Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-17
TELEGRAPHIC.


Reported for the Memphis Daily Appeal
NEW ORLEANS, April 16 Cotton de.
pressed by foreign news and irregular
better quotations and comparatively
firm. with sales Of 1900 bales low mid
ding, 95c.; receipts since Saturday, 4SJs
bales; receipts to-day, 20s0 bales sugar
and m0lasses nominal; superflne -four
s. 3746B7 80; corn-mixed yellow, sOtg
g5c.; oats, 52G53c.: mess pork, SIS hay
sos tObacco-fair light, l4c.; heavy, &c.,
New York bank checks, discount gold,
% sterling 334; freights unchanged.
Mail contracts are in operation be-
tween Houston and New Orleans, via
Brasbear city. The people are pushing
on direct railroad and telegraph commu-
nication.
There have been fine rains all through
Texas. The frost killed the cotton ia
Baton Rogue and Point Coupee parishes,
and viii have to be replanted. Cotton
seed is in demand. Crsvasse newsis bad.
Chemis crevasse has been abandoned,
and the country Is flooded. Crevasses
feared near MOrgRnzia. The commits
sioners are discussing means Of closing
them.
Letters to the Methodist Conference re-
port Bishop SOule in a dying condition.
The steamer Montgomery, from New
York, has arrived.
A Brownsville letter Of the 9th says
that Cortinas. with q force, is abast 20
miles from Matamoras watching the APP
proach Of Mejia. EscObelas is operating
with Natiagu. Murders and rObberies
continue undated in the neighborhOod
| Of MatamOras and Brownsville.
GALVESTON, April l2.-The Texas
Constitution abOlishes slavery and places
freedmen on an equality with whites
before the law. 1t also gives the Legis-
lature the power 20 guarantee railroad
bonds for iron contracts, TO be submitted
to the people the first Monday IN June
Resolutions endorsing the Presidents
policy were lost -
SHREVEPORT, April 11.-Cott0n dull
receipts light; stock on hand 1900 bales
strict middling fancy, 244c in specie.
Red river is high.
NEW YORK, April l6.-LiverpOOldates
Of the 9Th says the Austria-P russian sltua-
ton is unchanged. There Is nothing TO
confirm the pacific news. French troops
will be Withdrawn from Mexico In three
detachments. the first in November, the
second in March, and the third in No.
vember, 1857. Paris datesof the 4th says
bourse are fiat; rents 67G42. The Hong
Kong tea season is over; total exports
one hundred and fourteen millionpounds5
Shanghai tea quiet; silks inactive.
CINCINNATI, April l6.-FloUr is still
advancing; wheat nsettled-advancing
corn, 53c. oats, Ale. whisky, 3 y
pork, sos %; buckwheat inactive lard,
Isle. groceries unchanged cotton dull.
WAsHINGTOS, April 1.-THE Presi-
dent has nominated Col. Smythe, Presi-
l.-A T.,H-,1 N,#s-na1 panE Fnw Gf,l1a9-
tor of New York, and Samuel G. Court
ney, Southern District Attorney for New
York, vice Dickinson, deceased.
Toronto, April l6.-Orders have been
issued for the whole provincial force to
drill two days in each week.
WASHINGTON, April l6.-Mr. A. II.
Stephens, while before the RecOnstruc-
ton Committee, gave it as his opinion
that the people of Georgia are in favor
of acting under the Constitution as
amended.
PHILADELPHIA, April ia Cape
May dispatch says a bottle drifted ashore
containing a paper, which says the
schooner G. l.. DieSs, of New York, was
lost on the 10Th Of March. All on board
were lost but Ned Conkling and Silas
Rodgers.
E4sTPoRr, March I8.-Further II enian
troubles. The particulars are not re-
ceived.
Foreign French ship Pauline, with seven
thousand bags cotton, was wrecked on
Rio Peal, February 23d. The crew were
saved. It is expected that the ships
cargo is a total loss.
The Brazilian fleet arrived ct Cor
The Allies had not attempted
to cross the Panama, but II will be i'm
mediately undertaken, anticipated with
great loss TO the Allies.
The Buenos Ayres trade is good. Gold,
firm money, scarce farming, prosper
New, YORK April Is. -Cotton firm, 3Sc.;
-four advanced l5c.; corn dull and nomi-
nal sugar dull; Cuba, lltc.; molasses
dull; Porto Rico, 7jc.; pork, 25ic,i /
money easy, 5la6; sterling steady, 7liI
gold, 20.
ST. LOUIS, I5.-Flour, quiet and I'M
changed wheat, advanced corn, irm
and active at sc. @55; oats, He.
Congressional proceedings entirely un-
important.