Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-03-23
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The Louisville Journal says three more OF th(
gunboats ftted cut at Cincinnati are allnos
ready to leave for some point more Immediately
in the vicinity of the war. This viii make In al
thirteen vessels of this character sent from that
city since the beginning Of December. Tbe
greater number have been despatched to join
the feet under Farragut, while some few viii
be attached the line destined for protection
/ of the river commerce.
A bill has passed the SEM to Of Western Viz.
ginia authorizing the Governor 10 compel all
persons to depart from the State who aEe dis
loyal to tho United States, and who refuse to
recognise the State of Western Virginia.
The Kansas City Journal says the west end
of the Pacific rosd is being pushed ahead The
iron ia being laid on tho track from Dresden
west, at tie rate Of onethiTd of q mile per day.
Grading is being done between WsTrensburg
and Pleasant Hill and the latter will soon be
reached. This great work will now 90 steadily
onward TO completion.
In reply to a committee Of free negroes from
louisiana, who recently waited upon him with
memorial asking that negroes In that State
who were always Tree might be permitted to
vote, Lincoln said he saw no reAson why intel
| ,igent black men should not vote, but as il was
not military question he would refer It to a
constitutional convention.
The Louisville Journal says II Smith and
GricTson are bravo men, as we have no doubt
they are they must feel tbat there is no mOrs
uncomfortable hell than the situation in which
they find themselves.
The Washington correspondent Of The New
York Times, in his letter of the 25Gh uItmo,
says " Senator Pomeroy returned to-day, and
on appearing in his sest, was congratulated by
4 number of Senators on the celebrated secret
circular. he avows the authorship of it. and
says he will stand or fall by it."
A gentleman of L,uisianR, recently deceased
has left $3.50 600 to be used in establishing 3
weekly paper for the benefit of the blind. So
says Northern paper, without giving this name
Of the donor.
The pisno-forto workmen of New York city
numbering several thousand, are engaged in
another strike. Mechanics in The different
branches of business are doing the same thing
owing TO the eKorbitant price Of life neeeIsAries
The courthouse in Nashville took FIRE on the
Ist inst. The flames were exlinguished before
much injury was done 10 tho building.
The delegates of the Democracy of NeF York
to the national convention embrace the Gbles;
and mist distinguished men of the party in tina;
Slate. Horstio Seymour, Washington Hunt,
Anasa J. Parker, Sanford Z. Church, John J.
Taylor, and Samuel J. Tildon are among them.
And, which is = novelty for New York, there
viii be no cOntesting delegation. The delega-
ton are instructed to cast the vote Of the State
in tho convention as 3 unit.
The spectators in New York ara on the in
crease. The Times says tho cIowd Of outsiders
in William street is now swelling 10 the proper
sion Of the NEST excited times Of last summer
The business is pToiTsctsd to late hou; in the
afternoon, and renewed by many of the opera
tors At the evening exchange On Fifth avenue.
Tho Wisconsin Legislature is seeking some
constitutional modo of furnishing these who
have run away to Canada to escspe the, draft.
The Slate Slnato Of Ohio proposes to take a
step for the suppression of secre! political So
cieties.
The bank committee, ffom New York ei!y
intend 70 lay before tie Ways and Means Com
miaee their views, soliciting modification of
tie national banking law, so that old city banks
may retain their original distinctive titles and
yet enjoy the privileges of The national banking
law.
Representative Alley, of Massachusetts, re-
ported bill for a steamship line between the
United States and Brasil, to perform twelve
round trips yearly tho vessels to be not less
than two thousand tonsi the expense TO be borne
ia part by Brazil the United States share being
limited to $500 600 per annum.
JEFF. Davis coAchman now ornaments the
lecture desk, being announced to speak in Gar
diner, Maine.
The oil wells at Oil Creek, Pa, wero on Ere
on the % inst. Between twenty snG thirty
Thousand barrels of oil had been consumed, and
the Ere was still raging.
The laboratory connected with the military
magazine Z. Q lebec exploded on the morning of
ihe 4lh. The building took fire, and at last
accounts wss burning in close proximity to 3
powder magazine. Ten or twelve pOrsona are
missing.