Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-12-22

choice SI.70. Shors-30 bushels S32 per tun.
Sau-5O sacks coarse $3.50. SugGr-93 hhds 4,
Al and 54c, 80 hhds Al, ) hhds 53G7c, 5 hhds
3Ic, 70 hhds 4a5c, 6 bids &c, 81 hhds &c, 100
hhds 3Ia7c. Molasses-150 bbls choice, from
levee, 25c, $50 bbls24c, 100 half bbls 29c. Cot
tOn-l25 bales ?. t. Tennessee BOndS-6 per cents
due 30 and '95, July coupons attached $4,000
at Coo.
The aggregate receipts by railroad and steam
boat yesterday were ~ SACKS bran, us sacks
and 20 bbls beans, 8 kegs butter, 547 sacks corn,
400 sacks cotton seed, 3 head cattle, 9 bbls ce-
ment and plaster, 80 bags rye, 200 bushels coal,
IO5 sacks coffee, 20 cases dry goods, 9 sacks
dried fruit, as boxes and IS bbls eggs, 81 sacks
and 1910 bbls -four, Is bales g%unnies, % boxes
glass, ISL hides, 81 head hogs, 80 packages
hardware, "a tuns iron and steel, : Kegs and 4
bbls lard, 10000 feet lumber, 1896 bbls mOlas-
ses. % sacks oats, s. boxes oranges, 10 bbs lin
seed oil. 234 sacks and 81 bbls potatoes, 205
tierces rice, 9S bbls and 7S2 hhds sugar, 100
sacks salt, 1913 boxes soap, 5 hhds, ? boxes, and
> packages tobacco, SIS sacks wheat.
The receipts OF cotton during last week were
IS bales. all of which went 10 interior points ;
$50 bales were shipped also for interior points.
The total receipts of the season are $3.50 bales
a falling off of 1921 bales from last year.
The total shipments are G7l bales-a decrease
of 1926 bales. Stock on hand. 1850 bales.
The regular monthly meeting of the chamber
will be held in the hall at 81 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
The New Orleans Bulletin, of Friday, reports
more inquiry for cotton, but very little was offer
ing at the ruling rates. There was more inquiry
for tobacco, but many factors Withdrew their
stocks, being unwilling to sell before the receipt
of further political news. Sugar sold at Pa
SIC, ior fair to fully fair. Molasses 19d02Oc for
prime to choice. The later intelligence mentioned
above shows an advance has taken place on this
quotation. Flour was only going of at retail
sales at SO for s~uperfne and $ll for extra
Yesterdays dispatches show that even on retail
sales not more than 1915 for super1ine was real
lied. The Bulletin says: There appears 10 BE-
very little competition among sellers, and the
particulars Of even retail sales are suppressed.
Sales of corn at s5e Coz mixed and SOC for white.
Oats SI25. In salt the sales were; 200 sacks
screened, in Liverpool sacks, in two lots, at 81,
and 100 Liverpool coarse at the reduced rate OF
81 378-market somewhat unsettled by the po-
litical news, and anticipaions OF the blockade
being raised, but holders protesting to adhere to
their previous pretensiOns."
The New Orleans Crescent money article Of
Friday, says:
The toesin of war, the expected proceedings
Of Great Britain, coupled with the last intelli-
gence from Lincolndom, seemed 70 have a very
happy effect on the general money market to
day; SO much so that borrowers had the pleasure
Of debating their own terms, particularly on
frst-class securities wheR rendered. The ex-
change market also experienced the European
intelligence. Outdoor sterling tGmbled down
at railroad speed-l20GI 22 were the highest
tenders for outside bills. The next intelligence
from Europe may send it down to ll0Ull5.
English politics have more influence on our ex-
change market than most people are aware Of.
The Richmond papers have stated That the
Confederate Congress has recognized the feast.
bility and merit of adopting a new and philoso-
phical system Of weights and measures for the
COnfederscy, q resolution on the subject having
been introduced by Mr. Tyler, and referred 10 a
committee. 4 measure Of this kind would be
most beneficial in its workings. Ali who have
a knowledge of the confused system Of currency
IN vogue in England where four farthings make
a peuny. snd tsrel0e pence a shilling, and tuoHtv
shilling p poup,19. are aware how simple and
beautiful is our system Of decimal currency,
when compared with it. The s4:2e beautiful
simplicity may be introduced into our weights
and measures, by applying the decimal system
to them. But the beauty and philosophical ba-
sis Of the system are its least recommendation
it is practically valuable, and is every way SUI
perior to the system, or rather the nO-system, the
confusion, that exists in the old English stan
| dards we have thoughtlessly followed, and it in
sures the highest possible degree Of accuracy in
book keeping. The present arbitrary, complex
and confused tables Of " troy weight, "apoth-
sesies weight "syoirdBpois" weight, and,
IN the customs Of commerce, " wool weight, and
elsese ard butter we ght as well as our mea-
| sures. " long measure, ' " cubicor solid measure
afopd msssurs, "dry measure" aud wool
Measure. sfs wholly .nAsfsusibis, except that
they are in uss
The French have acomplete and philosophical
decimal system which, in any change, It would
| be vel TO initiate, If not - adopt. As a iunda-
mental standard, the French system takes a
" ausdrant Of The meridian" that is The distance
from the pole 70 the equator. This distance
having been determined with the greatest care
| the Ten miuiouth part Of It is taken rs the basis
Of MEASURE, and named c metre. The metre IS
equal 10 1921 English feet, or 1887 inches.
From the metre every measure, larger or smaller,
than itself. increases or decreases by ten times
In the same way as 10 mills make a cent, ~
Giants a dime. and 10 dimes a dollar. 10 milf
metres make a centimetre, 10 centimetres q deei-
metre. 10 decimetres a metre, 10 metres a deca-
me,re. sc. In measures Of capacity the tare Is
the base. il is a cubic decimetre, aud is equal to
21I35 English pints. With this, as with the
measure of distance abOI e, 10 milliitres make a
csntilitre. 10 centilitres a decHtre, 10 decilitres q
Etre. 10 litres a decalitre, &c. IN weights, the
base is A gramme, which is equal to the weight
If n cubic centimetre of distilled water, of the
temperature of distilled ice. As before, 10 MILL
orammes make one centigTamme, 10 cent?
prammes a decigrsmme, 10 decigrammes
gramme. 10 grammes a decagramme, &c. How
easily a knowledge of oil weights and measure