Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-11-12

The sale q Rufus Choate's library, Just eon-
pleted, by auction, val realize 10 bis family
about SIC, O00-les1 than half its cost.
The Free Loven have emierated from CAL
i%fornIa, and Purchased from The San Salvador
Government a tract Of SOM $1,000 acres Of
good arabic land. at twelve and a haif cents
per acre, at $3.50.
Ordinary paper is 90 scarce in Madrid, Spain,
that several printing Offices ave TO suspend
operations, and the journals press the Govern
men- 20 allow foreign paper 20 be imported
Tree, or al least al a greatly reduced duty.
The daughter Of the proprietor Of a coalmins
10 Pennsylvania, was iEguisitive as to he na-
ture Of he'll. Upon which her father repre-
scented it ~ De a large gulf Of FIRE, Of most pro-
eigious extent. "Pa said she, Couldn't you
GO the devil 20 buy bis coal Of you27
A Paris correspondent says tho Emperor
Napoleon, since bis return from Biauitz, looks
ii and c%8Teworn, considerably aged since Bis
departure, and 90 much stouter 10 figure that
DIG head seems fast sinking into bic shoulders.
IKE people suffering from weakness.
Mr.. II. Poole, who was sent by tho EnsIisb
fore gn Office 20 the Dead sea. to search fcr
nitro, which was reported 10 occur there, has
uturued without success. The region Of
s0dom and Gomorrah viii not furnish one Z
tho most essential sinews of war, and the price
q arfpeter is likely 70 be kept up in spite Of
lhs peace.
Napoleon Hills mindful OF bis unele's for
mer hab.tltion on S. Helena, having recently
q dered The appropriation of $4,000 for the
thorough repair az Longwood House and the
Emparor's tomb as well rs the domain called
tho Vale Of Napoleon, which sum e. to form a
s1eciai item in The budget. Since this Terri
tory was eeded by the British Government.
te Froncl have had at Longrood a resident
comnauilnt at a salary OF $500 a year.
EVrIVcr FA1fTLIEs.-Mr Robert Stephen
SOD leaves 10 family behind him. His wife
died manr years ago, and .he remained a Wild
over. 20 that thc direct line from George Sc
phruson, the eminent English engineer, has
died cut James Watt, the noted British in
FeltlI, ieit DO descendants II appears that
thc men noted for mechanical genius, like
many of those famous in literature, science
and ~coVrTument I'm Great Britain, leave no
children 90 perpet1ate their names. Shaks-
p-sre, Milton, Bacon, Newton, Harvey, Pope,
Mansfield, Pit., Fox, Gray, Cowpor, Collins,
Thompson, Goldsmith, GAY. Congreve, Hume,
Bishop, Butter, Locke, Hobbs. Adam Smith,
Beu-hsmi Davy, ST Joshua Reynolds, Flax
man, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and others we'll
known 90 fame in British annals, have no lin
cal representative now living.
Coer or TIRE war TO PmDMoSr.-The
Opf-ioHe, AZ Turin, thus calculates the cost Of
the late Var 20 Piedmont. The debt which the
latter has consented 20 accept is 210,O00,000
francs; sum TO Be reimbursed 70 Francs. co.
600 COO: expenses cf the war, 130.000,n00
f1r-fcations 10 be raised for the defense Of
he country, 50,000,O00. Total, 500,000,000
francs.
As soon as Congress is organized, the in
ID sizstioD5 commenced az the last session
viii Be revived and vigorously prosecuted By
coupatet committees and there viii be new
ones seriously duplicating officials started.
The President has concluded the portion Of
Die message relating % foreign affairs, and is
row calling upon tho secretaries for the usual
material concernfnr domestic no1icv