions that have been made, that
any reduction In the sugar duty would bs
beneficial only to Cuba and the rehners, the
association recognized that, while the coun-
try imports only $4,000 tons OF the 5000, 900
tons of sugar the world produces annually,
if cur importers pay less duty sugar
must sell at a lower price The associa-
tion's report showed also that Louisiana
sugars are protected by the average duty i'm
posed, not by that on the higher gadess; I'VE
should therefore," says the report, Shape
our efforts 10 maintain the duties on lower
grade sugars." The association is far-seeing
enough TO Tecognizs that the tariff question
is not settled, that other changes are Proba
bic, and it calls upon planters 10 organize to
secure the degree Of protection they require.
We think Louisiana will perceive that
the country has discovered that lis
ancient "infant industry" has too long
been = dead weight upon the people,
aud thst if it has not up to this time had
protection long enough, and heavy enough
to estab lish it on self-suppOrting basis, it
never will, Does Louisiana suppose the
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The three evil DAYS Of March tina; were 10
be terrible with disaster, and awful from the
destruction Of properly and life, have ccms
and gone, and where is Wiggins? The
mantle hiss fallen from bis shoulders and he
il prophet no longer. He could frighlen
THOUSANDS week ago, and now he il no
more than phrenologist, me'merist or a
medium. From Maine TO New Orleans,
from the Pacific to the Atlantic, on sea and
on land, destruction was to come hus;ling
through the air, and striding with the might
of mountains over the sea. II can call
spirits from the Vastly Deep" exclaimed one
Of Shakespesrs's characters. AYE, but they
won't come" replied another. And 30 Wig
gins called, and 80 disaster, havoc and hur-
ricane failed 10 obey his high behest. There
| is condition OF mind now existing very
widely that greatly favors such pretenders
Is Wiggius, and others equally unworthy OF
| attention in other departments than meteor
l ology. A very large part OF the population,
| including quite a considerable proportion
D.! lha. has received what is popularity accepted
| a. "a good education" know nothing OF the
I PRINCIPLES Of science. The latter portion are
more or less acquainted with certain facts Of
science, but they have attained to nothing oil
the principles underlying those facts, and
connecting and defining them, and express.
ing their relations. To these half-informed
minds there is little power Of detecting real
claims from fictitious prelencss, and nc
power of Judging whether the planets, being
i. this or that particular position, may NO
| affect the weather as their eat-grandfatherl
believed those aspects 'ruled" the fate O
| man. Thess victims Of surface knowledge
/ are commonly led TO adopt baseless as,er
lions from inability to trace the working
~Hs---s.-.-.-...-.As-s.- lsnaits Of those laws IL
accordance with which all the phenomena o
| nature take plsee TAe I--o-snt hsve seer
SO N any wonders come from applied Rcience
| the power to float in the air, 10 work be-
meath the sea, to rush over the land with the
speed Of the bird, 10 communicate acro,i
oceans and continents, and to converse with
| persons who sre miles away, all BY means Of
| agencies whose effects they see while they
know nothing Of the natural principle, ant
D wers from control of which these wonders
are accomplished, and therefore they car
form no idea of the boundaries that heSge il
mans application OF these powers. Thi
makes them crsduloa. and easy dupss, una
bic 20 sbIsIlDgulsG between the possession o
real power and the Wanting OF hollow pre-
tense; they are easily misltd, and thus ar
continually admitting the false 10 be tru
and rejecting the true as false. The nall
| knowing and the utterly ignorant are III
victims, upon whom Virgins and other pre-
tenders work their spells, causing the unsuE
pectipg to believe that they indeed can ca
spirits ron the vasly deep and also max
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FOREIGN FLASHES.

LONDON, March 1.-THE Zarzibar, g
British schooner, has gone to Madagascar
Another follows her.
BERLIN, March 1.-THE resignation Of
Admiral Won Stosch, Chief OF the Ministry
of Marine, has been in the hands OF the
Emperor week.
ALGIE.s. March 12-Arthur Wentworth
Dixie, brother of Sir Charles Dilke, and
who recently resigned bis seat in the British
Commons, died here.
HAMBURG, March 1.-THE Law forbiddins
the importation of pork, etc, Is not yet sane
toned. If sanctioned at all 1t goes IN iorce
thirty days after publication.
ArHESs, March 12.-The Chamber Of
Deputies has adjourned until The 18th in
81 ant, out Of respect TO the memory OF the
late NJ. Coumoundoures, ex-Prime Minister
A public funeral is proposed.
LONDON, March 12-Tbe betting on the
Oxford Can bridge boat race, Thursday aeIti
at first was 10 favor of Oxford, NOW il j.
seven to four on the Cambridge-crew, ouisg
to the better condition Of The latter.
QUEBEC, March I2-At New Redmond
Bonadyenture County, Johu MoQuarters's
house was burned with his wife and Child.
Pierre Parent, aged eighly-three years, died
soon after leaving the burning house.
LONDON, Msrch ia stay OF proceed
ing. has heen granted in the suit OF the kTug
oil the Bssians against Cinon Bernard, 70
recover 100000 in securities now In posses
sion of the sheriff. TIE securities were tiktn
by Bernard, cansn OF the Catholic Church
in Belgium, now IN prison there.
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A correspG pdent of the Detroit EreninG
Ners describing the celebration of Wash.
ington's birthday at New Orleans, tells this
pathetic story: The multitude in the streets
is singularly silent. A quiet glance into the
eyes of the older lookers-on showed tears
that must have frightened their throats like
iron; they were thinking of the other days,
clearly, when mimic wars had given place
10 mighty tragedies; and when boys who
N arched 10 rhythmic beats marched under
other colors, under other captains, to fields
far away, and never came back. Pitifully
wept an sged face, whose parchment skin and
shrunken eyes told too plainly a story OF
loneliness and restitution. she trembled
with emotion as she feebly forced her way
past where the staff surrounded Besuregard,
and with sire aiming eyes gszed up at him,
mutteriug some inandible phrases, half
kindly, half reproacbful. On the steps OF
the house in which this is written she
seated herself snd rocked her tiny body 10
and fro, while she cried as il still she had
a heart to break. Sympathy was offered
BY the ladies OF the house, and after par.
taking of a refreshing drink she told WHO
she was. No matter about the name; three
sons and their father, and all fell; two of The
SOUS with Beauregard at Corinth; one Of the
boys fingered in agony in a hospi al, and his
sitter, the only daughter, went to nurse him
and his comrades. She took hospital fever,
and the sick boy helped 10 prepare her for a
shallow grave on the msrsby plain. Widowed
and childless, the solitary survivor Of lam.
lily once in comparative sfluence aud ambi-
lious of social distinction, toiled as a servant
in the families of those who had been her
associates aud upon whom che looked down.
Old age has crept upon her hair and tbinned
it out and whitened it; her eyes are losing
their faculties; in abject poverty she spends
her rem aiming days, regretful, she said, that
each nights sleep was followed with another
dav,s WakinpD
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For Strength, Parity and Wholesome.
ness, ihe Royal Baking Powder
Stands Unsnrpassed.''

The following certificates from well-known
chemists and scientists form as strong an sr-
ray Of evidence as was ever given in behalf
Of any article of human food.
Prof. Edward G. Love, the government
chemist, saws:
81 have tested package of Royal Baking
Powder, which purch ased'in the open mar
ket, and find it composed Of pure and whole
some Ingredients. Il is : cream of tartar
powder of a high degree OF merit, and does
not contain either alum or phosphates, or
other injurious substances. E. LOVE"
Prof. Henry A. Not, government chemist,
says:
at is a ecientifo fact that the Royal Bak-
ing Powder Is absolutely pure. H.A MOTT"
Prof. Henry Morton, PRESIDENT Of Stevens
Institute of Technology, Gays:
Il have examined package OF Royal
Baking Powder, purchased by myself in the
market. 1 fnd il entirely free from alum,
terra alba or Other injurious substances
"HENRY MORTON"
Prof. S. Dana Hayes, State assayer of Mas.
sschuset;s, says:
Il have aualyzsd a package OF Royal
Baking Powder. The materials Of which il
is composed are pure aud wholesome.
~. DANA HAYES"
+. A. Genth, professor OF chemistry Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, says:
81 have made a careful examination OF
the Royal Baking Powder, and have found
it 10 be perfectly pure article. 1t is alto
gether wholesome, and free from adultera-
lion and injurious substances.
az A. GENTH"
Prof. F. L. Bartlett, asssyer and chemist
for the State Of Maine, says:
81 have examined a sample Of Royal Bak.
ing Powder, and fnd no injurious substances
nor any aduIterstion. The materials CON-
prising the powder are pure, and the proper.
lions quite accurate. F. L. BARTLETT"
The late james V. T. BIsusy & Son, analyt.
zeal chemists, OF Chicago, said:
"We have examined a sample OF Royal
Baking Powder, and find the same 10 be free
from any delsterious substances.
81. V. 2. BLANEY SON."
DR.. J. II. Wright and D.. Albert MerrelI
analytical chemists. late the firm OF Wright
& Merrel, ST. Loui-, each gay:
II have made careful analytical test oi
ROYAL Baking Powder, purchased by myself
in the open market here, and IN the original
package. / 6nd it to be q cream OF tartsr
powder Of the highest grade Of strength
containing nothing but pure, wholesome and
useful ingredients.
JUAN H. WRIGHT, MD.
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
tuesday,, MARCH 10. 1883
GEN. FITZHUGH LEE.

This talented gentleman, the nephew OF
the illustrious Robert E, Lee, reached Mem
phis yesterday at 10 o'clock, was met by the
committee selected for that purpose aud
escorted to the Peabody Hotel. Tonight he
will deliver bis celebrated lecture on "The
Battle of Charlottesville" al Leubrie's The
alter. Memphis contributed more than her
proportiOnte share of soldiers, blood and
treasure to the cause sanctifed BY time and
hsllowed by 80 many sacred memories, and
our people will no doubt show their apere-
citation of Gen. Lees mission by greeting
him TO night with large audience. The
object of the lecturer should command the
sympathies Of the Southern people.
He comes not for pecuniary gain
or any personal aggrandisenent, but to res-
cue from oblivion the vAlor Of the living
and the dead, and 10 transmit to history the
record OF people whose splendid achieve
ments are destined to add additional luster
to American renoWn. All that is left OF tie
Confederate cause is the Valor, the foriitude,
the suffering, the fidelity Of those whs ss-
poused it. 1t has made Southern soil
classic, and turn where we may, the scene oi
SONS zpIendid victory reminds US that the
children of the soldiers of Washington are
worthy u their sires. We would dishonor
tha mer Dry OF our great struggle for indie
pendenot If ne failed to make successful the
object which inspires Gen. Lees lecturiDg
tour. Ia every Southern town and city be
Lss L,sr. Ls.s.sa sulin@iafge -auefeheee
aud Memphis, situated in the heart oil
people u'- s-n'psthizsd with the struggle
for independence, should indicate by the au.
dience tonight that we still cherish in the
Psniheon of our hearts Of fictions an ardent
veneration for our heroes and the proud
record made by the devotion of united
people. Tne 500 Spartsns who fell at Their
mopyl@ have received as much honor by
posterity as the lesions of 100000 soldiers
that trampled them down, and the ragged
squad of brave Confederates who were over
whelmed by the Federal hosts will be as much
honored by posterity as their conquerors il
we are true to the mission which inspires
Gen. Lees lecture tonight. The fame q
Leonidas is equal to that OF Xerxes, and il
we are true to ourselves the name of Robert
E. Lee will shine in history with as much
brilliancy as that of U. S. Graut. Gen. Fiz
hugh Lee is giving his time and services L
the Historical Society, the object of which il
to gather the facts of history from those whe
made it, and to preserve them for the use
and benefit of the future historian, and w
hope the Theater will be crowded to night
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BRITISH BREADSTUFFs.
Trade slow and InADfmate at I'm.
changed Prices.

LONDON, March 1.-THE Marx Lane Er.
press, in it, review OF The British grain trade
for The pact week, says: "The weeks spell
Of wintry weather was beneficial 10 young
and weakly wheais, which, being coated with
snow, were protected. Supplies of wheat,
though cUrtsiled, are in a somewhat in
proved condition. Trade is slow and mani
mate, and prices unchanged. The foreign
trade ia tedious ard dragging; demand
small, supply moderate; rates slightly lower.
Five csrgo,s arrived. No ssles. Forward
trade is inaninste and weaker. Red winter
wheats, 81 lower. Flour dull and ker
foreign was also dull and weaker, with large
supply; prices ls lower. Barley and oais
unchanged. Maize weaker, in view Of the
prospect Of large supply. Sales OF English
wheat tee past week, 47,497 quarters at
AS Cd, against 32,054 quarters al 45s Sd, the
corresponding week last year"
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vRAN,E ANDIrs DANsEK.

There are few living problems OF more In
terest at the present moment than that eftr-
ed by the French republic. Will it stand?
Surrounded as it is with monarchiss, tinged
as its people are with traditions and inhu-
ences derived from centuries Of monarchisl
government, France appears TO be able to
dominate entirely these traditions and inhu-
euces when they are brought clearly into
issue. The worst dangers 10 which The
French republic is exposed arise from the
want of moral strength among the French
population. A republic leaves the eeHti'i
of the national ohairs IN the hands Of tie
people, and the more power the people pos-
sess the more necessary is it that they should
be actuated by principle, loving right and
seeking it, hunting evil and repudiatipg it.
Unfortunately, the kind OF Christianity that
has been set before the French has
had the effect of making a con-
siderable portion of the French people
reject Christianity. So far, and so high does
disregard of Christian claims exist in Frame
that man as high and as respected as Gam
BETA was buried without any Christian rite.
Cut loose from allegiance to the great teacher
OF morals, there is a portion OF the French
people who recognize no rule OF right, but
are ready, if they can attain the power, 10
repeat all the atrocities of the first French
revolution. Their orators that address them
at their drinking places now there are n)ne
of the sristocrats 10 Observation-Disclosures tie
middle class, all who live in good houses or
own property. They incite 10 assassination,
to incendiarism, 10 spoliation, and to mas.
sacre. very hell is seething beneath the
glitter of French civilization. Right, and
truth, and goodness, and generosity, all the
great virtues that purify aud ennoble lie,
are scorned as shams or sentimentslizsd into
absurdi,v. An impure and atheistic liIera-
tura has produced the worst effects upon
soc n sld among the Ignorant the conse-
uuerges o displayed in all the hideousness
of ayovei communism. The disciples and
leaders CT this dangerous class have been
giving much trouble in Paris the last few
weeks, sad a proposition to hold monster
meeting Of the asserters OF the mons.rous
tenets Of communism there the other day,
was too dangerous to be acquiesced in. The
government forbid aud put down the meet
ing. Here lies the weakness and danger Of
the French republic. Those who would turn
liberty to license, and freedom to anarchy,
compel republican government TO do the
very things that were 50 bitterly denounced
when done by the nouarchists. The priests
are watching, the monsrchists are awaiting
opportunity, the e1trsvsgsaces OF the COM
munists and the demsgogues are the pivot
on which they expect to work The lever of
royaItv
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miss BusxeiI's Complaint Against Mr..
Eek.

New YORK, March 12.-Mr. John d.
Townsend has drawn up Mics Russells com
plant for libel against Fox, Of the Police
Gazette and it has been served upon him.
The libel of which Miss Russell complains
was a rsgraph which is too gross and vulgsr
to reproduce here, butts import was that her
recent very severe illness was the consequence
of the birth of son. He Gays: 81 happen
to know that ker illness was of altogether a
different kind, for it was of so serious and
complicated a nature as to require the con-
| sultaticn of several physicians, and to cause
| considerable discussion among them regard
| ing il; hence | heard OF it. Mr.. Fox hss
| been, as he win find, grossly imposed upon
| by some malicious and designing person"
| Mics Russell in signing the complaint, which
is brief, gives her full name as "Heleu
Louise Leonard Braham" As is well known
| LILLIAN Russell" is merely nom de theatre ;
| ard Braham is the name of her husband who
| is brother of David Brsham, Harrigan 8
Harris leader and composer,