Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-03-11

4 woman has been arrested in San Francisco
for bathing herself in whale oil
Five thousand children gavs coucsrt in New
Orleans on the 22d, ult.
Gen. Sickles is to 60 te Arkansas TO attend 70
the election in that province,
A lot of psElor furniture, intended for JEFF
Davis, was captHred with the Cumberland.
TAs New YorkeTs ara pEOdigiOusly Tufdsd at
the protest against rufiiRg.
A child has been born sTmless and legless Of
Western parents II lives and thrives.
The New York assembly nas indefuitsly post
poned the Niagara Falls ship canal bill.
Over {, 600 applications for pensions has been
made since the commencement Of the war.
The Senate hss,1nAuimously confirmed Gen.
Grant a. iieutenSn t-general, aud IS msjSr gen
era in the regular army from July 4, 1868.
Meade, Sherman, Mcpherson and Thomas
were confirmed as brigadler-gsneTals in the reg
ulsy army
Captsin Flynn, held as 3 hostage in Rich
mend, has be n exchanged.
Il is rumsrsd that PArrsgui has been ordered
to Charleston to supeTsede DAblgTen in the
command Of the iron clad feet.
Tho provost marshal-gsneFsl has announced
that new draft Would be necessary IS soon as
the present one is flled.
Apprehension is felt of another raid on Alex
andris and the railroad Mosby was reported
ct Falls church On Tuesday.
Lincoln has eommused the sentence Of all de-
serlers condemned to be shot, TO imprisonment
at the Dry Tortugss during the war.
The New York Times, slluding to the defsat
in Florida, ssya: " The lighting was heroic be-
yond expression, and IS the thrilling details are
cad, many sigh will be uttered that so much
yalor resulted ia discontinue"
Geo. Thempscn, the English AboIitionist, had
public reception in New York on his arrival.
Fremont and others made spssches.
Big. Gen Croker, Of Iowa, Is reported TO
have died 81 Jackson, Mis-, Of wounds received
in q skirmish, in sdySncs of SheTman'S srmy.
L. V. Summars, lieutenant ia Qlsntrelrs
command, was taken prisoner and brought into
Fort Smith = week or two ago.
It is ordered that su persons discovered in
Nashville, VII have not been VseeinAted, shall
be sent outside the city limits. L seems thst
the smallpox is increasing in that place.
Two thousand four hundred citizeus have
taken the oath of allegiance at Little Rock,
Ark Five thousand privates and eleven COM
missloned officers Of the rebel army also have
done the game thing.
Eight hundred and ffty thousand dollafE is
paid per year BY the Government for carrying
the overland mail to CAlifornia.
It is suggested that IS Lincoln recently lost
all his fine carriage aud riding horses, six in
number the contractors have now q good oP-
pOrtuuity of mEnitsstiDg their grslituds for past
fayoTs. -
A large number of clerks in the different do
paItments st Washington are women. They
make the very best kind of clsrks-bsing al
ways prompt and faithful in their stta-aRucs
to their duties.
The pirate bark Tuscaloosa has been seized
by the British authorities at Cape Town, Africa.
The eommsndsT, Cspt. Love, entered protest
and tbs case is to be tried in the admiralty court
4 CkGEes to Make Eoasy. oAe hundred dol
lars viii DO paid at this efiee for certified copy
of Old Abe's Joke or story about the present
predicameDt of Gen. S6srmans foIees.-N Y.
Herald
OHs Hundred Dollars Rs,osTd.-We cffsr the
above reward for an authentic version CT Old
Abe's joke upcn the Florida expedition, where
thousand lives were lost in ths attempt to get
three electoral votes I! must be very tuEDy.-
~ Y Herald.
4 LGTgs Rss0Grd for & Small JOks. We ofsr
to pay one hundred dollars for a correct version
of Old Abe's joke upon the retrest Of General
Smiths cavalry force sent cut to relieve Sber-
MANN. Y Herald.