Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-05-01

Thomas Of COFFEE, Wicks Of Dixon and
Steele Of Marshall have been refused
their seats in the legislature.
The report from Fortress Monroe is
that the health Of Ex-President Davis
has considerably failed within the last
week.
The tariff question viii be taken into
consideration by the congressional COM
mirtee Of ways and means some day this
week.
The resolutions of the Wisconsin leg
stature requesting Senator Doolittle to
resign were read in Congress on Friday
and laid on the table.
The ladies of the southern relief fair at
Baltimore have shipped to the care Of
Gov. Jenkins five hundred barrels Of
-four, meal and bacon, for distribution
among the suffering poor Of Savannah.
The United States senate Judiciary
committee have laid aside for the pres
emit the nomination Of Hon. Henry Stan
berry as associate judge Of the supreme
court, and they have done nothing with
the bin proposing TO reduce the number
/ Of Justices Of that court.
A new freedmen's bureau bill IS to be
introduced into the United States house
/ Of representatives by kr. Elliott Of Mas
sachusetts. The New England radicals
seem determined on annoying the presi-
dent and keeping the country in a state
Of discord.
Il good many western army officers
are writing to senators severely CRITICS
ing the action Of the st. Louis board in
their recommendation for brevet pro-
motions. They claim that a large num-
Der Of merl1orious officers were utterly
ignored.
The following churches IN Cincinnati
have contributed the annexed amounts
toward the relief Of the poor of Alabama:
First presbyterian church $50 IS; second
presbyterian church SPA So; ninth street
baptist church S53 S.; Welsh congrega-
tional church so IS.
The london correspondent Of the New
York Times says that crinoline has gone
ont Of the fashionable world all at once,
ike q melting snow or a vanishing rain
bow. He tells Us that only the servants
aud very common people now wear the
wonderful expansions. This fashion now
is gored dresses and trains Of the first
empire"
The attention Of the secretary Of state
has been called by delegation from New
York 10 the necessity Of enforcing the
laws against overerowding emigrant yes
sells. The recent cases Of pestlence on
board Of vessels literally packed with
emierants shows that there should be
some speedy and efficient measures taken
to pssveat this importation Of disease
and death,
Among the special paEdons sigRed by
the President are those for J. T. Monroe,
mayor Of New Orleans. aEdJ. o. Nixon,
an alderman Of that city. The charge
held against Mayor Monroe Of ~endeavor-
ing 70 procure the assassination Of Com
mander Bailey, United states navy, has
been removed, principally, it is stated,
through the evidence furnished 70 the
President by Vice-Admiral Farragut.
The lands selected icy the state of Cal
r if1ruia In the present land district Of
Marysvlle aud Humboldt have been aP-
proved by the secretary Of the interior,
and certified transcripts have been trans
mitted by the commissioner Of the lane
Office 2 the governor of California. The
selections 0eFs made with thirty-eight
state warrants, and thisV original lists,
covering an area Of DO separate tracts
containing u, 202 acres.
A London publishing house has in
preparation q handbook Of t1s 2rt Of
iHumiaaGon," ~ practised during the
middle ages, vita = description Of the
metals, pigments, and processes en-
pIoyed by the artists st different periods
by Henry Shaw, F. s. A. This work
will contain examples Of English, Elem
ish, French, German and Italian art,
from the ninth to the a1tvsnth century,
executed in the best style o. wood ea-
craving.
The New Albany Ind Ledgcr has an
account Of an idividual who had doubt
less been reading about the cholera, who
r presented himself before a physician the
other day expressing apprehension lest
he should have it. Ia a few hours he
was attacked with every symptom Of the
disease, and the next morning was al
most hopelessly I'll, having passed
through the various stages Of the disease.
It is a plain case Of probable death from
p morbid imagination.
We are told by 8 Contemporary that
vessel viii sail from Jonesport, Maine
, for Saffa, 10y the way Of Malta, about the
! middle Of next July, loaded with lumber
and other building materials, furniture,
, agricultural inplements, and about TWEEN
: ty-fve OF thirty families, numbering in
: al about n hundred and twenty per.
sons. Their new home is near Jafia (the
: ancient Joppal It is situated in the
q midst of orange groves, lemon groves
pomegranate groves, fig trees, crap.
u vines, date trees, and almost every de.
n seription Of oriental fruit and shade trees