Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-08-27

out into the various channels Of Industry and
enterprise, and labor viii feel its inVigoTating
ilh1ence. There is Do reason now WHY our
country should not take a new start in it's
career OF prosperity. All hat is necessary is
confidence, courage, and Persevering industry
A NEGRO WoMAN Daowss HERsELr AND
Two CHmDREN.-A negro woman, belonging
70 B, K. Rodgers, Esq residing on the banks
OF Little Red river, near West Point, White
county, drowned herself and her two youngest
children, one aged three and the Other five
years, On Mondsy morning last. She also at
tempted 20 drown her Oldest child, a boy aged
eleven years. It sesns that the woman bad
been threatened with correction on Sunday for
d~isObeying her master, and that on Monday.
morning, about daylight, she carried her two
youngest children to the river and threw them
in returning, she carried her older child to
the river, threw him in while asleen. and
plunged IN herself The boy was awakened by
the water, ana succeeded 10 getting OUT. He
returned 70 ne house and awakened bis mas
ter, stating that bis mother bad drowned her
SELF. The bodies Of the woman and her two
children were recovered in less than an hour
from the time the boy returned to the houss.
Mr.. Rodgers is a gentleman Of noble and gen.
erous nature, proverbisl FOR bis kindness to his
servants, and the woman must have been suf-
fering from aberstiOn OF mind, as a threat to
correct her, would scarcely have caused her to
commit so horrid a deed.
Bot afew weeks since, a negro girl belonging
ing to Mai r. H. Poe, residing m the same
neighborhood, drowned herself in Little Red
river, under pretty much the same circum-
stances.-Dss frk Cifizsa, dag. n.
NOTABLE SIears IN ST. PErERssuEs-
The buildings are az o. brick, rOugh-east and
painted either yellow or white. The only hne
building, which is considered the best in the
world, h the Church Isaac, situated 10 an epsn
square, immediately opposite the Hotel Napo-
leon. II is built entirely q polished dark
marble, the capitals and bases Of The columns
being Of bronze, the domes. one main and four
smaller ones, are covered with gold, the cost Of
which was s.. SOC, 600 SIS 100000 OF gold in
the Interior, N decorations, &c, aud the whole
cost Of the building SIS 100000 (ssventy-tbrse
millions six hundred thousand ~GOllars.) Inside
the building are ten columns Of malachIte,
.forty-eight feet high and Eve feet j. diameter
at the base. The church is filed with grand
and exquisite paintings BY the best modern art
lists, ali Of them scriptursl. The main entrance
door, which is very massive, Of bronze In 6as-
20 T~tlieU0, ccSt over $4,000. I heard service
10 the church, which is [" GTsaS.o Il is slWays
open, and constantly filled wish all kinds AID
conditions Of people, who go there 70 worship.
It was eonsecrsted early in June, and was six
" years in building.
There ie much interest excited IN visiting
the Lighthouse built by Peter the Great, which
is situated on the river Neva, within a short
walk from the hotel. Il is about twenty-h five
BY twenty feet, one story high For prsssrVa-
ton, It lie covered over with a house OF stone.
leaving a space OF several feet an around it..
A boat, built by bis own hands, il ia the en-
closure. The house has but two rooms, where
you see all bis furniture, tools, &c IN one of
these rooms he received al his ministers.
The Hermitage is a place OF great interest.
and Sss built By Constantine, as a place Of
resort to shut himself oct from the world. II
contains many Valuuble paintings and personal
effects OF all the Eupsrors and Emprssses. All
OF Peter the Creates tools are here seen, his
state carriage, Se; clothes worn By hin also,
a plaster Cost tskeh after death. We were
politely Sdown through ihe Hermitage BY our
eountr Sman and MHisler, Mr. Seymour, who
very kind to rs, and who also gained VI
I, access to the Imperial Palace, accompanying
us through