Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-25

b. The Nashville Synod is in sessiol
at Huntsville, Ala.
pTDr c. NJ. Russell, an eminen
physician Of Jackson, Miss, is dead.
, b-The news of the death Of KIM
Leopold, her father, reached the Empires
at Vera Cruz.
h- The vote Of the New Jersey Leg
i~sIarure on the Constitutional amend
ment was forty-two to ten.
ba-The troops in Northern Mexic,
have been ordered to cooperate with
Gen. Mejia at Matamoras.
n- The recent French reinforcement
amount to only twelve hundred men, in,
stead of twelve thousand, as before re-
ported.
~ The station house at West Point
Miss, was burnt on the night Of the
eleventh. It contained four hundred
bales Of private cotton.
Ia John FiIley, a young gentleman
Of most excellent family In New York,
has been arrested in New Orleans, on a
charge Of forgery.
NJ A contract for a semi-monthly
line Of steamers between Vera Cruz and
New York, touching at Havana, has
been published.
Br Four hundred bales Of superior
cotton, which readily commanded thirty
two cents, arrived at Vera Cruz from the
interior Of Mexico where IL had been
raised.
BT A gentleman in New Orleans, who
believed himself 70 have been robbed Of
three thousand five hundred dollars on
Wednesday night, found his money in
the possession Of a friend.
IA Returns Of Internal Revenue from
June thirtieth to Saturday last were one
hundred and seventy-nine million five
hundred thousand dollars. The current
years receiptswin unqUesti0nably exceed
three hundred million dollars.
B~ Quite an exciting election was
held in Baltimore by the Corn and Flour
Exchange for a Board Of Directors. The
regular ticket, composed exclusively Of
Union men, was defeated, and the oppo-
sition ticket, made up Of gentlemen Of
opposite ]sympathiesl was elected By a
large majority.
B- The Ministers Of spain and Of Bel
GUM, who accompanied the Empress Of
Mexico to Yucatan, returned immedi-
ately 10 the capital Those Of France
and England accepted an invitation TO
accompany the Emperor and Empress to
~Cuernayaca, calling of at the celebrated
grotto Of Caeahgamilha by the way.
BS~ The exports ofsugar fron the port
Of Cienfuegos, Cuba, the last year,
amount to ~eighty-fye thousand hogs
heads; Of molasses, to seventy thousand.
A letter Of the seventh, from that port,
says the planting region through the
Southern portion Of the Island is very
lively and prosperous, Notwithstanding
she severe visitation Of the late hur-
ricane.
IL Late advices from Mexico report
the political condition Of the country was
more uncertain than al aHy recent period.
The violent measures Of the Emperor
had caused unusual activity among the
guerrillas, and the rumored news of pro-
posed interference By the United States,
bad caused considerable anxiety 10 the
Imperialiasts, and given corresponding
confidence 10 the Liberals.
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5-The Holly Springs Repqrter says
negroes are contracting in that
county, but adds, that nif all the freed
men in the county were now employed
)n the farms, not o4s-half Of the open
and could be cultivated the present year
'or the wsnt Of labor, as several thous-
md Of our best field laborers have left
turing the war, and but few have re-
.urned."