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

e lard tables are 277,ll0f. a day, or 10l.
I+5,l50E a year.
: The World says the Fenian eXpeditio
y Is bound for the island Of Campo Bell
al the entrance Of Passsmaquaddy bay
y Five OF six hundred men had gone i
% small squads TO Machias, Maine, ther
Z to embark for their destination i
schooners.
A band Of negroes attacked the citizen
Of ~JohnsonvilIe, on the Tennessee riveI
, on Wednesday. They robbed stores an
dwellings, and threatened to kill ever
, inhabitant in the town. A posse Of sol
diers, 70 preserve peace had been sen
for.
a bottle containing the following mes
/ sage written in pencil on a torn envelop
was picked Up on the beach at Brighton
England, a fortnight ago: 9th @
January, on board the Londou-We Al
= Just going down; no chance Of safety
Please give this to Av0uia Jones, Sure,
Theater. GUsTAvUs VAUGHAN BROOKE.
The New York East Conference Of tn.
= Methodist Episcopal Church adoped
resolution expressing brotherly feeling
, and love toward the conference Of tn
{ church south now in session at New Or
r leans. To-day has been recommends
by the New York Conference as one O
{ mutual prayer and ~supphcation to tn
Throne Of Heavenly Grace.
The Mexican consul at san Francisc,
relates that in a late action at Tepalpli
the Liberal General Cano was defeate,
by the Imperial General Vivaso, with
loss Of SO killed. Perferro Diaz, the Liberia
general, met a.body Of Imperial troop
J. under Colonel AcevaI at Liano Grande
and Diaz was defeated with a loss of 10
prisoners taken. The news has mucl
elated the Imperial garrison. At Aca
puleo the Liberal General Alvarez is saiC
to have 200O men.
The Credit Mobrier, Paris, paid on.
last year lbs, SIC, 1891. of interests ant
dividends, and the whole mount o.
payments made reached the sum d
I48, 285, self During thirteen years Of it,
existence the Credit Mobilier with a cap.
itaI Of 60, 600, OO0E. has cleared profits to
the amount Of l27, O00, O00G The average
number Of shares held by the proprietors
is between ten and twelve shares; there
are 10000 shares in all. The capital OF
this joint stock company has been
doubled; it was G0,00O, 000f., it is now
I20, 600, OOOG.
Among the articles placed on the free
list in the new internal tax bill are the
following: Railroad iron, vinegar, deer
skins, steel, mineral coal Of all kinds,
white lead, starch, soft soap, building
stones, oils, other than petroleum, gold
leaf, shades and awnings, oxide Of zinc.
mineral waters OF all kinds, printers
c%olors, hulls Of vessels, rosin barrels, fer
t~ilizers, pig iron, medicinal waters, etc,
umbrellas and parasOls. Newspaper and
book publishers viii be rei0iced to learn
that the Committee have decided to take
all tax or Paper and printed matter.
The French Government is pressing
with might and main the establishment
Of an Atlantic telegraph from Lisbon to
Cape st. Vincent, 10 Araish West coast
Of Africa and several other places on the
Western coast Of Africa, to the Canary
Islands, MADEIRA, back to the African
coast, where it touches at Portendick, st.
Louis Of Senegal, GOrea, Cape Verde, the
Cape Verde Islands and thence to the
Las ROcas Islands, of the coast of Brazil,
thence to Cayenne, Trinidad, Martinique,
G~uadalouPe, Hayti, Cuba and New
Orleans. France viii give a subsidy OF
1000, 00of, Brazil 5000, OOOf and Portugal
2,O00, OO0f.
The War Department has ordered the
following volunteer organizations to be
mustered out Of service: The Illinois
18th, 42d, 5Sth and 5gth Infantry; Indi-
ana 33d Infantry; 9Th Kentucky In
fantry 1st Infantry, companies Z and
I; companies A, 3, c, D, E, G, land L,
Michigan Cavalry, and 4th Vermont In
fantry; 2d Battery Minnesota Artillery
18th Ohio Infantry; company D LIST Ore
gon Infantry; 2l4th Pennsylvania; 35th
Wisconsin Infantry and Of the colored
troops, the 4th, l4th, 18th, 2lsL 35th, 10th,
SD, S4th, seth, g7th and 18th Infantry:
lst Heavy Artillery, and 4th, 9th and 9Th
Cavalry.
The Chicago Journal copies an article
from the New York Tii5uoe on the clean
ing process Of Gotham which may be
interesting here. "The spectacle Of our
city cleaning ITSELF says the Tribune. /
Is morally sublime. There has been
nothing like it since Hercules took the
Aegean stables by contract, and did his
work in a way worthy ofhis godship. The
is multiform. There is a sort Of uni
formity about cleanliness, but its opposite
Is multifari0us-i Is seen and unseen, tits
4uid, andsolid, and gaseous-it bullies US
IN the cutters and sueers at Us from the
sewers-it lies in hot obstruction, OF walks
about upon two legs-it Is offensive in
rade, makes the piers noisome, dims the
uperabundant wealth Of the markets,
insults its enemies and p~oisonsits friends.
To an eye lacking in faith, there IS a kind
4 h0pelessness about the task, as if
garbage were like ~contending
.gainst the laws Of nature-as if We
as well expect a New Jerusalem
IS a cleaused New York or a cleansed
iemphis. The only difficulty in rum
ling the parallel between Gotham and
hfz -ifv a. #ha+ Hg-1r-r.s a. 81 - man .
he former while the latter remains in
he hands Of our intelligent and sprightly ]
Board Of Mayor and Aldermen. But II, /
n the course Of human events and BY the !
nerciial interposition Of Divine Provi- !
-ence, the Board should turn over in a
heir sleep and open their ewes wide [
nough to see the quantity and quality h
+ the Augeanic task before them. and n
hemagistracyn should find Themselves 4
Efficiently " in a condition to do b1si- o
ess" to look after the cleanliness Of Q
be city, why they would find some speb i
ask a. that pictured out for the New p
'ork Metropolitan Boardof VI ealth which "a
finds no wearisome sameness in the de- n
lands upon its sagacity and energy. q
here are the markets to be watched, O
be dnuaping grounds to be guarded, the a
laughter houses to be enjoined, the o
laughter houses to be suppressed, the D
anement houses to be vacated. the sta 3
les to be purifed-theTe is 10 be exeava- b
ng, cleaning, painting withdrawing, "
.rOsecuting, filming, demolishing, and all 81
his must be done within the limits Of b
be law, and without any violation Of y
ldisputable personal rights. All this is rs
work Of time, and We must be pa a,
Indeed, the citizens Of Mem y
bis must have moe patience than Job, 7
" cur Board Of Mayor and Aldermen Il
e worse than toads-they sleep all the ii
round, "