Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-08

EE Ine New Orleans saws
that even before emancipation the free
creoled people of Louisiana were allowed
the same rights in courts as the white
man. In all civil matters he could sue
and be sued, give testimony for or against
o white man, make contracts, exercise his
trade or profession, make wills or receive
legacies. Under this law some eight or
ten thousand cOlored people have lived in
this city ever since it was established, and
have had full protection ofal their rights,
have been prosperous, happy and r.
speeted; many Of them have grown rich,
audhave proved valuable and productive
members Of society.
nsR- The Richmond Eramiaer is resus-
citated under the proprietorship of H.
Rives Pollard, and +. A. Pollard, its
former active editor, is announced as a
contributor of historical articles, which
are promised to be valuable as afiording
a true and faithful report of what the
South has had hitherto but the imperfect
narratives, which have been written and
published in the Northern press.r E. A.
Pollard will be employed as e%orrespon-
dent from Europe, "in which country he
proposes to write a history of the war.
and 10 form a familiar acquaintance
with the politics of Europe, especially in
connection with American questions and
topics"
ia The Educational Finance Com
mittee of New York report two millions
four hundred and ifty-four thousand
three hundred and twenty-seven dollars
as the amount required to support the
schools for the coming year, Of which
two hundred and sixty thousand eight
hundred and niaety-siX dollars 90 to
the county of New York The estimate
for teachers salaries is n million four
hundred thousand dollars. The cost Of
education in the city is eight dollars per
scholar.
B6| The author Of an ingenious and
dangerous counterfeit fifty dollar green
back was lately arrested at Rock Island,
Ill. He passed one of the spurious notes
at a bank, which was soon afterward de-
teeted, and a detective placed on his
track. The scamp ROsekeans claimed to
be from New York city. His notes were
of the series described by one of the New
York city books.
RAA W. VINCENT Wallace, the eminent
composer, died of dropsy on the twelfth
Of October, at the Chatue de Bagen, in
the Pyrenees. He wa ffty-three years
Of age. The foreign papers also announce
the death of Ernst, the great violinist,
which occurred at Nice on the four
teenth ult. He was fifty one years old.
nsA A Gordon having been established
across the slip that separates Gibraltar
from the main land and no one being
allowed to pass, all trade has been
stopped; the people, to the number Of
two thousand, who depended upOn the
trade, are reported to be in a starving
condition. Thus they are imprisoned on
a rock with disease and want to do their
work.
h A case of some importance was
decided in the County Court at Peoria,
H., the other day. A farm had been
sold with q verbal reservation Of the
growing crops. 1t was held that the
crops shonld go with the farm, as they
could not be secured by a mere verbal
agreement.
aaa. Gov. Anderson has designated
Thursday, November the thirtieth, as a
day Of thanksgiving in Ohio.
a~ The Deputy Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenues has decided that dray
tickets are subject to stamp duty as re-
CENTS for the delivery Of property,
whether signed or unsigned.
ma. The American land system is 10
be introduced in Mexico, 80 that the citi-
Of moderate means can get hold Of a
farm. The public territory is to be sur
veyed into sections and quarter sections
six hundred and forty and n hum
bred and sixty acres.
Rza. By the steamer Java we have
European advices to the twenty-seeond
alt. The political news is unimportant.
Nothing would be done in England
toward the formation of a new Ministry
until after the funeral of Lord Pal
merstOn.
HT John P. Hale's magnificent
4 splurge, " on the occasion of his presen-
-ation as United States Minister to the
Queen Of Spain, is receiving some very
criticisms at the hands of the Re
publican journals. AS a specimen Of di7
,lomatic composition it must unquas-
rank high, asitis the finest eff +,
ort yet made in the line of AEnerican
high falutin.p Z
sar Mrs. Mary o. Sloeum, TIE mother
f Maj.-Geh Slocum, died ind Syracuse {
Monday evening, aged s genty.two :
ears.