The Daily Memphis Avalanche from Memphis, Tennessee • 2

TENNIE CLAIM LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE HAYES President took the chair After the i transaction of some preliminary business the acceptance of the resignations I of Messrs Britton and Robinson and making them honorary members of the Association the Association took a 1 recess MEMPHIS WEDNESDAY MAY 10 77 BE8CMK Maximum amount of bonds which can be used to construct and equip the mainline branches and extensions Main Trunk line 1187 miles not to exceed (35000 per $41645000 Han Diego connection 100 miles not to exceed $30000 per mne 3000000 $44545000 Connecting lines on the east 1018 miles not to exceed $25000 per mile 25450000 COTTON SEED COTTON SEEK HOVE OIL MILL JOHNSON CO No 4 Court St Memphis THIS Mill recently started at Memphis Is not connected with the Cotton Heed Association and request planters and merchants should order sacks directly lrom us assuring highest prices HALLER Secretary ap29-lm for the Internal At Philadelphia the other day Sam Randall actually sat on the same platform with President Hayes thus him as President Admiral Whitthorno should form himself into an indignation meeting and denounce the lion Sam for this shocking aban donment of principle Total $69995030 THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OP INTEREST FOR WHICH THE GOVERNMENT IS LIABLE Interest on $14515000 on Main Trunk line at 5 per cent per annum lnclud- log Han Diego connection $2227250 Interest on $25450000 for eastern con-nectlons at 5 per cent par annum 1272500 RESTAURANT OVERTON RESTAURANT And Lunch Room FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN By MISS SWEET No 31 Madison Street Meals and Lunch stall hours pedal terms to Regular Day Boarders fe24 Our readers cannot too thoroughly understand the provisions of the Texas Pacific railroad kill which will be presented to the next Congress An ab stract Is again printed to-day This is the that the followers of Tammany Hall in and out of the South occasionally allude to in the hope of preventing the completion ot the road cl William out on other evils grown up since he roamed with old Romulus socked with old Socrates and canted with old Cantharides On every hand at every turn one encounters innovations on ancient practices unknown to the early years of the ODly man now living old enough to improvise a reception for the late respected Adam when that distinguished carpet bagger entered on his duties as President of (he garden cl Eden There the telegraph there is the application of steam to machinery which ushered in railway and steamboat explosions there is the palace sleeping car which encourages laziness and there ate Eli Perkins George Francis Train Private Dalzell the prize package boy and the lightning rod agent All these be gigantic evils to which our ancient Riseup and the Druid3 and their boon companions who were venerable when Moses was a hoy were strangers Uncle eyes never rested on one of these monster evils until several centuries after he finished the Pyramids Had he believed they would ever exist he would have declined to build the Ark and permitted his young friend Noah to go down the devil and the deep and take his chances in the flood We do not doubt no one can doubt that if properly approached Riseup William would have poured a stream of honest indignation upon each of those evils to which that turned on Internal Improvements (especially for the South) would have been as a mere rivulet The interviewer should sharpen his pencil whirl his lassoo and try again SALE Senator Christianoy characterizes the terms and as abstract and as metaphysical He Is correct They no longer amount to anything except partisan rallying cries In a partisan political sense what else does or mean? What set of princi pies or issues is meant by either term Both have become designa AN OLD MIBSIS8IPPIAN ON AND THE SOUTH Gbbnada Miss May 14 1877 Editor A feeling that no doubt you have better matter with which to fill your columns has considerably checked my desire to thrust upon your readers my cogitations Nevertheless we must think and a love of truth begets a desire to propagate truth There is a paper published in Memphis called the Appeal Its politics are not exactly to my taste Every day we have detractive diatribes about Hayes and Key and Waldro i I was taught in early life to feel that it Is a duty to honor rulers and all superiors I think it would be an excellent thing to have more of that kind of teaching now Our youth are scarcely taught to respect anybody There is too little regard for authority human or divine If we bring about a true reform we must attend to the lower strata of society as well as to the upper I cannot see the propriety the decency or the wholesome influence of perpetually calling Mr Hayes bad names when we cannot see the bad things be is doing Mr Key is a gentleman of known integrity I know nothing he has done that can afford the slightest pretext for the maledictions He is rendering good service in an important station He was advised by leading Democrats of Tennessee to accept the office Why denounce him? Oh! he Is seeking to divide the Democratic party! Well now really I do think that if doing exactly what is right and honorable divides the Democratic party then it ought to be divided In an humble wav I have acted uniformly with the Democratic party for more than thirty years If the old party will do what is right I will continue to act with the same party But being ju9t and free I cannot approve the wholesale denunciations of honorable men for doing those things we desire to have done and which our interests imperatively demand By our intolerance we drive good men from us Let justice be done though the heavens should fall Let not any supposed necessity for preserving the integrity of Democracy betray us into very nauseating improprieties of speech I do not think the Appeal has clearly shown Mr responsibility for thenor-mous frauds of the Returning Board or that when declared elected by the 8 to 7 Commission which the Democrats made and pledged fealty to it was his duty to decline an inauguration I do hot think the Appeal has shown that Mr Tilden would have done any better than Mr Hayes has done Let us study the interest of the country and things that make for peace Amzi Total annual Interest $3499750 This annual interest is the utmost extent of the liability of the Government and the Government is protected from loss as follows: First By the total land grant State and National say 30000000 of acres Second Railroad lines 2305 miles Third Rolling stock and all other property appertaining to the companies Fourth Annual earnings of the roads and telegraph lines from both the Government aud private business Fifth Bonds of the companies at the rate of $5000 per mile remaining in the Treasury of the United States say $11500- Should the net earnings on the 2305 miles of line proposed to be constructed amount to but $1500 per mile per annum it would be sufficient to pay the annual interest on the bonds The last annual report of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company on file with the Secretary of the Interior will show that that company for the year ending June 1876 made a net earning of over $2000 per mile without any western connections The last reports of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad Companies show an average net earning per mile per annum of $7388 nearly five times the amount necessary to pay the interest upon the bonds proposed to be guaranteed by the bill Congress retains the right to regulate and control rates of fare and freight The bill gives to all connecting roads willing to reciprocate the same terms as are charged for business of the lines proposed to be constructed It gives all connecting lines or branches the right to establish agencies upon the main line and to make their consignments over any one of the branches or connections and no discriminations can be made against them either in rates or as to the place of consignment HA 5fc6TtV ha' LK UF 'bToC it'or'Go'oDH' Uliancery Court of Shelby County No 2594 Rachael Abrahams vs Alex Abrahams By virtue of an Interlocutory decree for sale entered in the above cause on the 10th dav of May 1877 I will sell at public autlon to the highest bidder at store No 43 Beal street Memphis Tennessee on THURSDAY May 171677 within legal hours the following described properly to-wit: All the stock of Goods Wares Merchandise Fixtures tc iu store room No 43 Beal street Memphis Tennessee Said stock consists of Clothing Furnishing Goods Ac Terms of sale Cash This May 121877 EDMUND A COLE Clerk and Master By Black and 1 Robertson Holicltor uvl2 ply with its terms or provisions so as to have a continuous railroad communication with San Diego and San Francisco from the point of junction in New Mexico then the Texas and Pacific Railway Company shall have the right without further legislation or judicial action to complete the line from its western terminus direct to San Diego and to become vested with all the rights powers and grants made to the Southern Pacific That if the Texas and Pacific Company shall fail within three months to accept the provisions of the act or having accepted fail to complete its part of the line then the Southern Pacific Railroad Company shall have the right without further legislation or judicial action to complete the line and shall become vested with all the powers and privileges granted to the Texas and Pacific Railway Company The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company is authorized to construct its line from Vinita to a connection with the Texas and Pacific road at a point not further north than the 33d parallel of north latitude and between the 99th and 100th de gree of longitude and all rights and grants to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company heretofore made shall be renounced except so far as may be necessary to complete its line to the said point of junction Section 2 guarantees to all connecting lines perfect equality and protects them against discrimination in charges secures to the public the advantages of a through line with through bills of lading and passenger tickets requiring such connecting lines to reciprocate these privileges and providing a remedy in the United States Circuit Court tor any violation of the provisions of the act Section 3 provides that the Texas and Pacific Railway Company may execute bonds to the extent of $40000 per mile of road to be constructed payable in gold fifty years after their date bearing interest at the rate of five per cent per annum in gold coin That the Southern Pacific may execute its bonds at the same rate and of similar character and description lor that part of its line from Fort Yuma to the point of junction in New Mexico and at the rate of $35000 per mile for its San Diego connection Payment of the interest on these bonds to be guaranteed by the United Stales but the Government not to be responsible for any part of the principal Section 4 provides that when anv of the said companies authorized to build either the main line or the extensions shall certify that ten or more consecutive miles of its line are constructed and equip- the President of the United tates shall require commissioners not exceeding three in number to be appointed by him to examine the section and report whether it is constructed according to the Government standard and also the actual cost of such construction and equipment and certify the same under oath And if it appear to the President from their report that such section has been constructed and equipped according to law he shall so certify to the Secretary of the Treasury whoso duty it shall be to deliver to said company either the guaran-te 1 bonds or the proceeds thereof not exceeding the actual average cost per mile of construction to-wit: To the Texas and Pacific Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company respectively on their lines lrom Fort Worth to the Colorado river not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars per mile and to the Southorn Pacific Railroad Company for the San Diego connection not exceeding thirty thousand dollars per mile To the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and the eastern connections to the Mississippi river to each not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars per mile but shall retain of the bonds of each one of the companies five thousand dollars per mile to be held in the Treasury for the purposes provided in another section of the bill The bonds may be sold to meet the cost of construction but the proceeds to be retained in the Treasnry of the until needed but in the meantime to be invested in United States bonds or held at interest at the rate of four per centum per annum at the option of the Government It prohibits the use of the guaranteed bonds in any way by the companies beyond the actual cost of construction and equipment The balance of the bonds not required to pay actual cost ot construction to be retained in the treasury of the United States and never issued unless after the completion of the road they may be needed to meet the increased demands of com- champagne: Here is the latest from the Shelby-ville (Tenn) Commercial It ia evident that Key has gone over soul and body (politically) to Ilia Kraudulency Returning Hoard Ilayes who is now acting as President of these United (States of America This seems to approach the standard It rather lays over any of the choice gems thus far furnished the world by the Appeal the Brownsville Greeley Bedamor the Batesville Whoopemup Thoy must look to their liurels The ShelbyvIIIe man wields a powerful claymore There Is blood in his eye Piper -Heidsieck LIST OF CHAMPAGNES Imported into the United States Why she Wants to Bulldoze 0' Vanderbilt out of Cin Com Special New York May The Times to morrow will print the following: Among Mr Wm recent annoyances has been the presentation of a claim by Tennie Claflin upon Commodore estate for an indefinite amount stated at over one hundred thousand dollars or in other words seventy thousand dollars and compound interest The paper recites that in the fall of 1871 she called upon Commodore Vanderbilt at his office in Fourth street and gave him $10000 to operate with in New York Central and Hudson River and other railroad stocks and securities as she had done before She asked him to keep the money and whatever accumulations might accrue for her until called for In the spring of 1873 when she was sorely pressed for money she sent her sister Mrs Miles for a portion of the amount He replied that he had promised her mother who had besought him on her knees that be would not let the money go out of his hands until it went to purchase her a home which should be as fine as any in the city He added that the original sum and its accumulations then amounted to $70000 borne time in the Autumn of 1874 Miss Claflin in company with Mrs Wopdhull called on the Commodore also at other times for the purpose of getting some of the money He refused to give them any saying they were in such circumstances he did not believe they would use it judiciously and he thought the best thing he could do was to keep it until they were out of their difficulties and had a better appreciation of the value of money and until it amounted to such a sum that it would be a sure reliance for them Having full confidence in his good intentions and in his superior wisdom and judgment they allowed him to retain it Mis Claflin was unable to say to what extent the accumulations had grown hut she thought to reach $100000 From what the Commodore had said to her during his lifetime they should vastly exceed that sum She left it to MrWm' generosity to say what excess should be paid her Mrs Woodhull and Miss Claflin said that the Commodore started them in business and funished them with his checks to carry it out He acted as their banker for years having large amounts of their money in his hands continually in trust or for investment They made his acquaintance in 1858 and he took a fatherly interest in them ever since treating them Miss Claflin added too much like children Understand said Miss Claflin that Mr Van derbilt has never denied the justice ol the claim but he hopes to force mo to accept auythiog he chooses to give knowing that I am poor A man with his money is well able to settle any time and I consider it a shame that we have been compelled to wait but you be surprised at his cours? when I tell you that in paying his sisters their legacies he cut off and kept the coupons which were within a day or two of falling due We have been prevented from going to Europe said Mrs Woodhull We have the papers ready to sign for over six months by which we would have been enjoying a profitable series of lecture engagements on the other side We have lost over one hundred thousand dollars by the delay already If I had taken mv $10000 and interest said Miss Claflin it would have been paid long ago but Mr Vanderbilt will have to pay eventually I have too much proof I have over one hundred witnesses Why Commodore Vanderbilt himself testified before Jndge McAdams in 1874 that he had then an open account with us If I were to tell you all 1 know it would be worse a great deal than the Beecher case would make a splendid sensational article for the said Mrs Woodhull we gave you the reasons why Commodore Vanderbilt took such an interest in a paper that expressed the ruost radical of radical views but our lips are Mr Vanderbilt on being questioned in regard to the suit on board the Britannic on which vessel he sailed for Europe to-day said: that is ridiculous Miss Claflin has made some preposterous claim of the nature you mention but I am not aware that she has taken it into court The claim amount to anything Really it is too ridiculous to seriously Theosuit unless the claim is paid at once will begin on Monday During landing tli Three Months March SI 1871 Improvements Month New Orleans Democrat 12: Ancient traditions are good enough to oppose to new-fangled theories but avail nothing as arguments against a policy calculated to afford practical relief Such a policy is that which contemplates the extension of governmental aid to the strengthening of our levees the construction of a Southern Pacific Railway and similar undertakings It may be said that the South is almost a unit in the advocacy of these projects and this fact is the strongest possible proof that they are a necessity to this portion of the country There was a time when the Southern Democracy resisted with all of its might almost every feature or the polity of internal mprovements under national auspices ut however much the masses of the party may have imagined that their opposition to this policy was founded upon principle their leaders knew perfectly well that at the bottom of this opposition lay the natural jealousy of Southern statesmen at the rapid development and tremendous growth in wealth and population of the great West which was directly traceable to the liberal appropriations made by Congress for works of a national character in that part of the Union TheSouth-ern people have now come to realize that this question is not one of principle but one of expediency and that they are as much entitled to legitimate aid as was the West at the critical time when it received it so profusely from the national coffers We have never favored and never expect to favor an indiscriminate sys tem of internal improvements involving such reckless expenditure of the money as we have witnessed since the war Such a system is demoralizing in the extreme and impo litic in every way Nor have we any sympathy with those who favor what is called the centralization of the government A centralized or paternal government breeds all of the evils which we have had so much reason to deplore 3ince the close of the war But a legitimate encouragement from the Federal Government to works of actual necessity which fall within the power of the Federal Government to regulate commerce is not by any means antagonism to the principles of those who like ourselves favor decentralization and local self-government as cardinal tenets of Democratic faith and we shall urge with all of our power the extension of national aid to such works as the building of the Mississippi levees and the construction of a Southern Pacific railway In a Paris studio Paris Cor Chicago Inter-Ocean But in spite of the profound anxieties and manifold dangers underlying student life abroad there is a broader stream of comedy running through it than perhaps through any other special portion of our common existence The funny scenes aud incidents that are continually occurring and are repeated from one to another through all Bohemia the bubbling gayety of youth which is here or elsewhere so irrepressible are enough to make an observer believe that human life would be really a comedy really a broad burst of divine and creative laughter if to-morrow was not such a great perhaps The Duran studio particularly with its strong elements of American humor added to Its infusion of French vivacity presents a pungent compound of fun that can scarcely be equaled elsewhere It is the custom to give to the students a subject for a composition which they are to paint in their own studios and to submit to the criticisms Last week the subject of the tragic love of Francisca de Remini was the one chosen for the same students Wncnoue of tho young Americans presented his picture to Carolus Duran the artist looked upon the two lovers with lip pressed to lip and then exploded after this wise YOU EVER KISS A YOUNG LADY he asked of the astonished student The youth conscious that an hundred eyes were upon him blushed crimson as he answered tremblingly know believe once thundered the master those or did you stick out your left leg in that outrageous The culprit avowed that upon those occasions he did not remember to notice the angle of his left leg young answered the master with the air of Jupiter To- nans seek a young lady kiss her CASKS Piper Heidsieck 5410 Milium fc Co 1210 Moet A Cliandon 1175 Pommery A Greno 1015 Heidsieck Co H73 Bouche Fils Co Burchard-Delbeck Co 901 Ackermnn-Ijsurance soo Charlts Heidsieck 552 Geo Uomet Co 425 Theophile Roederer Co 337 310 Ruinart Pere 11s 300 Jules Mumm Co 300 Krug Co 300 A yala Co 276 Fleur de Hillery 275 Veuve Clicquot 27( Brucli-Foucher Co 265 Due de Montebello 130 Ernest Irtoy Co 110 Bollinger 97 De Ht Marceaux Co SO The Debris of the System Must either pans through its natural channels of exit the bowels the kidneys and the pores or In default thereof poison and disorder the Zuids of the system In o-der to effect the complete expulsion of tnis dangerous refuse the organs through which It passes off must be active aud unobstructed Fortunately there Is a certain means of rendering them so when they are not Stomach Bitters stimulate the action of the excretory organs and by diffusing a genial warmth through the circulation encourage moderate persoiration By this triple effect the exodus of tho foecal and other waste matters are encouraged and the system freed from peril it would otherw ise Incur The action of the bowels which follows the use of this beneficent alterative Is easy and unaccompanied by griping and its stimulative effect upon the urinary organs very conducive to their local health Help for the weak nervous and debilitated chronic and painful diseases cured without medicine Electric Belts and other appliances all about them and how to distinguish the genuine from the spuri ous Book with full particulars mailed free Address Pulvermacher Galvanic Co Cincinnati Ohio Tiie regular army now consists of 25000 men Between the close of the Mexican war and 1861 it never exceeded 11000 enlisted men That it can now be materially reduced without the slightest injury to the public service there is no reason to doubt The country is at peace with all mankind excepting the Bourbon fag-ends of both political parties and they are not dangerous the Indian question is rapidly simplifying few troops are needed in the South and there is no iikelihood of the United States being attacked by any foreign Power In the event of such a calamity as war a Presidential proclamation of twenty lines could put 100000 volunteers in the field just so soon as they could be mustered in and armed It is yet to be demonstrated that an army larger than 12000 officers and men is longer necessary for garrison duty and to maintain peace within the borders of the United States and Territories No troops arc needed to fight the Bourbons They are gradually fretting themselves to death A Steamboat Lost Baton Rouge May 15 The steamer Sandy No 2 coming down etruck a log about 5 miles above here last night at 12 and soon after commenced sinking An alarm was given at once and the passengers rushed to the upper deck Some saved themselves on cotton bales The yawl was launched and most of the women and children were placed therein and landed safely The boat buoyed up by the cotton floated down the river with the water 2 feet deep in the cabin When passing here skiffs went out to her and succeeded in saving the balance of the passengers and crew It Is supposed three of the crew were lost The boat careened and turned over and now lies bottom upward 5 miles below here The boat and most of the cargo consisting of cotton seed 9ugar and some cattle are a total loss The passengers lost everything JOHN OSBORN SON CO Bale Agents of Piper-Held and Plpsr A Blanche NEW YORK AND MONTREAL an20 TRUSTEE SALES: Sale SPECIAL NOTICES Get Hie Genuine The groat popularity of Compound of Cod Liver Oil aid has Induced Home unprincipled perrons to attempt to palm off a simple article of their -wn manufacture but any person who 1-i suffering from Coughs Colds or Consumption should be careful where they purchase thin article It requires no putting ttie results nre Un best recommendations and (lie proprietor has ample evidence on file of its extraordinary success In pulmonary complaints The phosphate of lime possesses most marvelous healing power as combined with the pure Cod Liver Oil by Dr Wllbor It is regularly prescribed by the medical faculty For sale by A WILBUR Chemist Boston books money and office went down The papers everything in the with the boat INSURANCE TP Ia KS BY virtue of a deed in trust made to met on the 24tli day of January 1874 and recorded in the office of Hhelbv county In hook 99 page 339 and at the request of the beneficlury therein named I will proceed to sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the southwest corier ot Main and Madison streets Memphis Tennessee on Monday 4th day of Jnne 1877 The property described wit: being 1 menclng on the ginning 83 feet lrom its intersect1 on wiTii the east line of Turley sti eet thence aston the line 35 thence 8r(Utll and parallel with the line of Turley stiyet 0 fe thence west S-i feet to a slake th'ence north 140 leet to n' Iwing part of Lot lSf Hale will taVe plzee at 12 o'clock The equity of redemption Is waived In said trust deed The title believed to be good hut I convey only as trustee BEARD Trustee May 12 187? A Ml Louis Broil St Louis May 15 Jame3 Edwards Associate Justice St Louis County Court and Thomas January Treasurer of the county got into a slight altercation yesterday afternoon at the Mount Olive House several miles from the city where there had been a meeting of the County Court and January oaaauitod Edwards with a large pocket knife inflicting wound? in the arm shoulder and hand of the latter Edwards then knocked January down and would have stamped upon him and but for the interference of friends might have killed him The affair grew out of the action of Edwards in voting against the action of January for his salary as Treasurer Both are elderly gentlemen and among the oldest best known and most respectable citizens of St Louis county and have been warm friends for many years Edwards would doubtless have been killed had he not threw his arm in such a manner as to receive knife as the knife was aimed directly at his breast OF MEMPHIS TENN Office 16 Madison Street I as reported in dispatches Gov Robinson and Mr Tilden de dined to appear at the banquet given in New York city to President Hayes their presence should seem an endorsement of the declaration of the election of President thoy have not placed themselves in a very commendable attitude before the country Rutherford Hayes is President ot iho United States with a title as legal and binding as that by whieli any Executive has ever held the office Whether the tribunal created by Congress and whose action was subsequently ratified by decided all matters properly is no longer an open question The contest has ended As a result Mr Hayes is President Mr Tilden is not The country has ae quiesced in that settlement and such exhibitions ns refusal on the part of any persons whether in public or private life to the facts to which that settlement gave birth will reflect only on their authors If the dispatch he true and either of these gentlemen believes Ids action will be endorsed by the people he will doubtless live long enough to discover his mistake The public have tired of mouth-making and of crying over spilt milk The foreign trado of New York for the ten months ending April 30th shows the following figures: Convict Labor in Georgia and Tennessee Saint Paul Minn April 20 Editor Permit me to draw your attention to a letter In this Pioneer-Press on labor in Should the evil strike you as it does the writer the Avalanche is sufficiently potent to promote the Constitutional redress I am with sincere respect yours very truly 3 Edw McKeon The following is the article referred to by our correspondent: Editor ot the St Paul Pioneer Press: Dear Sir Glancing at your and column this morning we read that the State of Georgia has rented out her convict labor at the rate of $25000 a year and that some $60000 are realized by sub-renting the same This looks harmless and yet should the evil become universal in the South we shall shortly find a worse condition of slavery than before Formerly the slaveholder had a chattel interest in his slave but his interest in the convict slave ceases with his punishment Convict labor in the free States is performed within the prison limits and under the superintendence of the legally appointed guardians of the prison as at Columbus Ohio But how is it at the South? We have some parental reason for knowing it to our cost At Memphis in Tennessee General Forrest that old slave trader hires out the convict labor and utilizes it in the planting and reaping of cotton for the planters of the neighborhood and for himself and he has his prison pens on his own farm away from official supervision and surrounded by guards and bloodhounds and where any deficiency in the daily task is treated to the lash whether the unfortunate convict be weak or strong or black or white or male or female and without reference to his crime For having as a broken-pointed jack knife protruding from the rear pocket of his pantaloons whilst sitting on a log and awaiting the leparture of the steamboat on which he was a passsenger at the Memphis wharf the young truant son of to miicr was suddenly arrested and speedily condemned to fine and imprisonment and handed over to General Forrest to work out his penalty and at a rate under such drawbacks as actually insured his imprisonment and slavery for life for he could not live long thus and was already almost dead when discovered and restored to his home at a cost of fully $200 besides influence But others equally guiltless and who have no friends to look after them are similarly treated The convict farmer has a financial interest in the conviction of as many persons as he may need 'or his contracts and the obsequious aid corrupt myrmidons and magistratesof the law can readily supply the demand at a short notice in a country wheie the unprotected negro is left to steal or starve When the Joyous passengers or a Mississippi steaipboat will be passing certain island on the river below Memphis they may now or shortly hear the lash the groan or the cry of the bloodhound there and wonder what it means and whether this last state of slavery is not worse than the first In a word the negroes will be for years to come to convict courts and contractors $nd no time should be lost in providing by Congressional action against the spread or existence of convict-slavery at the South The present moderation and conciliatory conduct of President Hayes already mistaken for forced concessions to the will vindicate itself in the complete protection of all citizens Citizen So far as the above refers to Memphis it is a mixture of truth and falsehood old slave trader Gen does work the convicts of Shelby county according to his contract at a stipulated amount per diem These convicts are fed and sheltered as well as convicts have a right to expect That Gen Forrest gets the greatest possible amount of labor out of them is highly probable that bloodhounds and shotguns are kept to prevent escapes from and to recapture those who escape is true and necessary to prison protection Shflby county does not trust much tothe honor of thieves and brawlers and a man with a shotgun in his hands is deemed more potent as a guard than that honor In this connection it Is proper to state that several months since Edward Shaw a prominent colored man of this city went down to with a committee to Investigate the charges of bad treatment of colored prisoners He afterward published as the result that they were as humanely treated and fared as well as such prisoners could expect As to the truant son of the he was perhaps too truant for laws to overlook And a boy that has been sent to for theft or other crime would hardly hesitate to lie to shield himself from disgrace at home and to avenge himself on his punishers That any one is arrested or ever has been arrested for having a pointed is simply absurd and false The law of Tennessee now is that a convict shall be mad to work oCt his OFFICERS WM FARRINGTON President LEMMON Vice President CARRINGTON MAHON Secretary DIRECTORS: WM FARRINGTON LEMMON CHURCH BOBINHOlJ ENOCH ENHLEY 1 NO OVERTON Jk 8 BRUCE Dwellings and all classes of business Insured noon most favorable terms projertj jCr us Sale and and by virtue of acertaln trust deed to me made by Harriet A Lltilejshu of date June 6 1874 and recorded in the office of Hhelbv county on the 9tli day of June 1874 In book 103 page 169 to which reference Is hereby made I as Trustee will on Saturday Hay 86 1877 nt 12 of that day at the northeast corner Main and Madison streets In the city of Memphis Tenn expose for sale to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situate lying and being In the city of Memphis county ot Hlielhy and State of Tennesseede-scrihed as follows to-wit: Commencing on Bass avenue 157 feet from Town Heserve avenue thence east along said Bass avenue 155 feet thence south at right angles with Bass avenue 210 feet thence west parallel with said Bass 155 feet thence north 210 feet to the place of beginning being the land formerly owned by one Henry Alexander All equity or right of redemption lH pressly waived Title Is believed tq ne good out I convey only as Trustee AMes Trustee Sale BY' virtue of the two Separate deeds In trust of James Polk ard others executed tothe undersigned as Tru'e therein named the one dated the 4th cf May 1873 and of record I11 3 13 etc the ol her dated the 12th 1 ay 1874 and of record In the same book at 691 etc of the proper records of 111 county In the Htate of Mississippi I will the powers therein contained on I he 16th day of May 1877 Upon the premises therein described proceed within the lawlul hours to sell at publio outcry to the highest bidder for cash the follow A Fire St John May 15 By a fire in St Stephens yesterday a large number of business places in King and Water streets were destroyed including the telegraph office the Courier newspaper office and hotel Both sidesof Water street from Nehe-miah Mark to shipyard were swept by the fire and also both sides of King street from Water street to hoise and the New Bruns wick and Caiada Railroad depot wharves lumber and a number of buildings LOTTERIES I1 it i i 10 ivtiPATiK io Over Half a Million Ills ribnled LOUISIANA ST ATE LOTTERY This institution was regularly Incorporated bv the Legislature of the Ktste for Educational anil Charitable purposes In 1868 with a Capital or $1000000 to wli ell It has since added a reserve fuud of $350000 Its Grand single Number Drawings will take place monthly Jt never scales or postpones Look at the following Ncli6m6 0 GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT During which will take place the Extraordinary Semi-Annual Drawing At New Orleans Tuesday June 5 1877 Under the personal supervision and management of Gen BEAUREGARD of Louisiana and Gen JUBAL A EARLY of Virginia CAPITAL PRIZE 8IOOOOO Tickets are Ten Dollars only Halves 5 quarters ti 50 Eighths $1 25 list of prizks: 1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $100000 $100 OU 1 OR AND PRIZE OF 50000 50 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 2 LARGE PRIZES OF 4 LARGE PRIZFS OF 20 PRIZEH OF 50 do 100 dq 200 do 000 do 10000 do APPROXIMATION 100 Approximation Prizes of $200 20000 100 do do 100 10000 100 do do 75 7500 Hlx months Jiuuiury Ravages ol Buffalo Gnats In Mississippi Lexington Advertiser 11th Buffalo gnats in countless numbers made their appearance in the Yazoo Valley and the hill country contiguous thereto one day last week and from that time till the present date have damaged the farming interests of this county from $10000 to $20000 We hear of the deaths of plow stock from the Leflore line on the north to the Yazoo on the south here a mule there two or three at other places four or five and still at others larger numbers At one place our information futs the loss ot the proprietor at the arge number of nineteen head Altogether we do not think we over estimate when we state the numberof dead horses and mules to be from 150 to 200 and the value thereof from $10000 to £20000 Quite a number of planters have been in town this week for the purpose of purchasing mules with which to sup ply the places of the dead ones but the stock is totally inadequate to the demand If some of the numerous dealers that usually migrate to this section about the time the wild geese be gin to fly southward and return northward simultaneously with the sandhill cranes had had foresight enough to have had a full supply of the hybrids on hand to meet the present emergen cy they would have struck a The gnats usually come much earlier in the season than this and as they did not arrive at the accustomed time the people had very naturally concluded that they would not be visited by the little pests at all this year consequently they wire totally unprepared to protect their animals April before you come to the studio again and mark well the angle of your leg during the process It is asserted by the students at Durans that every American among them blushed during the scene Whether it was for the angle of the masculine left leg in their own yet unexposed sketches or for some other reason I know not While speaking of Durand I will give an on dit His picture for the coming salon is the portrait of Who may have been the model I do not know I have only heard that she i9 the typical Americaine of the Freoch fancy To Frenchmen our countrywomen are strange wild mysterious fascinating enchantresses of the style of the Mr in Alexander of Carolus picture is extended full length upon a sofa with a goodly portion of her shapely ankles exposed and brass-heeled slippers dropping negligently from the dainty feet which French critics will probably pronounce impose sihle so unnatural is the size of the American pedal extremity as compared with the massive European foot I heard last summer at Vichy two Frenchmen speakiDg of a pretty woman who had just passed us said one of them said the other vrai-ment she is an American did you not notice her petits That same morning the same lady had said to me wonder where I can buy a pair ol sabot? I am tired of hearing remarks upon my feet at every turn I wish a dozen of my New York friends would come here that have feet somewhat smaller than the state ol Rhode Island they might not attract so much Moise Total mdse ing described property viz: Lying and being slti situate Military Movements New York Ma Gov Emery of Utah has writtei a letter to the Secretary of War retuesting that Camp Douglas be providec with five compa' nies of infantry anc two of cavalry that Camp Cameron should have two full companies ot Lfantry that one infantry company should be quartered at St George that aiother should be sent to Logan in (Jaffie Valley and that the company at Frt Hall should be retained and reinforod Export of Goj New York May steamers take out $250 00( gold coin and a like amount was wthdrawn to await steamer lor which $500000 have already been lacked The ten months ending with April 1874 showed an Import of merchandise amounting to $309550974 and the same date 1873 $350148842 or one hundred and sixteen millions more than the returns now submitted EXPORTS EXCLUSIVE OP SPECIE nierce That partial payments not exceeding two-thirds of the actual cost of construction may be made under qualifications provided That no iron rails ot less weight than 5G pounds per yard or steel rails of less than 50 pounds made from American ores shall he used and the gauge shall be 4 leet 8'A inches Section 5 provides that the acceptance of this act snail ipso facto constitute a first lien upon the respective lines of road and telegraph the building of which is provided lor in the act and upon the rolling stock depot-grounds shops fixtures and property of every kind appertaining thereto as well as upon all the lands granted by the United States and by the States in aid thereof and for the execution of a first mortgage on said property to secure the interest as well as a sinking fund It also provides as an additional seourity that the respective companies shall pav into the Treasury of theUnited States as tne interest coupons on said bonds shall mature and as the installments for the sinking fund become due and payable First The proceeds of sales of lands Secondly Tho gross earnings on Government business Thirdly A sufficient amount from the earnings of the roads to make up such interest payment to be provided for and also "to provitfe a sinking fund to commence with the year 1880 of one per centum per annum in gold coin said one per cent per annum to be paid until all bonds are extinguished That the sinking fund shall be Invested in the bonds of the company if obtainable at or below par or at such price above par as may be agreed upon otherwise in United States bonds at current market value That all guaranteed bonds furnished on account of the sinking fund shall be canceled but the company issuing them shall continue to pay interest thereon until the sinking fund is sufficient to take up pll the bonds of said company Section 6 authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury should there at any time be a deficiency in the amount provided by any one of the companies to pay the installment of interest due to sell any part ol the five thousand dollars per mile of bonds reserved for that purpose or such other bonds as shall not have been required for the construction and equipment ol the line Section 7 requires the companies to pay all the expenses incurred in executing the provisions of the act Section 8 declares the roads constructed under this act postal and military routes and requires them to be maintained and operated as such at fair rates ot compensation for Government service the rates to le agreed upon by the Secretary of War and the Postmaster General as to their respective departments in conjunction with the proper officers of the road the Go vern me nt never to be charged rates exceeding those paid by private parties for similar service It gives the Government the preference in the use of the lines and to all roads now or herealter constructed under the authority of the United States the right to intersect at any point with said lines of railroad Section 9 provides that the act shall not in any way be construed to impair the obligations assumed by the Texas and Pacific Railway Company or the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company under the laws of the States through which they pass or as enlarging or diminishing any power privilege property or franchise grantod or acquired under the laws of said States or either of them Section 10 authorizes the construction of three branch roads: First From Marshall Texas tq the city of New Orleans Second From Shreveport to Vicksburg Third From Jefferson Texas to Memphis The companies authorized to oonstruot these branches may issue bonds to the extent ot $30000 per mile and the Government shall guarantee the payment of the interest thereon upon the same terms and conditions as provided tor the companies building the main line They are to secure the Government in the same way but they are limited to the use in construction of ah average of $25000 per mile but in no event to exceed the actual cost of the road Section 11 prohibits the companies building the main line from entering into any combination agreement or contract with any competing through line for the transportation of through or local freight or in regard to schedules for the movement of trains It gives the President of the United States through Commissioners to be appointed by him power to examiqq the books of said companies and to take testimony in order to ascertain whether this provision has been violated and If they report the existence of any such agreement It is made the duty of the Attorney General of the United States to institute pfcn oeedings in the proper court for the forfeiture of their charters Section 12 give the right of Way and Rtjileges for depot and station houses in W0 military reservations but requires the complies to establish and maintain at points most convenient forth Oorenuiani business Section 4 requires the acceptation Visions or jbe sot by ae 2 mpanies whin three or tbCBe In said county and State and known and designated in the public surveys thereof as all of section twenty-two and the west half of section twenty-seven al I In township three of range eleven west with the buildings and improvements thereon Also fifteen Mules together with the farming tools and Implements ot all kinds and descriptions thereon as descriled in said deeds or sa much and Buch parts thereof as may be sufficient to pay off and discharge the sums secured by said deeds and then remaining unpaid as well as all costs and expenses ot the execution of said trust The property above described comprises one of the best tracts of land In that county and having about 600 acres open land and In a good' state of cultivation and very desirable for planting The title Is believed be without embarrassment and perfectly good but In selling I will only warrant the title as Trustee etc apJRrot DfXON Trustee 1877 11279 Prizes amounting to 522600 Gen BEAUREGARD of La 1 Gen JUBAL A EARLY of Va Komm rs Write for Circulars or send orders to A DAUPHIN I Box 692 New Orleans La Third Grand Dollar Drawing Tuesday July Capital Prize 20000 Tickets 1 each my3 wl ra Hlx months end UK -Ian I- January Kohl nary March April $151493616 25403169 19062718 19822 112 21764071 $278145705 20053780 Total prod Add specie THAYER $258199485 Total exports THAYER 310 Second Street TEXAS A PACIFIC notices: I n'th kjh a cTF'shjclby county Tennessee No John Walker vs White Nancy Fox the estate of White and Maddnx Administrator etc or Washington Bolton deceased It appearing from affidavit in this cause that the defendants White and Nancy Fox are citizens of Kentucky and non the State ot Tennessee that this suit was commenced by complainant April 20 1S77 In compliance with section 4288 of the Oode of Tennessee alleging an Indebtedness against White of 2690 24 as evidenced by Judgment recovered In Circuit Court of Favette onqnty As will be seen from the above fig ures for the ten months ending April 30 our exports exceed our Imports $23909821 so far as the port of New York is concerned The decrease has been felt only at the Houthem cotton ports caused by the shortness of the crop and the lower rarge of prices per pound The cotton shipments thus far I been about 160000 bales A (blel Jvsllee Columbia May The Senate and House met in joint session at 1 pm to ballot for Chief Justioship of the State Associate Justice A Willard was elected on the first balot receiving 86 of 128 votes This ceates a vacancy in the Associate Justieshipt election for which will probably take place next week Mexican Changes New Orleans May 15 A Gal'es ton News special from Eagle Pass stys that Gen Pavaldez with a following-)i 600 soldiers in the district of Ro Grande State ot Coahula Mexico pro nounced for the Leredo Government Sunday morning and is now in possession of the whole District of Rio Grande except the town of Piedras Ne-gras and it is understood will attack that town in four or live days The public buildings there are heavily Kentucky also by reason orthe surety of complainant for said defendant White In two promissory notes for 4287 03 and 4319 83 respective- 1 14 tirklitk 4 A 1 ly which in at Fhfi Bfcaiiikj6iFa JEWELLER Jobber and Dealer in Hon David Key on Decoration Day Washington May 8 Colon Guthrie Cincinnati Ohio Dear Bir: I thank you and the committee of which you are chairman for your invitation to attend your memorial ceremonies on Decoration Day I wish I could attend but my officials duties iyill demand iqy time and prevent mv acceptance I rejoice to hear you say that the soldiers that are bnried in your beautiful city of the dead vhether they wore the Blue or the Gray vill be alike respected He who dies for a xuse be believes is lust may have done w-oag in engaging in tne strife but be has conmitted no sin He may have died a Christian an honest man The fact that the Bouthern soldier staked his life on his 11186 manifested his sincerity Say if you Pie-V that he was mistaken that he did a great but say at the same time that he was hou an(j "brave On the grave of 8U S1 one may fall from kindly eyes -ewn by lovely "hands without upon certain amounts have been paid leaving unpaid In all at least 6000 00 that a writ of attachment has been Issued ana returned levied on the property of said White It Is therefore ordered That they make tlielr appearance nerein at the courthouse in the: city of Memphis Tennessee on or before tl4 first Monday in July 1877 and plead aa swer or demur to bill or the will be taken for confessed as to aa feodants White and Fox and set for he- depart and that a copy of this order anng ex once a week for four successive published Memphis Avalanche weeks in the Id JHemorlaiu Cincinnati May The This 8th day of May ISTT A Attest SOLID GOLD GOODS Clocks of Every Description peetaelfes to auf all Eyes Beat In the market fram SOe to 8 la Diamond Betting and repairing of dlfficnltle8 and ad1nwtPig fine Watches a sod rial tv PPINTJING TOOF Job EDMUND A COLE By Blacf Clerk and Master and Bob for complainants my9 Abstract of House Bill No 4531 reported to the House of Representatives January 24 1877 from the Committee on Pacific Railroads entitled bill amend alo-y of and supplementary to an act to incorporate the Texas and Pacific Railway Company and to aid in the construction of its road and for other etc Section 1 authorizes the Texas and Pa-cige Railway Company to construct its line or railway and telegraph from its present western terminus at Fort Worth Texas to apoint one hundred miles west of El Paso tuere to form a junction with the Southern Pacific Railroad (of California) required to oonstruot at least 100 miles within two years after the passage of the acs and not less than fifty miles per annumthereafter and complete its eon structio within six years It apthrizes the Southern Pacific Railroad Company (ot California) to build from Fort Yami eastwarcly Jo the point of junction wig the Texas and Pacific and westward to Diego using its own line now completed and to be completed without Governmentaid between Fort Yuma and San GnrsrorU pass as a uart of the through JUn suDjeet the restnJions and safeguards qf the bill 8ix w-a afc ter the passage of the aet That all of said lines are to be use vv the publio and by the Government as connected and continuous line and bibits discrimination in rates ef freight fare by either of said companies against the other That fair and reasonable rates shall be agreed upon by said companies neVeV to etes charged by competitive Fadfio lines for similar business and reserves to Congress the right to regulate the rates for transportation of freight and pas-aengers and for postal and telegraph service over the entire lines Baclfl0 in of the act wlth- -l ftr Its approval 6t having accepted fafi Jq om Notice reproach yery truly Key OxjxiSill Allen managed to tbr other day long enough to be interviewed The ancient William is not pleased with the world He does not think it as well managed as when a few thousand years ago he sauntered amid the shades of the sturdy oaks and communed with the Druids The ancient Riseup is seriously disturbed at the progress of the Texas Pacific railroad measure Jle dwells lovingly upon old-fashioned Democratic opposition to Internal improvements in the prehistoric ages when his mighty voice which cracked the walls of Congress on week day's was on 8undaya taken down to the coast and utilized as a fog horn The Democracy was Internal improvements- then therefor it must he them now And tothe extent that the world has strayed from the ancient Riseup the world has Atrayed in a wrong direction 1 Thus the ancient Riseup for a column or more It is unfortunate that he bland interviewer did not draw Un A Paradise lor kquirrel tftaXte From the MaryayUJe (Cal) Appeal) -Ajrp- ail fees (accumulated prior to sentence) and the fine or imprisonment ailoted him no more Thus any system his Imprisonment lor Is absolutely impossible The charge that aud corrupt magistcates trump up charges etc just to seep the hands full nas no facts to rest on The negro is not obliged to or in this land Contrast the abundance of work with the idleness thrust on the thousands of poor white workmen of the North if you please Our convicts are of all colors all nationalities knowing but one common brotherhood of crime The above are the facts as obtained from the best sources of infor matioq One fact our correspondent should bear in mind it is not always safe to take word on these questions Nearly all declare their innocence and insist that they are badly treated while in prison members of the bar of the United States Circuit and District Courts in this city met this am and appointed Stanley Matthews Noyes Lincoln and others a committee to draft suitable resolutions on the death of Judge Emmons in Detroit yesterday The committee will make their report on Saturday next Master Mechanics St Louis May The annual Convention ol the Bail road Master Mechanics Association of the (Jnited States convened in the Chamber of Commerce building this morning and were welcomed to the city by Mayor Overstolz in a brief address Letters were received from Britton President and A Bobinson Second Vice President resigning their respective positions and Chapman Fint ate ol Tennessee Shelby county Offloe County Court Clerk Memphis Tenn May 6 1877 To 8 Green Executor of Green Having suggested the Insolvency of the estate of NT Green you are hereby ordered to give notice by advertisement In some newspaper published within the said State and also at the court house door of Shelby county for ail persons having claims against said estate to appear and file the same with the Clerk of the County Court authenticated in the manner prescribed by law on or before the 6th day of August 1877 and any claim not filed on or before said day or before an appropriation 0 tba funds of said estate 1s made shall be forever haired both In law aud equity Witness my hand at offloe this 6th day of May 1877 JAMES REILLY Clerk By Jko Hhxa I hereby give the above notice to all the creditors of said estate xx to GREEN Executor May 6 1877 Finlay Peters A Greene tor myilsai book i-NTTFACTURER No 15 Court Street Yearly the squirrels are beco-ug more numerous and a greater pest They are so thick in places ss to prove very destructive to crops All sorts or devioes are employed to kill them hut they appear to Increase in numbers Th Legislature could authorize the county to offer bounty lor squirrel Skins By sa doing profitable employment would be rnlhe4 tor a fiumter of idle boys Cr better still the Legislature might empower tie Road Supervisors of each dlstric to order out all the boys between thf ve and seventy-five to kUlHulr8' ThU l8 Plan adopted in Kane! klu gwshoppers Something har0 done or in some portions of the wley the squirrels will take possession appro' "om And it de- Clares that Everything In the line of JOB PRINTING an 11)0 BINDING executed In the BKBT ANNER and at the LOWEST PRICES Please call and examine sped menFand prices Wedding Garda Visiting Cards Invitalllona to duplicate shall not be construed pauijjj mD7i und grants to said com-.