Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-21
TELEGRAPHIC.
MIDRIGHT D|ISPATCHES.

New ORLEANS, ApriI20.-The steamer
Rapidan has sailed for New York.
CottOn-gOOd qualities sitter, lower
grades unchanged, sales, $500 bales low
middling, 5000; to-day's receipts III
/ bales weeks sales, II 1000; receipts for
! the week, $4,000 against 1850 last week
exports for the week, Is, 80; stock on
! hand, 165,040: sugar and mOiasses NOM
inal flour, IS corn, firm, SlGl O5; oats,
81 polk, 2St bacon, shoulders, IS; clear
sides, l5lGl5E sterling, dull, 34l New
GorkBank cheeks, diseountRp par; gold,
26; Freights 10 New York, dull; Liver
pool, firm.
First race was ran to-day for 5000,
mile heats, and won by Lewis Z. Smith.
/ Time, I:j2t and I:53A. Second race for
I $500, mile heats, was won by 81 small bay
FLY. Time, l:55} and l:5Si.
The rains have injured cotton badly in
/ Texas. There is n general replanting.
The Methodist Conference has set
! apart Africans in separate diOceSes, TO
| be accountable 10 the Methodist Church,
until they have bishops Of their own.
II is estimated that there are only
5000 bales Of cotton up the Trinity river.
The old crop Of Texas is nearly
! cleared out.
INT N1ANA - AAA-A 1AA4 81 MULTIPLICATION
is feared
Cotton in louisiana and Texas is IN
affected by the rain and frost. 1t
! looks well.
The crevasse at Baton Rouge is widen
ing. The country looks like an ocean.
The river is rising. The Levee Commits
sioners are ~hesitatiug. The Press is very
/ severe upon their hesitation,
LOUISVILLE, April 20.-Sales OF to-
bseco, 1S7 hogsheads, at fun prices ;
/ fOur-supeTnne, s. p; mixed corn, SOC
oats, +5c; hogs, SlS mess pork, S26 .
/ bacOn-shOulders, l2c; clear sides, 10 ;
sugar cured hams, choice, 22c cotton
low middhng, soc; whisky, g y ;
lard, lStO,
NEW YORK, April 20.-The steamer
State Of Maine, when within three miles
of New London, ran on rocks at East
ern Point. She sustained no material
damage.
The Irs5Wae's Eastport special says
there is no excitement this side of the
boundary, and that General Meade viii
| officially explode the Fenian bubble.
The ear drivers strike is ended.
Antigua adyiees Of March "a, and
Bermuda, Of the 18th Of April, say that
/ vessels of the English, North American
D anu " - AANAA EA1bNADis were N active
motion to and from Halifax and the
Islands, and ships were expected from
England with marines and war ~supnlies,
The Colonial Parliament met IN Ber-
muda on the 10th inst.
Baine has assumed the Government of
Grenada.
Major Munsey is appointed Governor
Dr0 tenl. Of British Guinea.
BreadstuM and provisions advaneedin
Jamiaca.
WASHINGTON, April 2O.-The Senate
Committee on Commerce to-day agreed
to report in favor Of 4. L. Baker for Sur
veyOr of the port OF New Orleans and
l reject Gilmore as Collector Of the mort III
( Mobile, on account of his particfpation
in the rebellion,
Washington special says that Lewis
Ohreus, a native of Hungary, formerly
Of Gen. Towards staff, has committed
suicide.
Gen. Baker has made a voluminous
report in reference to bounty jumping
I frauds, showing that f500, 900 men called
out and sworn in by the Government.
only 100, 900 reached the field as soldiers,
although thousands Of others got their
bounties. This wholesale System OF
fraud is shown to have been perpetrated
in nearly every loyal State.
NEW YORK, April Cot is stated that
the Ways and Means Committee have
finally overcome the obstacles relative
to imposing a tax Of five per cent. on
cotton. The bin was agreed upon to-
day.
The steamer Arizona, from AspinwaH,
has arrived with S620,000 in specie.
There was a fearful explosion at Aspin-
wall on the Sd ult., aboard the steamer
European, destroying the ship and 40
feet Of the wharf. II is supposed to have
been caused BY nitre oil carried on board.
( About 50 persons were killed, including
ne captain and officers Of the ship.
News from the Southern coast gives
better hopes Of a speedy settlement OF the
Peruvian, Gillian and Spanish question.
Little progress is making BY either
beIligerent. There was some talk OF
b~ombarding Valparaiso but Il was