The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-23
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL--TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2s 1886

publication Of the book. The time oil
publication is set for May. The ad.
miral is now in his seventy-thirl
year, but as vigorous as many OF the
| young men Of the service. Citing q
very ancient authority, CHS eyes are
not dimmed nor his natural force
abated;" and even some OF the scant-
Uncovered heads of the fresh ensigns
hold a feeling somewhat like envy as
| he shows a full shock of chestnut
hair, hardly flecked with gray. He
wrote 10 his publishers not many days
ago that he would complete his naval
history long before the printers could
catch up with him.
o. o. HALL, who started the Gin
cinnati Graphic two years ago, has
been arrested on a charge of embezzle-
ment preferred by c. s. Bragg, his
partner, who invested 100000 in the
plant of that paper. The latter has
brought suit for a dissolution of the
partnership, in which Hall has only a
nominal interest, and received q salary
of S75 a month and a share of the
profits. Bragg claims that his loss
will amount TO several hundred thous-
and dollars. Hall was caught by
means of a decoy letter. He is
young fellow of thirty-three years,
who originated the dramatic festival,
and was its secretary. He claims to
be relative of Gladstone, though
born in Louisiana, and signs his name
in albums as Otis Orlando Lewis Glad
stone Hall. His father was a national
banker, and his mother and sisters
reside in Paris. He spent ten years
in English colleges, and has been en-
ployed on newspapers in st. Louis,
San Francisco and elsewhere. He
denies his guilt.
The. Western and Atlantic railroad
of Georgia has issued in very attract
i've form and beautifully illustrated
the Mountain Campaigns an Georgia; or
Var Scenes on The Western and atlantic.
The narrative is compiled from the
best sources and the illustrations are
from such artists as Waud. Gen.
"Joe" Johnston says of it: 81 have
seen no publication relating to the
war so attractive in style and appear
ance." And Gen. W. T. Sherman
takes great pleasure in compliment
ing you on having made so condensed
and valuable a souvenir of the old
State railroad from Chattanooga to
Atlanta. The maps are admirable, the
illustrations are characteristic, and the
text as near the truth as can be com
pressed in so small a space. | am
willing to indorse what you record
that the Atlanta campaign of 1864
would have been impossible without
this road; that all our battles were
fought for its possession, and that the
Western and Atlantic railroad of
Georgia should be the pride of every
true American" because. "by reason
of its existence the Union was saved"
Mr.. THOMAS ]. GIRARDEAU, a South
erner of the old type and literary
man of taste, skill and ability, read
Uncle Toms Cabin the other day for |
the first time, and confesses that be- |
fore he did so "it angered him to hear |
the prepOsterous praises heaped on
the book. When certain admirers |
talked of similitudes to Shakespeare
and the Bible / failed to dissemble my |
utter disgust. When twitted with CON
demning and contemning what was
ignorant OF, replied that it was not
necessary to read the Book of Mormon
to pronounce Joe Smith fool, nor
the Age of Reason to discover what the
babble of the world had abundantly
revealed-that Tom Paine was an
atheist and a radical" Well Mr..
read and he was conquered,
and he writes; "Let the political
features go. Doubtless the book did
the work of a million men in bringing
on the conflict and in freeing the
slaves. We are thankful it is all over
and not even an active imagination
may picture now Legree or the woes
Of Thomas "a Kempis in ebony. We
try to forget and forgive the cruel i'm
possibilities of the tale, knowing what
we know and seeing what we see; we
forgive the grossness of the caricature
rs regards its facial features, when
we feel the honest beat of loving
heart beneath all, and listen to the
gospel of faithin God and good will to
nan. Uncle TOMS Cabin will live and
De read centuries hence, in all proba-
Oility; not as veritable history, for
such it is not; not as gallery of por-
rats in ink, though "St. Clair" and
his wife, "Aunt Ophelia" and "Topsy"
ire creations of original value not as
rhetorical special plea, high-wrought,
and impassioned in its very
VI no, not for any of these
Kings, but it will live and be read
With tears and deep conviction be-
'ause it is an evangel of love. But
lot even an evangel of love could fly
o the heart so quickly and with such
power were it not winged
With the airs of genius. There is
ype of genius which, though it may
lot reach to even the second round of
he immortal seats, is yet as genuine
$ that of the master who sits at the
Iead in his peaked beard and ear
ings. The genius of the sentiment
nd of the spiritual nature may be at
ines commonplace, but it moves
many more hearts and influences
lore lives than do the princes of
reation and fancy. Montgomery,
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