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Year: 1876

WE WILL, on the first of September,
issue our usual annual review Of the cot.
ton trade Of the city, together with q
resume Of the general market for the
year. The edition OF the APPEAL of
that date will be unusually large, offer.
ing facilities for advertisers such as in
other years they have not hesitated to
avail themselves Of. In order 10 facili-
tate US in our efforts to cater for the pub
lie acceptably, and creditabIy to our
selves, We remind our friends thus early
and solicit continuance Of the gener-
ous support which for thirty-six years
the people Of Memphis have extended
10 the APPEAL. Orders fer papers and
advertisements will be received up to
the lsst day of this month at our count
ing-YOOm.
Year: 1876

AT THIS tune OF the year money is
generally slight" in Madison street, and
keeps tightening until tire arrival and
sale Of new c9tton relieves the strain.
This season the contrary is the case. A
month ago we had twenty-five thousand
bales Of cotton in store; to-day we have
less than ten thousand. This reduction
of stock has so increased cur monetary
resources that scme Of the banks have
more cash in .heir vaults 10 day than
they had month age. Monetary men
in New York express the opiRion that
owing to excess Of guppiy-when the
sharp December demand for money
comes it Sillbe plentiful at i've per cent.
Year: 1876

scribe the condition of our metallic currency IN lS'"
The effect Of the act would not be as the advocates
of the Silver bill assert to utilize both metals ana
give us an abundant specie circulation, but simply
to substitute silver coin for gold coin wherever gold
coin is now used, and to drive the gold into the
meltIng-pot or ont of the country. This was the
effect prior to 1884, when the difference between
the mint ratio of silver to gold and the market ratio
was less than one-fourh great as it would he now
if the act of 1873 to be repealed and the profit
on the exportation of gold was proportonately less.


have said that silver actually demonetized
by the act of 1884 rather than by the act of 1878.
and that the latter simply recognized state OF af-
fairs already existing. The market ratio of the
value of silver to that of gold when the act of 1874
was passed one to fifteen and seven-tcnths. This
ratio had been declining gradually for 4pye"rS ana
American political economists of that day supposed
that the decline would continue. They therefore
determined to fix the mint ratio of the value OF
silver to that of gold at 10 sixteen, believing
that the market ratio would remain so near that
point make it possible for gold and silver TO
circulate side by side. But they were mistaken.
The market ratio did not change materially between
1884 and 1918, and was always sufficiently above
the mint ratio to make the expectation Of silver
profitable. In 1915 the discovery Of gold III Cali
fornia caused the value of the metal TO decline and
the market ratio of the value Of silver to that of
gold to rise very rapidly. From 1884 TO August,
1873 six months after tie Coinage act of that year
which deprived silver Of its icgal-tender property,
the market ratio never went as low as the mint
ratio and therefore there 40 day during that
whole time that silver formed any part OF the me
tallic circulation of this country or that debt
could have been paid in it without loss TO the one
who paid it,. In other words silver was Just rs
much demonetlzed BY the act OF 1851 rs 1t Is to-day


Il. l.. ".
Year: 1876

A SUGGESTION TO MAKE AN APPRo-


PIRATE DISPLAY AT HORTICULTURAL


HALL.


Monday evening the Central Della
ware Fruit Growers Association will
hold meeting at Milford to discuss
the suggestion recently made that the
association should engage space in the
horticultural department of the Cen
tennial Building, for displaying Della,
ware fruit-especially that produced
in this locality. Central Delaware).-
By proper action In this matter, the
Milford Neaos says, our various fruits,
in their respective seasons, can be kept
on exhibition throughout the period
of the exposition. 1t will cost scarce
ly anything in time or money to do
this, and we hope the Association will
take measures Immediately to secure
the result. Mr.. John W. Causey il
Chairman Of the Committee on Fruits
and will give our Association every
possible facility for its display, pro
vided the space is applied for in time
1t must be done within few days.
Year: 1876

When Archimedts was asked If he could
find out whether the jewellers had, in
making the crown, kept back some OF
the gold and supplied its weight with
some other metal, The philosopher was
put 10 thinking and experimenting: and
one day he exclaimed with excited energy
Eureka Elreka!' q have found It /!
| have found it y


What had he found? He had discovered
that any solid body. put into a vessel OF
water dispaces its own bulk Of water;
and, therefore, if the sides OF the vessel
are high enough, TO prevent it running
over. the water will rise to a certain
height. lie now got one ball OF gold and
another OF silver, each weighing exactly
the same as The crown. Of course the
balls were not the same size, because sill
yer is lighter than gold, so it takes more
of il to make the same weight. lie first
put the gold into basin OF water. and
marked on the side Of the vessel the height
to which the water rose. Next, taking
out the gold, he put in the silver ball,
which, though it weighed the same, yet.
being larger, made the water rise higher;
and this height he also marked. Lastly
he took ont the silver ball and put in tho
crown. Now if the crown had been pure
gold, tho water would have risen only up
to the mark oil the gold ball; but it rose
higher, and stood between the gold and
silver mark. showing that silver had been
mixed with il, making il moro bulky
This was the first attempt 10 measure the
specific gravity of different substances.
Year: 1876

Why is it that men dart out OF prayer
meeting as soon as the benediction is
pronounced? The true idea of the church
is that it is family-God's family. Its
members brothers and sisters one OF an
other. A prayer-meet;ng, therefore. is a
family meeting. After the formal portion
OF the service Is over, brethren, why not
stay and have an informal service of your
own? Tell your Joys and your sorrows,
your hopes and your fears, one to another.
Laugh with those who laugh and weep
with those who weep" Don't file out OF
the room soemnly as crows fly to the
grove at night, passing through gloom
into deeper gloom; but 60 forth happy
as children pour out Of the door when
father and mother start out with them
for ramble in the bright sunshine across
the green fields. At least, stay long
enough TO shake hands with the pastor
and with each other, and greet any stran-
ger who may have chanced to drop in
among you-GOlien Rule.
Year: 1876

For Catarrh, use Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil freely on the forehead and nose externally, also inhale the strong odor, of the Magic Oil from cloth. Mix the Mag ic:Ol1 with water rand gargle the throat. Try this three times day for few days; it don't cost much, A prominent person who has tried this in a very aggravated case, says, within two weeks every vestige of catarrh had left me.
Year: 1876

Recent news seems to indicate 8 real collapse of CarlIsm. It never had any chance of success as 6 national movement and with its defeat poor old Spain has one nuisance the less.

 The passage of a bill by the Senate au- thOrizing 90 year 4 per. cent. national bond is an important move toward the re- ductiOn of the burden of interest now bearing 90 heavily on our people. Mir. Sherman is confident that five hundred millions in such bonds could be disposed of at paE wal
Year: 1876

The aequittal Of Gen. Babcock took most by surprise People had expected a disagreement or possibly a conviction. The jury came to their conclusion, it is said, without any discussion, being unan- inOas from tho beginning. Still there are very disagreeable features about his case. and people would be glad to see him retire from his position as the Presidents snernkarr
Year: 1876




In the Congress yesterday the Government
was asked whether It had been informed that England
intended to address observations TO it respecting the a
pcation Of the Religious ToleratiOn Clause Of the
Constitution The Munster OF Foreign Affairs replied
that he had such information; but any foreign gov
pcatIon OF the Constitution, spain, IN dealing with such
interference would follow the dictate OF national honor
me Hon Mr. Bourke OF the British Foreign Department,
in the house OF Commons, when he declared that the
British Government would not fail 10 use IFS exertions IN
favor of religious freedom If IL should be threatened By
an illiberal Interpretation OF the federation Clause
Year: 1876

stands upon its merits, and kindly in
vites all acquisitions that may come
from whatever quarter, provided they
come in good faith, and while we in
vite all to join us who see fit to come
into our fold, we can but believe that,
as the correspondent remarks, the del
egation from this coast will have no
little influence in aiding in the ar
langement of the Presidential cam
paign. The Democracy stands upon
its ancient principles as foundation
for future operations; and yet, while it
believes in the old established rules, it
extends the olive branch to all
who may, like the prodigal
son, desire to return to the fold.
The indications from every quarter
are that the Democracy throughout
this State will not only receive large
acquisitions from the Republicans,
out that we shall carry the State by
as large a majority at least as the plu-
rality given to Governor IRWIN. From
the East we have as encouraging
news from every quarter, and if a
proper line of conduct of the campaign
is adopted there cannot be doubt of
the success of our party. We know of
no special elements of discord in our
organization in this State, and do not
propose to borrow trouble. We sim
ply suggest, as the correspondent re-
marks, that harmony is essential to
the success of the party. Intimations
of either real or supposed causes for a
lack of harmony are unwise, and, We
think, wholly uncalled for.
Year: 1876

In the San Francisco Examiner we
find communication from San Ber-
nardino, in which are contained some
good suggestions concerning the
method of arranging the coming cam


paign, and expressing the hope that
the Convention that will meet on
Wednesday will not ignore its duty,
but assert emphatically the policy
and principles which the party propo-
ses to adopt, and upon which it in
tends to conduct its career in the fu.
ture, and remarks that, 1.-THE expert
ence of the last twelve years ought
surely to teach US something in this
matter, and its lessons are, that any


attempt at compromise with error, or
bartering of principles for policy is su-
icide." All of this is true, and anoth
er suggestion is applicable,-that it is
more important to unite the Demo-
Gratis than to seek Reinforcement from
the Republicans. The Democracy is
conservative in every sense of the
term. 1t does not propose to adopt a
system of proselyting, nor is any such
effort necessity. The original prin-
ciples of the party are imperishable,
yet we do know that there is con-
servative element In the Republican
party that must naturally drift to the
Democracy. This class needspo coax
ing nor urging, and they are welcome
when they come. The Democracy
Year: 1876

Governor Tilden will perpetrate a great
blunder if, as his friends give out, he de-
cides that he will not send another name to
the Senate, now that it has rejected his nomi-
nation of Mr.. Schuyler to the Office of Canal
Auditor He could Justify himself only by a
quibbling technicality which violates the
whole spirit of the law. 1t is the plain in
tent of the statute that the person holding
the Office of Canal Auditor shall be the
Senate. the Governor being authorized to fill
vacancies only during the interval between
the happening of the vacancy and the meet
ing of the Senate. That Mr. Schuyler is not
entitled to hold over by his appointment to
fill a vacancy is acknowledged by the Gov
ernor himself in the fact of his nominating
him to the Senate. 1t is his clear duty TO
proceed as he would in the case of an original
appointment, and send in second name
when his first choice is rejected.


The technicalities on which refusal to do
so is attempted to be justified will not bear
moment s examination The Governors sup
porters quote this section of the constitu-
ton :-"When the duration of any Office is not
provided for by this constitution it may be
declared by law, and if not so declared such
Office shall be held during the pleasure Of
the authority making such appointment. ;"
The last clause of this section, which is the
one relied on, is utterly irrelevant because
the term of Office of the Canal Auditor is
declared by law, which precludes him from
holding ''during the pleasure of the ap-
pointing power"


There is statute which gives q more
plausible color for the non-action of the Gov
ernor, but it is merely specious, and will fade
as soon as it is looked at In the act creating
the Office its duration is declared to be three
wears ''and until his successor shall in like
manner have been appointed. The plain
purpose of this provision is to bridge over
the interval between the 1st of January and
the confirmation by the Senate Of an ap-
pointed successor. If Auditor Thayer had
not been suspended and his term had ex.
pired on the 1st of January the Governor
would have had precisely thesame right and
no more right, to keep him in Office by re
4 ftlsing TO send another name after the Senate
had rejected his frst nomination that he ha'
| to pursue the same tactics in favor Of MIR
Year: 1876

votes will be given TO the democratic candi-
date But although the Southern delega-
tions 10 Cincinnati will represent no cleo
toral votes. they will be just as efficient in
the Convention as if they could contribute
to the election of the candidate whose nom
ination they may control


OF course it is for the interest of Mr..
Blaine and his supporters to strip the
Southern delegates of their influence and
give them back seats. But unless they are
shut out of the Convention by the success
of contesting delegates there is no obvious
way to deprive them of the inhu-
ence to which they are entitled by
their numbers 1t is quite true, in
deed, that our national political con-
ventions are inequitably and absurdly con-
stituted. There is no fairness in permitting
the States in which the party is in a minority
to turn the scale in favor of candidate
whom their constituents can do nothing to
elect. In this respect the old exploded Con-
gressional caucuses of fifty years ago were
more equitably constituted than the national
conventions which have succeeded them.
Each member of Congress who participated in
caucus for nominating Presidential can
didate had constituency of his own party
behind him, his credentials consisting in
the fact of his election. The nominations
were made by men who represented votes !.
but those caucuses were nevertheless such
hotbeds of intrigue that they sunk under
public odium and were abolished. But, un-
fair as the system is which succeeded them,
the delegates who represent no electoral vote
cannot have their influence curtailed so long
as the system lasts. All the delegates to
national convention stand ON an equal foot
ing and have precisely the same rights.
There is no way of making the republican
delegates from the South take back seats at
Cincinnati after they are once admitted to
the Convention. A hundred delegates from
the South will be just as fully entitled to
their preference and have the same right to
urge it as any hundred delegates from States
in which the republicans are a majority.
This is the common law of such conventions,
which Mr. Blaine and his friends will be
compelled to accept, however little they may
like it. Their only chance of nullifying the
Southern vote at Cincinnati lies in the sue
cess of their masked project for creating
new republican organization in the South to
serve as a mill for grinding out contesting
delegations. We doubt if even the most con-
summate political dexterity can make such
project succeed against the official patronage
of General Grant the shrewd activity and
vigor of Senator Morton and the rooted in
huence of both among the Southern repub-
licans
Year: 1876

The Associated Press despatch from Lon
ton that writs have been served on General
Schenck, the American Minister, and other
persons prominently connected with the
Emma Mine Company, is too vague and
blind to convey any precise information.
1t can hardly mean that General Schenck
has been summoned as witness to tes-
tify in the case, because writ is
not the form of proceeding which
is adopted in summoning witnesses.
Moreover the other persons included in the
writ stand in the relation of parties or de-
PENDANTS, and writ issued against Albert
Grant and including General Schenck must
regard him as party and not as a witness.
He is of course protected by his dip
lomatic privilege if he chooses to
avail himself of it; but he could
hardly afford to do this, since it would
imply that he has no good defence, and dares
not go into Court and confront the accusa-
ton. 1t is to be presumed that he will
waive his diplomatic privilege, and trust that
the same explanations which satisfied Presi-
dent Grant, Secretary Fish and Mr.. Reverdy
johnson will suffice to clear his honor in an
English court of justice


Let us hope that this is not too confident
an estimate. Indiscreet Mr.. Schenck has
undoubtedly been, but his countrymen
should be slow to believe that he has been
dishonest. That he was conscious instru-
ment of deception and fraud is Incredible
He was no doubt convinced by the
schemers who made tool of him that the
Emma Mine was the rich bonanza which
they represented it to be. 1t is charitable,
nay, it is just, to assume that he is victim
to be pitied, and not criminal to be pun
ished. He was inexcusably, fearfully indis-
Greet, and his example should serve as
warning to persons in public stations. But
that he was a knowing accomplice in gigan-
tic swindle cannot be credited without at the
same time inculpating the President and
Secretary Fish, who have no known reason
for shielding General Schenck unless they
think him innocent and too deep stake in
the honor of the government to retain him
in Office if guilty. We therefore trust that
it is safe and wise for Mr. Schenck to waive
his diplomatic privilege and meet his ac-
cusers with the confident air of an honest
though credulous man
Year: 1876

HELP FOR BosToN. Evidently another fast
mail train is wanted-for the encouragement
and enlightenment of the cities of the East.
In another column q communication signed
Reader" details the grievances of the intel
ligent people of Boston with regard to the
newspapers of this city for which they
banker These papers arrive at half-past
four to FIVE p. III. at the Boston Post Office,
and lie in the merchants downtown boxes
till next morning Some improvements in
the administration of the Boston Post Office
would therefore give them q partial remedy.
But fast mail train in that direction
hitherto unexplored by this great agent Of
modern civilization-ist the real requirement
Boston should have the New York papers by
ten A. M. every day, or at the latest minute
by noon Leaving this city at four A. M.
the train would reach Springfield, Mass, at
seven, and there connect with the quarter
past seven train from Boston. All New Eng
land could have the papers before night,
greatly to the advantage of the people (; for
there is not q first rate newspaper printed
between the Harlem River and the Banks
of Newfoundland
Year: 1876

communication in another column re-
lates pitiful story, which will. we suspect.
create good deal of indignation through
the country, and not unjustly 1t seems
that in the Post Office attached to the House
of Representatives there we're employed a
number of Union soldiers, all but one, as is
shown in the list, disabled, which means,
duties of life 1t was not only q
humane, but an eminently proper, act
to give these poor fellows the petty
places they held, and they ought never to
have been allowed to fear removal from them.


Such support for their declining years they
have right to claim. But it seems the
democratic majority of the House has made
haste to remove them all, and to fill their
places with men who, according to the kind
of oath they were obliged to take, served
against the Union. We warn the democrats
that they will excite just indignation and re-
sentiment by such course. The HERALD, as
is very well known to all its readers, has,


in every way and constantly discouraged
sectional bitterness or any revival of the war
feeling What the country wants is har-
mony and good feeling. But it is impossible
to get these unless both parties show good
sense, and the democrats ought certainly to
pay respect to the claims of the poor fellows
who were disabled in the service of the
Union. We should be glad to see the lead
ing democrats in the House take immediate
measures to restore every disabled soldier in
the list which has been sent us to the place
from which he has been expelled. They
cannot succeed on any narrow policy, and
they will be held responsible in this matter.
Year: 1876

THE PEACE PARTY IN AUSTRIA aims vaguely
at European disarmament if we may judge
of the imperial forces and to engage an in
ternational congress to discuss the matter
further. 1t is too soon. The bayonets have
not vet drunk blood enough.
Year: 1876

How THE ARMY EXPENSES can be reduced
without reducing the fighting force Of the
army is examined in Washington letter in
another part of the HERALD. Judicious
economy is one thing, but simply chopping
off SO much of the force to cut down so much
expense is an absurdty.
Year: 1876

BAVARIA has been warned from Berlin not
TO exempt priests and ecclesiastical students
full military uniform is among the luxuries
which the profane look forward to, and we
do not wonder that the Ultramontanes are
looking for a compromise on the Falk laws.
Year: 1876

THE FINE ART OF BURGLARY was exempli-
fed in the Northampton Bank robbery.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars reward should
stimulate the police to match their skill
against these daring thieves
Year: 1876

Apparently it is believed in the Direct
Cable Company that their cable, which has
been repeatedly broken by violence, has also
been broken by design, and that the gain of
the persons who have originated this nefari-
Gus practice is to be secured by the conse-
quent rise in value of the shares of the
Anglo-American Company. Every one is
very apt to reason that any fact which regu-
larly follows another is therefore the conse-
quence Of that other, and excited men who
see spectators making money out Of their
calamity would be more than human if they
failed to conceive that such spectators
might be the cause of the calamity. Per-
haps, therefore, the charges made may have
only this origin; but the case seems suscep-
of the Direct Cable Company knows that
certain men have had knowledge of the
calamities that were to befall them before the
calamities came they must know who these
men are. and it would seem worth while to
try whether good detective could not con-
meet these persons with the fact of this great
depreciation. 1t requires a number of con-
federate villains 10 practise such an outrage,
and it is scarcely possible but some one vii
lain would betray the Others if closely
pushed No one doubts the possibility of
the fact limited at by Mr.. Lushington. The
money to be made by change in prices Of
any important stock is sufficient tempta-
ton; and where the property upon which
ths value of shares depends is within reach
so easy method OF affecting prices as the
damaging of that property will commend
itself to many persons; and the financial
morality of the age is no guarantee against
it. But there would be also very great
variation in prices if the spectators should
break the cables of the Anglo-American Com.
pany; and yet they do not do that. If al
the other cables were broken, and the world
left to the cable Of the Direct Company, the
price of its shares would go up enormously
and if such depreciation should ever b
committed there will be good reason to be
lieve that Mr. Aishington's charge is JUST
fed