Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-11

-The Countess Dudley, just married
to one Of the richest nobiemen in Eng
land, Lord Ward, now Earl Dudley, was
tae belle at Compiegne. Her beauty,
toilette and jewels eclipsed all there,
making even the Empress jealous. She
is described as tall, fine features, ex-
quisite figure, twenty, amiable. Her
/ husband isan oldrake WhOhas dissipated
in every capital in Europe, been angled
for twenty-five years by ambitious
mamas Of handsome daughters, and has
" protected" more ballet girls and &C
I tresses than any mar on tie continent.
He surprised everybody by choosing his
bride from a poor but good family, and
endowing her with the most liberal gifts.
One OF the celebrations OF his marriage
was q free permission TO every tenant on
his estates to shoot game during the win
ter on the condition that they should not
sell it. The Earl Is well preserved con
sidering the life he has led, and is styled
handsome yet.
ES~Members Of the Cabinet emphati-
tcally deny that the President has issued
any orders stopping appointments upon
the recommendation Of Congress, or
either he or they have proposed catechi-
sing congressman who ak for Executive
patronage as 10 their intended policy (;
Al the same time it Is understood that
they seem 70 look forward TO a possible
! contingency, in which they might regard
a more exerting influence as proper. The
President recently said TO a conservative
New England Senator, that the only
mistake he had thus far made in his adj
ministraton was in sending Gen. Carl
| Schurz to investigate matters for him.
~ John Minor Bolts has come out
in a card denying that he has sought TO
~p-event the admission Of the Virginia
members. He says: Il have main
tanned that every Representative con
| s~tftutiouaIly elected who has prepared to
| comply with the acquisitions Of the
| Constitution and laws, was Is fully en-
| titled to take his seat as any Of those
now occupying seats in either House.
To admit that the States lately in re-
| balIion had been out Of the Union, and
| consequently that secession was lawful
| and constitutional, a position that no
body viii suspect me Of occupying
~ The Louisville publishers having
come 10 the conclusion that the issue Of
seven daily papers per week involved a
greater amount Of both mental n
physical labor, and Of wear and tear Of
bDdvand mind than mortals could be eX-
pected to stand for more than ten years
on a stretch, have wisely determined
hereafter to issue only six papers each
week. The Journal viii suspend its
Sunday issue the Courier won't begin
its Sunday paper, and the Democrat will
suspend its Monday issue, printing their
edition on Sunday morning, as before the
war.
e. Mr.. John Pitts, formerly a well
known resident Of Southwest Missouri,
but Iatterly Of Illinois, was shot and
killed by a young man named John
Hereford. The affair occurred at the
house of Capt. Hereford, residing IN
Charlton county. Pitts went to the
house, it Is said, called Hereford out and
fired first with a revolver, when Here
ford fred q shot gun, killing Pitts at the
second shot. The cause Of the difficulty
IS said TO have grown out Of some inn
proper conduct OF Hereford toward Pitts
wife.
~ The tax commissioners now IN
New York, engaged upon their report
will not be ready, 50 they inform the
Secretary of the Treasury, to submit ii
unto him for TWO weeks. 1t viii not be
submitted to Congress, therefore, before
the first Of February. 1t viii be a most
voIuminous document, covering several
hundred pages.
pza- The V~icksburg Herald learns that
the Freedmen's Bureau has orders from
Washington TO furnish transportation 70
Freedmen desiring 70 go to the planta-
lions 10 g work. There i also an
order to furnish labor for repairing the
levees. Gen. Humphries, L. s a, is
the Chief Engineer, under the direction
Of the United States Government.
na- Il is proposed 20 introduce in the
Senate a resolution discharging the Re
construction Committee from the further
consideration of the credentials of the
Tennessee Senators, referring them to
the Judiciary Committee. The friends
of the motion say theyco twenty-foJr
votes in its favor out Of the ~forty-eight
members who compose the Senate.
"a a new color, obtained from petro-
leum, is described as resembling in sp-
pearance powdered glass, Of a brilliant
green color, but upon being moistened
and rubbed upon paper a gorgeous ma
genta color was the result. The speci-
men examined was lately received from
Stuttgart, Germany.
r- The sword Of Boabdil, the last Of
the Moorish Kings in Spain, has been
added to the collection of antiquities
presented by the Duke Of Luynes to the
French nation. This relic Of the last
Prince Of a gallant race bears on it,
blade inscriptions from Keran in letters
Of gold.
sA French savant thinks he has
discovered a complete substitute for rags
in the manufacture Of paper. The root
Of the lucern plant, he observes, when
and beaten, shows thousands Of
very white fbres, which form an excel
lent paste for paper makers.
Ra- John Hendly was executed at
Lawrence, Kansas, on the twenty-ninth
for the murder Of John Sutton,
in June last, in Franklin county. Nj
merous as have been the hangings in
Lawrence, this was the first by legal pro-
cess.
pG- Aaron A. Bradley, tue negro
preacher convicted by a military COM
at Savannah, fol seditious Ian
guage and melting the freedmen to dis
order, and sentenced to q years hard
labor at Fort Pulaski, has been released
parole by order Of Secretary Stanton.