Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-10

lawyer in Maine recently moved for
q new trial on The ground chat the YER
diet uns against the law and the evil
dence, and the jury were undaly infin-
eneed by the great beauty Of the female
plaintiff"
A discharged German soldier, unable
to find employment, with a starving fam
nv. committed suicide at Philadelphia
last week, by shooting himself with 4 toy
! cannon belonging 60 n Of his children,
which be loaded with powder and mar
/ bic and fired into his mouth.
The Albion newspaper az New York,
has changed hands. Mr.. Young, VINO
has conducted the Journal fOrm years,
r~etires, and viii probably 80 20 Europe.
The new owner, Mr.. Morfsll, is a mer-
chant Of this city, engaged in the straw
goods trade in New York and Canada.
It is said the price paid was $1,000.
A reporter 20 the Agricultural Depart
ment says the people Of the Carolinas,
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi are
putting in al the cotton possible but
labor IS scarce. The freedmen are emf
grating to the Southwest. Corn and
wheat are promising. The people are
confident and e~xhuberant, believing in a
! splendid future, and inviting labor from
the North and West, which is fast COM
ing in.
In the stament made by John Minor
Bolts before the Reconstruction Com
mittee to the effect that Mr.. Lincoln had
offered in April 1861, TO Mr.. Baldwin, of
Virginia, that if the Virginia Conven-
ton would adjourn he would withdraw
the garrison from Forts Pickens and
Sumter. Nj. Bolts account Of an alleged
conversation held with Mr.. Baldwin in
Richmond is emphatically denied by Mr..
Baldwin. The latter is to make a public
contradiction of Mr.. Bolts statement.
Among the losers at the recent confla-
grafton at Fulton street, New York, were
Geo. Richmond, boots and shoes, $780,
900, half insurance; w. ]. Sharp, billiard
table maker, s25,OO0, insured partially
james Eustace, jr., clothier, 100000, in
sured VIM. II. GrosieId, billiard table
maker, 5000, partly insured. The to-
tai loss, including the Clermont Hotel, is
500, 900. The loss by Barclay street fire
is estimated at $4,000, and may ex-
coed It. Hatfield Taylor loses $4,000,
and is supposed to be insured.
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Gen. Fisk, Assistant Commissioner of
Freedmen for Tennessee and Kentucky,
denying hecharge made by Gov. Brown
low in q recent speech, that before the
passage Of the Freedmen's Bureau bill,
he (Gen. H read it to the President,
who approved oft. Gen. Howard says:
Il sent my report TO the President, re-
commencing substantially many things
contained in Senator TrumbulPs bill. I
did converse with the President with re-
gard to these recommendations, butnever
read or discussed the said bill with him
before its passage"
The Jackson MssissippjGn has seen a
letter from Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in
reference To the Presidency Of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, in which he states :
{" The position would be the most agree
able one to me of all 1 can think of. !
know Of no employment that would be
50 agreeable to me as that Of President
Of a respectable railroad company, and
1 should prefer that Of the Mobile and
Ohio road to any other. Most Of the
L served with were from the Gulf
States, and therefore, l have more
in them than anywhere else.
For that reason I should prefer to pass
my remaining days in that region. I
would come on Immediately but for en-
gagemeuts that viii bind me for some
weeks With such q mind as John
ston's controlling the concern it cannot
but prove a success, and give the utmost
satisfaction to all parties interested.
The following statement shows the
number and cash value of claims re-
and settled by the United States
Sanitary Commissions agency during
the month of March