Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-09-24
ITEMS OF TfEH DAY,

The cost Of maintaining the 5000 federal
prisoners 10 Richmond for daily bTsac' alone
is S125-ueariy $1,000 per month
The Mobile papers of Wednesday publish a
letter from Governor No re, Of Alabama, CALI
ing upon the banks 10 suspend specie pay
ments.
The committee Of safety at Berwck's bay
call upon the planters for hundred negroes
70 throw MP Notifications at Brasaear ard Ber-
wick
Miss King. Young lady living in the neigh
/ borhood Of BreoEbaven, Miss, committed sH-
icide on Wednesday last. Ine Bro3kdaVen
.f9U0cqte says the cause Of her self destruction
was domestic Affections.
The Petersburg CVa.) Express understands
that Capt. Wan. F. Lynch, Of The navy, has
been ordered to North Carolina TO suparintend
! the coast defensss of that State.
The Dog River Factory at Mobile was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday last. Ibfee
or four hundred hands are thrown out OF en-
ployHens By the lees Of the factory. There
was some Insurance on tie properly. Mir.
Peek, the owner, is Political prisoner at tue
North.
Seward. in a letter nnb iSied in he North
ern papers, saYs the State Department is in
possession OF reasonable correspondence writ
ten by AireTRon s Sullivan, one of the coun-
sci for the Savanuab pTjvateerF, who was late
~ sent Q Fort Lafayette.
DaRisi 5. Dickinson, the incorruptibls Yam
kep. has been nominated by the Black Rcpgb-
hcaus Of New York, for State Attorney. They
know their man.
The Carrollton .3laBamiaH says Mrs Lncy
Howard, OF that place, elghty-seven years old,
has knit three pair 0t socks for the soldiers
she has seven grandsons ia the Confederate
army.
The Paris papers record the death Of Gen.
Tom. Thumb as having occurred in cirCum-
stances Of great indigence, Al one Of The hospI-
tails of ihat city.
The Bank Of New Orleans has loaned he
Southern CoBfsderscy SlSO,00O: the STATE
I Bank Of Louisiana, 500. 600 ana the South
ern Bank Of New Orleans mas loaned the State
Sl50,0OO.
The Governor OF North Carolina has issued
notice TO the agents OF the various railroad
compai les prohibiting their conveying bacon
and leather out Of tue State, under the penalty
/ Of a heavy fine OF imprisonment.
The Baltimore .4HsricaB, one Of the TecTeant
! journals OF the South, says tbe LiHColu troops
/ are erecting batteries 70 command that city
I upon Federal Hill, and are give n to understand
/ thas, uPgn the approach OF Confederate
/ force, they iEtend 10 burB it to tho ground.
/ When Mayor Berrelt, Of Washington, waH
admitted 20 Fort Lafayette, linooln's Bas-
( tile, bis bsr and whissers were OF raven
! bus. Since then they have faded graz
uallv, and now are amos white. At first
I It was believed that grief had produced the
change; but Mr. BerFett makes toe assertion
that bis altered appearance Is eccasioued by
lack Of haiT dye.
A late London paper contains the following
advertisement: a gentleman who is a5ot5
to leave the house in which he resides, and be-
ing desiTogs to return it to bis landlord in the
same condition in hich be found it, viii pay
fair price for tive hundred full grown rats,
an acre Of poisonous weeds, and a cart load Of
rubbish the weeds 70 be planted in the gar
den the RUBBISH to be lef. ca the doOE step,
s0d The rats suffered to run loose through TIE
house. address," sc,