Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-08


There are sixty-one oil wells in course
OF construction in the Boutwell, district,
Canada West.
Henry A. Moore and A. R. Wright,
4 Esars., have assumed control Of the Au-
qusta. Ca Chronicle and Sentinel.
The negro troops are 70 beremoved i'm
mediately from the interior Of Georgia.
There viii be a grand celebration Of
Sunday school children in Macon, Ga, on
May day.
The furniture stolen from the Christian
Chapel in Augusta, Ga, some weeks ago,
has been recovered.
Within the limits Of forty-six counties
in Georgia, there are three hundred dis
tileries.
The citizens Of Florida are raising
money to defray the expense Of Maj.
Gees defense before the military COM
mission at Raleigh, N. c.
The United States steamer Convoy was
destroyed by fire Off Pensacola on
Wednesday. A portion Of the crew
escaped in boats. One man was killed
and several injured.
The T~reasurer's books of Franklin,
Alabama, show that county to be in
/ debted to individuals S84O7-a sum that
must be raised by a tax levied on real
estate,
Some interesting vestiges of the an
cient Temple Of Trajan, adjoining his
Forum, have been discovered by the
workmen employed in repairing the
foundations Of the Valentino Palace, at
Rome.
Col. Hawkins, Of this State, is in San
Francisco, Cal, talking for the Radicals.
4 correspondent Of the Maysville Cali
! fornia Express a Y he out-Sumners
Sumner in the violence Of his harangue
and in his abuse Of Democrats and eulOgy
Of a~bolitionism.
All of the newspapers Of Richmond,
Va, have suspended publication, in con-
sequence of the refusal of the printers to
accede to a reduction from 80 cents to 40
cents per 1000 ems for composition. The
publishers have issued a joint address
explaining the causes which induced
them TO suspend.
A Westboro', Mass correspondent
writes that a venerable lady named Rug
giles, 93 years Of age, is still living in that
place, with faculties undimmed, who,
while a teacher in Cambridge, numbered
among her pupils a fair haired boy named
Robert Z. Lee, afterward commander
in-chief Of The Confederate army.
Gov. Smyth, Of New Hampshire, hav-
ing represented 70 Secretary Seward that
Capt. Cornelius Healy, late of the sth
New Hampshire regiment, was under
going imprisonment in ireland on an
unjust charge of being a Fenian emissary,
Mr.. Seward has written TO assure the
Governor that the matter viii be brought
to the attention Of the British govern
ment without delay.
Recent accounts from Leghorn relate
that there is a general rise in the price
Of foreign articles imported there, and
especially in petroleum, Of which the
consumption is said to be so large in
Italy that the supply is not equal TO the
demand. The price has 20 much in
creased lately that large companies have
been formed IN Venice and Genoa for
working and purifying the produce of
the petroleum springs which exist in
Parma and Calabria.
The Griffin GA Herald states that
sixty thousand Of the one hundred thou
sand called for have already been sub
scribed to aid in the completion Of the
Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama
railroad. The editor deems the enter
prise an important one, and thinks it
viii be rapidly pushed forward to COM
pletion. We believe this road is designed
to connect Griffin with Decatur, Ala,
via Newman and jacksonville.
John Porter Stockton, lately excluded
by the radicals from his seat in the
United States Senate, is the son of Com
m0dore Stockton, Of the United States
navy, at one time known by the title Of
the " Conqueror OF California" He is a
great grandson Of Richard Stockton, one
Of the signers of the declaration Of indie
p~endence, and a member of the first
Congress. A lawyer by profession he
occupies a foremost rank at the New
Jersey bar. He is 2 man Of thorough ed
ucation and fine culture, and as an
eloquent speaker and a close, eogent
reasoner, has but few equals and no su-
periors in the State. During President
Buchanan's administration he was
United States Minister at Rome.
He was one Of the three com
missiOners who, N years ago, re-
the laws of New Jersey-a
work Of which he performed the greater
share. He resides in that city, where hei is
universally respected, and where his per-
sonal friends are found among mel of all
Of politics and opinion. He is
about forty years Of age.
There were on the lst January, 1866,
700 telegraphic offices open; two lines
Europe TO Africa; n goes from
Narsala, Sicily, to Bizerta, Tunis, and is
Connected by the Tunisian lines with
hose Of Algeria the other goes from
Malta to Bengazhi, Tripoli, and runs
along the Mediterranean coast to Alex
Egypt. This second line
was destined to become one Of the
dement's Of communication with India
}ut the difficulties Of keeping a sound
able amid the coral bottom Of the Gulf
# Arabia forced the interested parties to
ay down a cable elsewhere this second
inc, consequently, is used only for the
citations Of Europe and Egypt. The
after country is connected with Europe
md with Asia by a line which crosses
syria, with stations at Jerusalem.
TRIPODS and Beyrout; IL crosses
he Bosphorus, and is in connection
With the lines Of Turkey in Eu-
ope. kilograms for India may be
ent two ways: through Italy, by the
able from Otranto 10 Nallona, through
in Europe and in Asia, to Bas-
ora, on the Persian Gulf, whence it goes
q
o join the Indian line at Kurrachea. bv T,
ables in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf F.,
f Oman; the second way is through I
Caucasus, Persia, to Bassora. :
here are l6l stations in India, 4 in Cey- I
N. The telegraph to China is through
,ussia and Siberia to the frontier settle ]
lents Of Kiatchta, whence they are =
to Pekin in fifteen days by the
post.
A National Women's Rights Conven- .
on viii be held at the church Of the !
~uritans, New York, on the 10Th of Nav /
ext. The advocates Of {" female suf- d
age" in their circular calling the con-
say -" From the proposed class +
g~islation in Congress it is evident we 5
ave not yet learned wisdom from expe- q