Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-02-06
TEEEGRAPHTC.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
Death Of cAlsr sussros simpson, Of Ken


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eLossow, Kr., Feb. 6Zwm. NJ. simpson
Chief Justice OF Kentucky. died to-day.
Cincinnati Market,
CrNCrgSArI, Feb.6-Flourunchanged wheat
scarce at 81 %; corn 5lc; oats dun at SIC; hog
hrIneE; mess pork 2eoi bacon steady lard al.
vaneed &c; sales at Ts4e; groceries qulea; cot.
ton Is held At 45c; whisky, 81 q
Washington special says there Il no pros.
peet that me Committee on Ways aud Mean.
will recommend The Canadian Reciprocity
Treaty nor It's extension. and ON It's probable
receipt legislation Will take place, making me
tax on distilled spirits similar in both eoup-
tries Navigatian Is 70 be opened, and the locks
Of the Weiland Canal, so that the English tolls
VIII be the a 10 all parties, aud the Importa-
tons NOM Canada are to be taxed SO a. 10 pos
sess noadFantage over our own products. Free
portsin Canada are 20 he abolished.
The Forthcoming Billiard Tournnment
Nav YORK, Feb. 5.-John Roberts, the cham
pion OF Great Beitain, Dudley Kavanaeb.
Melvin Foster, and other billiard celebrities.
leave this evening TO take part In the Menphis
billiard tournament They propose making,
Afterwards, q tour through the West and south.
Underwriters Proceedings.
Louisville, Feb. 9TH Underwriters. In
consultation to-day, declared 10 take no risks
on steamers where tubular boilers are used.
Leaf Tobacco sustained. Sales IS hhds. Lugs
ats 5Sss; Leaf s9gsl5; Good Leaf. si5as5;
Cotton, duli at l3o; Mess Pork. SO Bacon
shoulders, &c., Clear sides, l9Ikc; Hams. DC;
Corn and Oats, 47c; Flour, 81; Conee-Rio, sc;
Sugar, 1870 New Orleans, I5c.
Congressional.
WAsHSGToS, Feb. 5-The House resumed
the consideration OF the power OF the Freed
mems Bureau.
New York Market
NEW YoRx, Feb. 5-Cotton. duli ana mammal
aud less active; Whisky, s. d; Corn. dun at
Sc; Coffee, ~quiet-San Domingo. l2HalgHc:
Sugar, quiet and s~teady-Cuban Muscovado.
l2He; Molasses, quiet and firm; Pork. s2y7z; Ex-
change, 81 Gold, $50; Stocks. extremely duu
The Suffrage Questien.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6-The Virgluian LeeisIa-
ture has adopted a resolution approving Pres
ident Johnson's reconstruction policy. In
the Senate to-day, by a clerical order, Bir. An
tony's bill restoring suffrage I'm the District Of
Columbia, Is made TO confer suffrage only upon
white persons. Mr.. Clark, nom the mmit
ON Claims, reported adversely upon several pc
titions for compensation for losses incurred by
invading annie In Virginia and elsewhere. A
joint resolution was then passed propagiug the
following amendments representative shall
he appointed among the several States, accord
ing totheir respective numbers, providing hat
wherever the elective franchise shall be denied
or abridged, on account ofrace or color. all per-
sons ofsueh race or color shall be excluded from
the basis Of representation.
Sumner offered a substitute for the above. In
substance that Congress may enforce the pro-
hibition Of slavery by appropriate legislation,
and that all relics Of slavery should be re-
ranr-ad Fu.FmffN,.r al aH,-t--..g--
account Of color. He characterized the pro-
posed resolutions and amendments as nothing
else than another compromise OF human life.
Mr.. Sumner supported his views IN a speech OF
considerable length.
Chicago Market.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-Flour dull; wheat dull;
corn verydull oats quiet pork s3 o.; lard dul,
at I51zci hogs sI Is.
Important Orders.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-The Secretary Of the
Treasury has issued an order that nom and ar
ter March the nrst, a~llSouthern manufacturers
in possession Of the manufactures, shall be
held subject to the present rates OF duty. No
exception VIII be made in any case on account
oftle date OF manufacture.
The United States Consul at Liverpool. re-
ports to the Secretary of state, on January
twelfth, the loss of three American vessels; the
Harry Of the West, Meridian, and Tgress, and
the rescue OF their crews.
The cattle scourge is rather on the Increase
two hundred and forty-three cases are reported
for the week ending the twentieth, and since
the commencement Of the disease, seventy
thousand cattle had died OF the plague.
A terrific tempest was raging of the coast OF
France on the eighteenth, and several wrecks
can't 10 La Rochelle.
senate Combinations.
WAsHISGTON, Feb. 5-Senate combinations:
David Richards, as Tax Commissioner Tor Flor
ida; W. P. Kellogg. Collector OF Custom at New
Orleans; Brevet Maj.-Gen- B. W. Brice to be
Paymaster General, with the rank of Colonel.
New Orleans Market.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. cotton dull sales TO-
day 1900 bales at 4Sc. Flour firm super. s. $50
90. Corn active at 81 G5zal l25z. The supply
ofSugar and Molasses is becoming exhausted,
as there Is but little coming IN. Fair Sugar from
Halle and quiet. Molasses GO9s0c. New York
checks H@Z discount. Sterling 49,. Gold 50.
The appointment Of Z. F. Parker as Surveyor
Of this port gives universal satisfaction.
n Times indorses him, and says he is one Of
the few thoroughly consistent Union men, and
amsn Of great energy and business capacity.
Ex-Gov. Anderson, OF Ohio, Is here.
Col r. NJ. Hall is 10 assume command Of the
troops at Brazos.
The Austrian troops at Bagdad are com
manded by Col. Keodolisk.
The Spanish Consul AZ Matamoras with one
Of Gen. Mejiss officers left for the city Of Mexico
on the thirty-frst, on important business.
Civil proceedings have commenced by Texas
State officials at Brownsville, against the par
ties implicated in the Bagdad affair.
Gen. Woods, commanding in Mississippi, has
issued an order that Intervention win be exer-
cised by the military, in the prosecution against
negroes, Tor which white persons may be and
are punished by the laws Of the state.
1t appears there is upwards OF forty thousand
destitute persons in Alabama. who will require
an expenditure Of upwards OF two million dol
lars per annum, 10 rellvee them.
labor prospects on the Red river plantations
are more cheering. and the freedmen are dis
posed to give better satisfaction.
Shreveport IS active with business, and
claims 10 be doing the largest cotton business OF
any inland city. The receipts OF goods there
-. Lama Hsf Icv-a raaaf tho FarnauA .