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STERLING PRICE. A PE1 Plf TCBE OF MOLD PAP" JJO HIS ARMY Of Braie Mltgonrlanr, Who Hade So I JUnj Gloriou Brora's oa BoU Hides of the Hirer. looauiaroirsMCi or thi appbal.1 Haw Yeax, November 28. There are lorre mm who eun to t ave been ' born with ibe )arel on tbeir brows, and srratntM crntiDaes to be trims npon them. Tbere li bo inter; op Ion in tht-ir nmr of slorv std tacsi. The tribute if tbe pfople ia paid ti inem spontarieotnljr, ana worn itiej pass away, it ia amid a halo (bat (trows brighter witQ the lengthonlrg years Of euch a type of niaa was bterling Jfrice. Leaving hie civil pnramta in Mis souri at trie Dguming: or, our iroDoiea, after bavirg been tbe recipient of the highest bouora in tbe gift of tbe State, he entered the service of hia country ae a general of tbe Missouri 6tae Guard. Of troops, he bad com para lively coo. Ot arms, there was i ecantineta both in numbeiaaod qual ity; yet inch waa tbe magic of big name that, notwithstanding tbeee dis advantages, a few wetka found gath ered around Ha standard an array of bmve nun, whose fame and prowess have since become "as household words." Tbe rtsalt of that small bnt glorions beginning is upon tbe records of the Confederacy. The handful of choice epii 1 s soon swelled to the di mensiona of a cloud, and the partisan chief became a major general in tbe army, a deserving peer in that noble cluster of Southern srldters. Lbs, Beaurcgjrd, Brag?, Johnston, Hardee, Poik, Breckniidge, John Morgan, .Forrest and a score of others. Let me di scribe Stirling Price a) I saw him on the field near Corinth, in 1862 He has a large Websterian bead, coveted w itb a growth of thick, while hair: a h'gb. brrad. intellectual fo-e- head, florid free, do beard, and a mouth smorg who-e latent smiles you discover tbe iron will that surmounts obslacles. Bis laugh, and it is not infrequent, reveals a set of pearly teeth that recall tbe remark about Ethan Allen's they would serve to draw nails. Tbe striking feature, however, is bis eye a calm, beauti tally bloe, soul revealing orb which is a tot 09 a key to evtry emotion of the man. It is an eye tbat never blanched at danger, and it was the , boapt of his men that he never looked nnnityirsly e n tbeir sufTeriFES. Over six fett in beiht,with a frame to match, full bot not portly; and straight as an Indian, his carriage is marked with dignity, grace and Kentleoef s aud every motion bespeaks the attitude and pteaence of tbe well bred gentleman. A paeeii n te lover of music the same tec der heart that brcods over swett sounds gives flow lo the sympa- ior those who are in distress. This was manilYsW during bis masterly retreat from khorn. . Timo and time again did be dismount from hia horse to give plfc to tome tick or wounded soldier, and wben it wps suggested tbat it would be be ter to leave these in valids behind, his reply bs be threw a lunous lo a at the individual was: "No, sir; I'll sarrifice my whole- army Deiore i oseri my wonnaea." In conversation tbe General is a marked specimen of ''the fine old En glish gentlemen." Be is gentle, uave and well informed, and, moreover, an admirable listener. He speaks quickly, but with caution, and hia words when on duty are a laconic and decirve as bis acts. He reads human nature intuitively, and pos sesses tbe rare faculty of adapting himself readily to every pereon with whom he is brought in contact. Ac cessible to all, be is as kindly demo cratic with his soldiers as he ia courtly with his offiuiKl tquals. No one can lay an nnd- terved fffront at the door of Sterling Price. It is this careful ooneidt ration of their feelings that has Slven him si firm a hold upon the earts of bis mt-n. -Someidiaof tbe attachment exist ing between the General and bis army may be Lad fiomthe fact that he is everywhere known by tbe aflo rjomate cow.br iqnet of 'O.d Dad Price." "Who do yon belong to?" askrd an officer cf end of the solditrs of a pass ing regiment in Memphis. "To the old man," ai tbe reply. "Who's the old manT" "Wby, O'd Did Price. Hain't you heerd cf hm yit?" "Yer, I bave. But where is he bow T" cont nued tbe qnesiinner. "I don't km.w wbar in thunder he is now," was the Veteran's answer; "but wait till we g't irto a ectimmrge and I'll rhjw you 0 d Dad rigbtin tue midst cf tbe fire, wbar the la rp posts and tbe munies ie a flyiu' tbe thickest" (Lamn post was tbe name the boys of the West nave to the conical shells of tbe enemy.) Tbe army of Gen. Pries was made up of ex'remtt a heterogeneous mix ore of all human compounds, and rep resented in its varions elements ev ery condition of Western life. There were the old and the young, the rich and the pier, tbe high and low. the grave and gay, tbe planter and la borer, tbe farmer ana clerk, hunter and boatman, merchant and woods manmen, too, who havs gone from every State, and been brocsad in ev ery latitude from the mountains of the Northwest to the pampas of Mex ico. Americans, Iodians. half breeds, Mexicans, Frenchmen, Germans, Ital ians, Hpaniaids, Poles, and for augbt that is known to tbe contrary, Hottxn tote all bad mixed in the motley macs who t ad rallied around the flag of their leader. Every man bad come from his borne fitted with the beat and strongest that loving mothers, wives and sisters could put upon him. And tbe r-pec-tacle presented when they were drawn up in line formed an Arabesque pat tern of the most parti-colored crowd of people cn which human eyes ever rested. Home were in black, full tit sen's drets, with beaver bats and frock coats; tome in homer-pun drab; some in nothing bat red shirts, pants and big top boois; some attempted a dis play with the old fashioned militia uniforms of thi ir forefathers ; some bad "banners fl ruling from tbe outer walls" in the rear, and now and then one might pa a for our friend the Georgia Major, whose military attire was a shirt collar and a pair of spars. 'Beano wer. ta rasa, Bob la Ufa, And some iB rolrot -owni." Take them all in all, they rivaled "those fanUn'ic shapes that hang upon the walls of memory in a poet's dream." But if the drees wm unique, tbe fteraomiel oi a majority of the men was not lew remarkable. They were heavy, large headed, brown faced fel lows wbo looked as if in a fight they might weigh a ton apiece. Fully three-flf tba of them were over six feet in height, and a giodly nnmbtr were s'ripplioits ringing in ags from 15 to 19. In the mat er if bealih, it was Serb a os better than th-t or any ether ody of troops in be field, altbodgb lew suffered mora hardship, or more frequently bungeied for tbe nee s sariesvjf life. Their weapons were not less m'scol laneuus than their drese. At fi at many were armed with ordinary shot guns and iifl, but later it beiate a proud hca;t among them thai "Da t Price's men were able to tqa;p them selves from tbe rpoils of the enemy." Nearly every man in tbe division was a snpxrb st otaod tbe mrjiri y were at home on the mot iraitons of hcrses. It wa easy, ihertf re, t J im provise an effective ccmrrisnd of cav alry. While tt Memphis the wiiter beard a bet made tbat a certain boy, IS years old io one tf tbe r g men's, rould not, at a di-tance of 600 yards, bit the crown of a bat four times out of five with am nnie rfla. Tbe bet was taken by an officer, tbe hat put up and tbe lad, who was standing by leaning on bis gun, was ordered tu fire. Ten times in succession be pierced tbe bat within two inches cf tbe center. Tbe wager was cheerfully paid and considerately banded to the sharpshooter as a tribute to bis skill. Aa tne loser remarked, it didn't "pay to bet on stock yen know nothing about." Tbe young man af erwatd remarked to a bystander that he never missed anytbirg he could see. Snch is a brief sketch of Price and his little army, wbo, with a'l their rooghnees, aptly illustrate what the Southern poet, Henry Timrod, meant when be wrote in hia "Call toArrxs:" "Com with tbe weapone tt your call With noaket. Dike or knit; Be wield, tbe deaillieat blade of all to ho lighUst holda hia I'fe." F. Q. DEFONTAINE, (Paravane.) MIXICO. Brfoima la CaroaiNN, Important Iateranl Citt or Mixioo, November 2T. An important economic reform was for mally proclaimed tortay. A movement baa been going on for tome time for pnttii g an end lo the system of taxa tion whereby tbe Siates collected duties on national and foreign mer chandise in transit through tbeir re spective territories, a system whiih Las been pronounced by railway man age rs more t armfnl to tbe develop ment of the internal commerce tf the country than any other plan thatrould have been devised. In May last a cons itutional amendment was sub mitted to tbe btatea forbid dug the imposition of tiaueit duties, import duties on products of other States and cn the ixporthton of merchandise, either manufactured a t eles or produc'scf the toil. J he i m ndment also loi bids the States to e saiga epecial routes for the conveyance t f goods of native orig'n ; as Las heretofore been done; aleo, to pu a h;gher impr-rt duty on lore gn good j than will be fixed by the f ederal laws. It isexpecttd 'ha' Uun- grees will fix a unilorm tax of 6 per cent, ad Tdiorem. This amendment having been adopts d by a mejonty of the States, nes received tie eanction cf both chambers cf C ngrese, and was today t reclaimed in tbe neual form lead at various points in tbe city ar.d copits of it potted on wai's. Tbe ceremony tok place between 9 o'clock and noon, troops tormtrg part of the citicial proces1 elon through the city. No moie im portant economic reform has ever been out in operation in this country. and it will undoubtedly lend to a large expar eion oi trade, boih foreign and domestic It is regarded w th great favor by the business community as one of the chief acts of the prtstnt adminletration. I . BAILWAT WEATHER BUREAU T Be Zstabllahed hj tta Uoloa Pa- cllle Ballroad. Chioaoo. Ill . November 27. Tbe Union Pacific has complt ted arrange ments to eetablith a weather aervice over its entire tystem, sim.lar to tbat in use by tbe federal Government. Tbere are to be thirty-two sUticns. Nine will be fist cless stations, equipped with a (nil set of obervir g inetrumen s. There will be nine second clhfs stations. Two observa tions will ba made each day. at 4 o clock a m. .and 4 p m.,and reported to headquarters at Umaba. J rains will be equipped and operated arcordirg to tbe weather reports. These repor s will aid materially in the rate ship rue' t of live stock and ptri hab'e gocdn. The officer to be io cha ge cf tne union fecino weather py-tem ts i eur. j v. tr. r.iweii, oi tne uovern- ment Sigaal Service. His i alary h to t ptid bv tbe govern ment. Ai o ner expenses wi I be borne by tbe nihoad corapier y. This is tbe first etemp' at railway me'eofo logical service, and will probably be eet erally a iop ed. Tba Cnic: g) and N rihwesteru and tbe Central Pacific have ben invited to co-operute with tbe Union tdWHc, to as to make a through railway wentber servioe be tween Sau Fram.isc at.d Ciiicao. II FR INVir TIOIf. Bhe'a a very aha-mlna maid,.' Dut I matt nay I'm alraid hhe'an B.rt. And I don't mind telling why; in the wiiea of niannera aljr,. luid kok and downoaat ere. She'a expert. On the dr when trat we met Ahl I nerer n forgnt All bfr rcel Ber aoft (aars'a d linir charm. And bar dimpled, rounded arm, And the look f ahr alarm In bar faoe I Well, aa I waa toing to aar, On that moat erentml day When we met. We got talkinc of 8ath Lee That Is where ahe llvea, you lee Aad ahe t ied to raltare me In uer net. When I looked dwn Is her faoe, Andlnqnirids "What irtot pla plaee la Sooth Lee?" With a qntak, hy, upward clanse loai loreioaen'" a romance, one replied i "Whit ir nor an eel Come and ae- I" bimtrtilU Journal I'emaasdere Haraaoay'ai Denial. Wachington, November 27. Com modore Hamony denies the truth of the report that several hundred men had been given employment at the Norfolk Ntvv Yard ja t pre vious to tun last eh eitiois f r poli ical reasons, and bad been Jiamis-ed after the elections were over. O.m modore Harmony was ailing Seoetry of the Navy at the time tbe appointment-) were made, and eays that about seventy-five men were employed to per form work on tbe United States steamer Trenton nnd the training ships which needed repa ring. The appointments were made, however, in accordance with the regulatiors.wbicb require them to be iLade after f nr days' advertising for the meo. Thi order of Secretary Whitney forbid ding the employment ot men for polit ical "pnrpifej, he said, would bave prevented the appointments ae alleged. Tbcss employ, a are still at work. Those wbo we.e d sc barged were em ployed on miecellaneons work for tbe new crniserm, and were dismissed be- caase tnelr work ws completed. MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL SUNDAY, CHRIST BEFORE FiLATE. MU5K1CSTS GBEAT PAIX1ISH US EXHIB1TI0S Is the Fame Building Whereia Salinl Kore Nave ills Paxsioa Play and O'Aelll Pla)cd Jeus., IcoaaiaroaDiNCi or tbb arraAL. Naw Y.bx. Nnvmber 27. ' When I wanted to p!ay Jeeas they wouldn't let mn, and now look at t bat 1" The epeakr did not it. tend tbe slULt'Bt impie y, or even triviality. Oa the mn'rery. be was in reverent eirnes' He wat James O'Neill, tue actor, and what be meant w.s that eevera1 years ago be t ai been preve ted by law from enacting the r In of tbe Sivior in a Passion pla' , while now be stood tacing at a thea ncl r presentati n of Christ before Pilta. It was in tbe vry same theater, too, where Salmi Morse spent f7(',(X0 in prepaiing the oivine trageoy ior performance, but was at iaet stopped in bis enterpr ee It ia true that the personages m the preeent scene were merely p.cinted, (or it was Michael Munkacay's paiuting tbat was on exhibition; but tbe big picture was set in tbe proscenium opening, which it filled; the figures were mesio; tney were lllumiLated by foot and border lights, stage fash ion ; the spectators eat like an audi ence in iront; ana tbe whole was s artliEgly like a dramatic represents tion. No wonder that O'Neill, wbo bad been forbidden to at t tbe part of Uhribt in a p ay on tbat tame snot. should regard tbe Munkacsy show as unjustly privileged. After the Moras failure, the teber nacle, as be called hia theater, waa en gaged by tbe Bev. A. B. Hmpeon for regular Sunday services. The attractive feature of Mr. Simpaon'a work was miraculous beauts. He occupied public at.ention for a time as a passing setieatu n, ana then removed his el forts to the iron tabernacle on the other side of tbe city. Af er this Morse s building sank into tbe ob scurity of a lectu'e hal'. until Mic'iael oi Munkacsy c roared tbe sea sick billow and called npon the people of the metropolis and tbe whole continent in fact, to bow down and worship him in toe lcioi wok n re set up in tne tnber nacle. Muiikacsy'a ideal of Jesus stands In lis b g gill frame on tbe verv fct. gH where Morte's Obiist was to be crucified, and where bimpssn pre tended to be tbe medium ot Chris t healing power. Ia its way tbe paint ing is an innovation, a destroyer of popular notions, and to many it will doubtles seem somewhat sacrilegious. Tbe innovation referred to is not in the nse of colois, or in the devices of the ariist to secure efl-cr, thrngri the Hungarian will undoubtedly fijd the artisfc) and critics of America three aimed in def. nse of ihe rules and in opposition to the Infringement there of; it is ia teard to the ideal of Je sus, Ibe greatest painters rince tbe cegianirg oi tbe Uurietian eta bave avieed ia certain n spe its ia tbe de- Unea'lonsol Jsuss fra'urea. As a consequence tbe people tbe world over Lave come to associate with tbe name of Obiist a certain expression of face, and certain a.tendant features that they will m'ss unwillingly in Mun kacsy 'a work. For although the 240 square feet of canvas covered by Michael's brush contaio a score or more of figures, -and all hough each person in the group heB his indvidual place and meaning in the snneral con ception, it is the fi.ure of Christ tbat will command attention aa tbe crite rion of genius, originality and anis ic inspiration. Munkacsy endeavois to portray him as a thinker; a revolu tionist, if you will, one of the uncom premising agi atirs of progressive ideta. In duing this he gives the Sa vior a stern expression ot face, a com mandinir presence, in whica unyield ing conviction, calm but very deter mined, ia more prominent than tbe c.mpassbn we aie accustomed to a--so- cia'e with mm. Muokacey a'so dis cards tbe balo with which bis prede cessors bave always distingu.shed Christ's head. "I prefer to paint Him in His apect as a man, ne explained, "but my manager is of the orthodox, conven tional way of thinking. He argues that the ha'o is an essential feature 'n every Christian's imagination. He fav. ra the introduction of one, and it hag beea proposed to eoiploy elect rii i ty for flat purpose. 'Jell me do you tuii k that tbe public would mistake our intention, and im gine that we meant to he the atiicai 7" "PcSiibly," waa tbe roply. OMAR JAMES. VANITY OF UKKAT MEN CONSCIOVa OF THEIR SCPXK- auocsdiau rewiis, What Thry Have Raid lo Iodleale the Hell Coweeliintneas of Uenlae aad Ability. Mr, Morrill in a biok recently pub lished by Ticknor & Co., of B stun, g ve; some apt and ente-taining illus trations ti toe vanity (1 griat men. He shows that apart from the discriroinntion to be J ie-fy roted as between tbe mental an-i moral qua'i tie?, and tbe circpms'aoce, illusirted in v ryday life, that a man mav be oistinguiebed and modeet or obscure and arrrgant, the patent facts of his tory rise like monuments to rem;nd and reassure us. II there bave been Napoleqns there have been Grants. But let us pnt toirether some of the most remark ab e bits of egct'am re corded in Mr. Morrill's pages of some of tbe most remarkable perrons. To this end we have selected the follow ing group: ariciAL conoiit or thi gbiat. NaFolsoh tbc Gbat. One of Na poleon's mardbala handed to tbe E n peror a book from an upper shelf, with tbe remark : "I am higher than you. s re." "lonser. not Llirher." re sponded Napoleon. "In my Coun cil," he said another time, "there were men possessed of much more e'nqiience than 1 was, but I always defeated them by the eimple argu ment two ana two mttke four." After til, what have I done?" he aiked. On a third O 'casion, ''Ii it anything c -mr ared with what Ch r et has done?" "I'hey cal me lucky," Metteroich reports bim to have often said, "because I am able ; it is weak men who accuse the strong of good for tune." When his sisters Bought honors as due to their relatioLship Napoleon curtly said to them, "One would think from your pietensions, ladies, that we had Inherited the crown from our farrier." Napouoh tbi Little, Louis Na poleon fancied bimself a great gen eral. He was with great difficulty diaeuad-d from taiing tbe command of the French army in. tbe Crimean War. At Plomhierea ha aaid to Count Cavour, "Do yon know there are bot thn e men in all Europe? One is myself, the second is yen, and the tbirdts one wnose name (B smarck, no doubt) I will rot mention." Damibl WaaTia. Trie great ex pounder of the American Cons itu t on waa, in genera), too well poised t)thiw van:ty, whatever Ie might feel. He, howeve. wrote early to hi' father, tayinv, ' I Uel a rrompting witbiu me that t-lls trie there is eometbing bet er for me than to bs a clerk of rourt. My mind is made op " On amther occl.P, bting in court, he was re minded tbat he waa assailing a dictum of Lord Camden's. -He t imed lo the Judge and admitted it, I u' added : "Bat, may it pleaw your toner, I differ from Lud Camden." Th mas Jarriaeori calm y obaerved (of p r one iutt-res ed n the stu ty of eglis ation and the I k.)-"They w ll find that tie l"adin; and moit im portant laws of that day ware pra d 'red bv mveelf i nd carried chieflr bv bjy efforts; euppo t-d, hdeed, by ab e arid fat hful coacjutors, very effective as seconds, bnt who would not bave taken toe field as lea4ers." Loan By bom Accord n to L-igh Hant tbe poet angrily re urnd a box of pills to an spotaecary be- ause tbe packet waa directed to Mr. Bjr.m in stead of Lird Byron. He said, "I awoke one morning and found mvself famous." "I am like the tigr," ha declared; "if I miss tbe first spring I go grumbling back to my jungle asalo; bu if Idoit.it 1b crushing." On another c cession be wrote to Moore (1817), and, after saying tbat he did not think literature his vo cation, added: "Bot you will see tbat I will do something or oiber that, like the c smogony or creation of tbe world, will pum'e the philoso phers of all ages." It is believed tbat he thonght to achieve military success and to become Kins oi i-ereece, Mabqabit Fullkk. This remarka ble woman is reported to have said (when Quite young, happily) : "I have now met ail the intellects of this coun try, and find none comparable to my own." It should r-e a conrolattoa that an English woman, Frances Anne Kemhle. bassaid things almoet as vain Nathaniel Hawtbobni This emi nent man bad bis ebare of pride, but it was sometimes the pride thatapia I.umilitv, as when he says in tbe pre face to Twice Told Tola: "Tbe su hor has a claim taoue dittinc'ion which, as cone of lis literary brethren will care abcut disputing it with him, he must not be afraid lo ninntion. He was for a good many years the ob senrost man ol letters in America. Db Samuel Johnson Tbe great lexicographer, said innumerable ego tistical things. One of them ia about the ifainWer. "Mjr ether worka," he said,"a e rare wioe and water, bnt mv Rambler ia pure wine." Ibe world as Mr. Morrill oonerves, has thought differently. Once Johnson called out ataclubwith ltfty exultation: "Ob, man tell yon, gentleman, a very great thing 1 The Empresi of Russia has ordered the Rambler to be translated into tbe Ruesian language, so I shall bs read oa tha banks of the Wo'gi. Horses boasts that his fame would ex tend at far as the banks of tbe Rhone, now the Wolga is further from m than the Rhone was f om U rrace." Olivib QoLDbMiTH. This admirable writer ia said to bave beea jealous cf beauty even in tbe otber sex. When the people of Amsterdam gathered round a balcony to look at tbe Mitses Hornerks he crew impatient and said peevishly, " there are places where I also am admired." Dr. Johnson, wbo, like most monologitts, bated to hear otber people converse, sa d cf Goldsmith, it will be lemeubered, ibat he wrote like an angel and talked like a poor poll. It ia one of the oddest among our"tdd anecdotes oi egotism in high places that a man so uncommonly ngly as 'Gold.-mith should have piqued bimself aa de scribed on his personal appearance. AILLIAM tHiBLM MAl!llAV.-rACl on are of course, though no more than singers, among tbe vainest ol nibn, Mbcreadv actually wrote oi nis own playing of "Macbeth" tbat it was a none piece ni art, Edwin Fobbest. Tbe American ' raced ian was more wary of sell praise, He e. however, is an anecdote not given by Mr. Morrill, aud which we have never seen in print Some syco phant satd to. bim, "Why, torre-t, vou're nnt an actor vcu'ie an institu tion." Forreet liked at limes to repeat the olea ant saving. Wha evt-r else may be the lesson conveyed by these interesting extracts thev cermn'v eniorce a vaiuaoie les ron of modesty. Tbe lerson is needed by nine out of ten I us. A iMle re fi ction wi.l b irg home to mos-t sun eible men and women tbe truth tbat tbey habitually sin, sorre more, of course, come It si. in tbe way of petty vanity. That reflection will ai rer ta'nly convince euch perso' B thpf they nit only ( Bend others but it net a grave iiimyoa ih'm'ev-s by auch an exhihitit n. For our e-lf love ever wounds the eelf love of other?, end vanity is the dry rot tf the soul. Undoubtedly there is peril tbat in avoiding S.'vlla we stumble on Cha ybdis. bhe.ll a man wbo knows hia own powers, is consntnns ot bis B rong grusp of a given subject, feels that he has gone through tue mm ot m 1 nail Awnn,nnn k M n tl r l a I, 1 1 m iiviu rjippiiouii-, y u , u o vnt'u w wi der a bushel and hoid his peice? We say no; but even a Jam s- f a sertion may be m-deetly puti ndsi gam the true end of all tinman ai tion, which ie, through all the grind aud at ri tiona and qualification if c rcum- stauces, to do mor good than harm. T aLi Love. I law a face In the atrreta tonlaht, Tbat bionaht np the buried rar Ibe lace " the woman I inikht bave wed And it fillnri m kn&rl w,th tjnirai For abe loved me wall, and I lured her tee, But a ah idnw fell o'er cur way I And I linked mjr fU wlih tame one elae, And abe la mr wife toda;. Lent rears hare paaaed, and kut few re- gieia llava linrarftd aronnil mv hnart. For the wile I have wed la food and true, , And acta a w-mianlj part. I dare nnt think I had happier been With the iml Srat lav m mr Toath. For ahe I bare wed ia a traanre of raoe, And naa aerved me with lore ana train. Bat the face that I aaw In the atreeta tonltht In my aoul aao'ii dreama baa alirred, Tbat I t-hrlek be ore my wile'a kind aao, And am atuns by each teoder word 1 And th ch lirn wbo troop amund ray knee And deem moat eond and wiae, Lilt a renk of the thmiihta that trouble me ur tne teara tbat oedim my eyea. Were my old love wed, we'l tb-n, perbapa, All tbaaa thrtuvhti nnlA iftun dinaiuate. And yet, bad her fre an enianed It, 1 tear, Tba man the had d T .hnald hate. Can her heart have b-n tr ie to ihi paat, While mine baa 'rtah an horaica aoufhir I nu-t not kbink that, lent a breach in thr leaoe of tuy heart about! ha tvrouabt. . iin,...al flow would It have been bad wa wed T jji t-Uoulil 1 hapi-ler be, or w-,nld abut Ood knowai but tbia tinth I ato bound to roaiea, My wile ta a dear and a true wife to me. 'Til not Iron what might have beea bat trem what ia That we now hare to father ifellc ht, Aad ', my old love, not the wlie ef my heart, Will be firat la my drean-a tonUht Jnrni Aerta'ay. A DeaMtavaMMl TrMeety. Diadwcoo, Dak., November 27. Early this morning a drunken tinker nnmd Craft entered a saloon at Biur ets with a revolver in each band and held up everybody, finally shooting tbe bar tendrr, Puck Patterson, in the abdomen. He returned an hour later and attempted the same proceeding, wben everybody opened fire on him. lie was hit several time, but it la not known witn what result Paterson will probably die. ZjJtm"i '"Z . ".a. Jmmmmmmam NOVEMBER 28, 18S6. L0CUfR4ILR01I)H!SI0RY. J AXIS C. JOXK R.r. BBIXKLEY, XILTO!) BKVWN Aad Oilier Worthies Recalled by Thtl.' Cnlabnrer and Frlead, J. T. Trtisvant. To the Editor of the Appeal: Your ed 'orial of Thanksgiving morning, omits tba names of aeveral g ntlt-meo count cted with tbe con tt uciun of some of tne Memphis roads mentioned. The two ahleet and m st earnest advoc tes t the Mem phis and Obarle-too road wre O iv. James O. Joois and R 0. Brinkley. Tbe latter gave liheialy if his wealth and the former of his e'oquence and energ. N.ithtrTopp nor myself had mm-h to do) it'i ranvM-inir f, r it, ex cept for tbe $500,(0 1 auhsf-ribedbr the city the yearaf er Memph s and South Memphis became one corpc ration. When the vote waa taken it waa found tbat the new citr had sobecr.b d 10 per rent of ber taxblx wea'th, which, in 185.1, waa $5,000,000. 1 p eenme no tt'jerc ty in the union can pieaenttuth an example of put lie spirit- The thief figure io the Mobile and Ohio road, from the building of which MempMj was deetined to suffer and yet suffers, was Judge Milton Brown, of Jackson, - Tenn. He was a very able man, and aroused a spirit of enthusiasm on tbe line of his road in thatS.ats (from Columbus to Cor inth), but was very hoe i e to tba Memphis and Ohio project, which I started tome two or three years after, and which now connects Memphis with Louisville, Cincinnati and all the Lake and Noith Atlantic cities by di rect lines. Subsequently the Missis sippi Central road was star'ed, under the auspices of Mr. Goodman, the father of our late fellow citlisen, Wal ter Uoodmao. I think Mr. Goodman was presi dent of a bank at Holly Springs, and all remember him as an able finan cier and accomplished c tisen. The Mississippi Central waa probab'y slatted beranee tbe Memphis snd Charleston did not run through Holly Spring'. Jones, Tate and Brinkley were opposed to any chango of route. Topp and myself advora ed the Holly Sprints line, and had it been adopted Memphis would have avoided all dis crimina'ioa made aaatnt-t her and the late toad to II. illy Springs wou'd havs been in blast thirty yeas uo The Mi S'ssippl and Tennrssee road comes next in order; and no two men deserve si much cred'tas my friends Fr.-nk White and Calvin F. Vance. They sometimes insisted tbat Trpp and myself should gi down tbe line and eat some barbecued pips and mut ton and make a speech. HuttoWhle and Vance will our people always be chirflf indebted lor their direct line to N w Orleans. I wa hammering at the Memphis and Ohio road for nearly two yeaa bef r getting up the amount of sub scription, on its Itnn needed to secure the State aid of $10,00 J per mile, with whica to buy iron, engines, etc., and during tbat time (In 1863 or 1854) I was sent to Nashville to indues tbe Lglsla- tuie, tben in session, to authorise the Governor to indorse the bonds of tbe city of Memphis, which had, the year belore, voted $300,000 to the Memphis and Little Kock railroad. It took month's lobbying, but tbe Legislature took Memphis by tbe band tben, and told tbe Governor, Andrew Johnson, to indorse tbe bonds. Johnson did indorse tbe bonds, but against bis judgment. That aid liom Memphis, backed by the State, saved the Little Rock road. I may be pard. ned for saying that at a small meeting of cltis -ns, held in the upper room of K. A. barker 4 uo s r tore, on Front stree, a few doors south of Madison corner, the Rev. Frank Owens, Tom Gholson and myself were appointed delegates to attend a rail road convention to be be d st Little R ick on the 4th day of July, 1852. We were three days on tbe boat aground now and tben; but it waa a big cooventioo for the times. Owen woikt-d np his Methodist friends, while Gholson and myself, with Pike, wbo took charge of ns, messed the snners a numerous branch of hu manity in tbei-e primitive days. Pike drew up tbe chaiter f-r the Memphis and Little Rock road and it passed the next Legislature. After tba war.with Brinkley, Forest, Greenlaw and Topp, I went to L ttle Rock during the serslon of the Legis lature, in 167 OS, and we got toe leading members of that body in agree to pass such a S atereilroad law. I remained there till tbe bill be came a 'aw. Th e Little R ck road was always a favori e en'erpr.se with my friend Topp, for his long and sagacious head bad taught bim th-t Araausaa was to be the Egypt of Memphis. It 1 oks so yet, when one ses that, np to da e. the Memphis and l, it e work road has brought here nearly teice as raanv bales of cnttou as anv other road sli ce September 1st. Why tbe Memphis aud Kansas C ty should claim priority of right for building our bridge one tan nut well see, .But tbe truta is Mr. Lih Tay lor baa proven himself to be a far more earnest advocate of the Kansas City road than of Memphis; and lam very much inclined to think that tbe illustrious descendant of Abraham, Isaac, Eian and Jacob (especially Esau) got Taylor's head "in cbanceiy ' before be awent to Washington and mesmerised him, Twoiit do to Ques tion my corjed are, for, as Presdnnt Polk need to ray, ''Old documents are dangerous things." Ia a week or so I may ask permis-lon to eay something more about the great State lying west of the river, and about tbe bridge which Poindexter Dunn rightly says shall never be under the control of any one railroad aa long as he .baa a vote. Is tbere not a great bonatu attached ti tbe control of that road? It reems so; or one road would not so per latently claim tbe right to build and manage it. I. T. tbizivant. Norauaaaa, 1MB. A RboeB)r NenlilMl In Blladlvg af" alrua.a:aMAaae4lM OCuioaoo, III., N ovember 27. A dis patch was received today from Laot. Corbett, of the schooner Ve'ropolU, dated Elk Rapids, announcing that his vessel went ashore at 3 o'clock this morning in a blmdiiig snow storru, about three miles s iuth of Old Mis sion, and that she was scuttled ts pre vent her from gjing to piecea. Ibe tchooner is exposed to a fierce nor i Il ea t wind, bnt a wrecking expedition to relieve ner is on the way irom Hbebovan. She waa loaded with Iron and lumber, and waa bound for Chi cago. It is takea for granted that the crevf escaped unharmed. mt Baaalaa DlpUwaato. Cohstamtihoplm November 20 1 he Saltan gave) audience to lay to Gen. Kaalbars. Tbe latter started lot Odessa. Loanm, November 2ft. Baron da S'axl. tbe RuS'Un Ambneedo, has sU-ted for Uu Petersburg. He will vialt Berlin for a few days. NEW FIRM. FLOYD k CO. ((JOCnSORS TO C. BT. BBIICH), f OfakU Dinner, Toilet and Chamber Sets in Great Variety. BAR GOODS A SPECIALTY. awAaoala rr th rlreratd URKIIIWOOD VITRIFIKR CHINA, apnea ally . aa fnr MnHi. Wtimrwl im ai.wtnil. f AfDLBOH HILL, President. W. !f . W1LUBJSOI. TWw naMfllsaa. H. J. ITH5, .Caaklar. " MempIUs Citr Fire & Genl Ins. C& A CtUBKAI. Wtmn AM atABIBI BVUVaVM. A QUARTER OF A KIILUON'DOLLARS FULL PAID CJUTTiU xsxnstTraongaiBi Oq? IO rtadlaiAn 8troBt, ITIenpkla), TeiiiLi Woods & Swoope, Buggies, Wagons and Harness, NANCE COTTON PRESS, IIAllROlTlt GINS, Nteaui KngliiOM, fftHthlncry ol All D?Rorip(lonfs Ko. aS9 SFQnvn ST MFMPHTH TFTWWJ, HILL, FONTAINE & GO. Cotton Factors and Wholesale Grocers HILL, FOiTAINE & GO. Cotton Factors. Commission Oerchants, Ho. HO Dfith Uln t.. Mt. Tx.ala. IV. t nowmiE. COTTON 34 and 3G Iff mil no n L. D. MULLIN8, of laU J. R. Sodwla A Oo. JAB. T0N0I, laU of J. W. Caldwell A Oe MULLINS & YONGE, Cotton Factors SCommission nerchants No. 1 Ifoward'w Row, Cor. Front and Union, Nftmphin. Irani M Capital, $200,000. Surplus, $25,003, la Ba BtDWIH, Pretn. i. at. WUIMu'ft, fiwe-Presn. C O.KAIII, tawtwa) 'JaSoawaraft off i. M, HOOI M di VIII V. wiLtktfloa. Mn iKMiHTiav, 67 fi, 6i BarA afasiaiiaary BBaa) SMatM ml l v. a. aaraa, lawaa arivaaa Smal 1L001 0UT Confections, Olacos, Nnngat Curameln, French Fruit Olaees. Creuni Hon lions, Fine French Handmade Cream j and - Pon Uons, Chocolates, Ices and Nougatine. Too eaa And theae gooda "AT RBTAIL," la aar iiuantltUe, at The refers & Hawrio Co.'s Retail E tabllshmcnt, Io. 43 Jdlerwon Street, Thea are the Ineat Gonfeotiona that the 1 1 ptirflba'e. awrTry Onr "few CreHiii I .oaf lellHon.w-wai S. N. WTlfl. b. a. (ocfiuaoM TV ULolesalo Grocers K- II 1-2 ind 13 Union E. WITZESAKTHs Co. Wholestale Dealers and I'ubllailiert, IHIotolo Bolo Aienta for the following Flrat-Claaa Inatrarsentat STEINWAY and KNABE 1TANOS Kranich & Bach, Gabler, and VYheelock. OllO ANN Clough & Warren, and Smith American. aver A NIW 7-OOTAVB PIANO FOR il .- WiHt for Oatalogna... lwoe. l hihI NaM-oiuI Mlreef, Hfemr'1'1. LlRnilL&DfflBURY, (HUCCKHH0H8 To:aMRISi: DIEHI.I, HiHvr a; iiiiiii a;mh voTrTi,isR.N or Lager Beer, Cider, Champagne Cider, Wtiaoral Water of all flarnra, and XXX Brlfi.nl Utnurr Alo. KtrPUKK arPLS CIDKa, (a Barrla aad Hll Barrel!, a apeoiaJty.M No. oa Front Nireet eieMiit.lHw. TftwiieewaaMa. W.F.TMIiORfiCO Cotton Factore and Commission Blcrchanta, 1 - No. 8U Frrtit iHtrtwt rornwr ot Wonroe, MinphK Tean.g 6 NEW GOODS. nware N. I. 1IOWDKI, 0S.SC FACTORS, HI., t 9S3militai, Tenn. of JOlara torsh ill, HOODBAB. Tiwaaa. a aoawrl aWataaZ t Umm ta CXXI llnnn. Aai - - MTM Oppoatlie Their Fnetorj. Menipbia Publle hare erer had the opportunity irioia. w. m, DO AX. aTBoa, boab a cmj and Cotton Fictoro Street, Camphls, Ttaa.