Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-09
Congress On PoIygarny.

tout Al ldItuGcl. VOuI steamers arrived.
a after the other, at Galveston, from
New Orleans, last week, without bring
ing over the mail.
Congress on PoIy gaTBy.
W~AsHINGTON, Jan. S.-Congress Is en-
gagged in presenting bills, which were
appropriately referred; among which,
was n ~denOuneing Polygamy as twin
sister Of slavery, and asking the whole
power Of the Government for its sup
preston.
Weather reports from the North indi-
cate the most sever weather since eigh-
teen hundred and ffty-seven-the mer-
curry ranging below zero.
New York aarket.
New YORK, Jan. Section quiet:
quiet; Oats 81; Pork ST 10; Hogs SI1 %;
Sterling 9; Government stocks dun,
lower; Gold SO. -
Cincinnati Market.
CINCINNATI, Jan. S.-Flour I'M
changed Wheat, 81 Is; Oats, 40c;
Hog, Sll 50; Pork, S2S; Lard, l7!c {;
Whisky, s. 25.
Louisville Market.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. s.-Tabacco active
at full prices. Lugs, Sc TO IS. Cutting
Leaf, $50 TO $50 IS. Flour, 81. Corn,
S5c. Hogs, gross, 50. Mess Pork, so.
Lard, l9!c. Sugar, cured, este. Whisky,
81 "a. -zrea
HI Cairo is beginning to be regarded
as the head of navigation Of the Missis-
sirpi river. No boat has passed above
that point since December eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-fve.
~ We regret to learn that WHEY ].
/ Martin. of Kinds county, who was a
lieutenant in Company B, thiFty-sixth
Mississippi regiment, and one OF the most
popular officers 10 the regiment, wasshot
by Mr.. Henry MCGOWAN, near Midway,
Kinds county, during the Christmas fes-
t~ivities, and so severely wounded as to
cause the amputation of his leg. His old
| comrades in this county will deeply re-
gret the misfortune which has befailen
their generous and merry hearted friend
Wiley.
rr Gen. Baker, the chief of s~tanton's
detectives, who is TO be tried shortly for
infamous practices, is IN Gen. Grants
list for muster-out.l L
%Another coal mine explosion oc-
CURED near WentherdsviIle, England,
killing thirty-tvo persons and fDtlring
many others.
E@ The Louisiana Bank, of New Or
leans, capital one million dollars, was es-
tablished by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency last week.
nS-Totalcirculatio ion of y atinnal II Banks,
two hundred and thirty-seven million
three hundred and seventy-one thousand
one hundred and ffty-five dollars.
Ra-YoungA Augustine Iturbide, recently
designated By the Emperor Macmillan
as his heir, leaves Paris for Vera Cruz by
the next French steamship
as. Gen. Ewell has left Warrenton,
Va, and taken up his residence in Nash
vile.
sg- Securities for circulation OF ma
tional banks amounting 20 three hundred
and million forty thousand eight
hundred dollars have been deposited in
the Treasury Department.
Rar The Internal Revenue receipts on
Wednesday were nearly two million.
RIA large brick house, on Willow
street. in Hoboken, New Jersey, was
destroyed by fire yesterday, and two
children burned 70 death. They were left
alone by their mother, and their clothes
took fire from the stove.
R- The bridge owe Elk river, on the
Tennessee and Alabama Railroad, has
been swept away by a freshet, and traffic
over that road, for the present, is sus-
pended.
R- Brig.-Gen. Robert H. Anderson is
Chief of the Police force at Savannah.
IA Gen. John C. Breekinridre. Gen.
MeCausland, Col. Harry Gilmore. Mai.
John Castler1an, Capt. Kinds. and
others, who had been officers In fhe
armies of the Confederacy, are in 10
ronto, Canada.
BGr As the quickest way to make q
fortune a contemporary suggest marrv-
ing a fashionable young lady and selling
her clothes.
~ \ Sau ~rrs4ueiseou correspondent of
the New York Times writes that 4 dollar
Ia gold in California goes about as far as
J 4 vroaDhnf I dollar In Nav VnrE