Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-29
news OF THE DAY.

world.
The proposed convention Of southern
commanders at Washington city la
been abandoned for the present.
"A negro in Houston, Texas, on tria
for the murder Of another, refuses Z
have negroes on the jury. -rst
New York is trying concrete pave
ments.
Two hundred and ffty-eight patent
will be issued for the week ending Sep
tember 4th.
A Washington dispatch says th'
president has issued an order assigning
Gen. Hancock to Gen. Sheridsn's place
The first vineyard on Kelly's islanC
was planted June 2S, 1858, since which
time four hundred and twenty-one acre
have been devoted to the culture of th'
grape.
Secretary Seward and the French
and Spanish ministers, who went on 6
trip to Yorktown and Fortress Monroe OF
Friday, returned to Washington yester
day. ....-
About three thousand visitors WHIT
went from Boston, on the 22d instant, Il
the encampmeut of the first brigade, il
Hull, were obliged to spend the night il
camp. A terrible storm prevailed at
night, and there was much suffering
/ among the women and children. who
were without shelter.
"A short time since dancer in st
Petersburg was presented with q bOuque
that filled an entire carriage.
A Washington telegram says charge.
will be preferred this week against the
subordinate officers of the freedmen:
bureau.
in Switzerland elections are held Oh
Sundays.
The Brazilian minister and family
sailed on Friday for Rio Jsneiro.
/ The St. Louis Repu5licGn retracts its
erroneous story about Gen. Sheridan:
turnout.
Brick Pomeroy intends to make an.
other southern trip this fall.
J The United States commissioner al
! Richmond has decided that the civil
rights bill does not apply to foreign
! negroes.
President Buchanan is still con-
! fined to his room at Wheatland, but is
improving slowly.
President johnson has been elected
an honorary member Of the New York
! Mutual base ball club.
| An order has been issued by the war
| department that no officer Of the regular
]
other title than that attached to his
| lineal or brevet rank, or wear any other
| than the uniform prescribed for his lineal
/ or brevet rank.
In Europe, generally, the chances OF
birth of deaf mute child are more than
twice as great as in the United States,
or 6l5 in million there, against 27S in
a million here; while the chances of the
loss Of hearing after birth are, in Europe,
except in Germany, much less than in
the United States, to wit l54 in mil
lion there, and 222 in a million here.
A small vessel, with q negro captain
and a negro crew, has arrived at Pensa-
cola from Ruatan, on her way to Mo-
bile, with q load Of fruit, parrots and
monkeys.
The wind was so strong on the Goth
on the prairie between Houston and
Galveston, that three cattle cars were
blown off the railroad track.
The Honolulu Advertiser predicts
that within 8 few years submarine tel
egraph will be laid between that city
aud San Francisco. ..-
A canary bird died at Lee, Mass,
the other day, at the age Of seventeen
years, and was a great songster to the
last.
The Chicago Republican thinks
Stanton's political prospects are better
than those of any other man in the
country.
Between Canal street and Grace
church on Broadway, New York, there
are over fifty stores to let. Cause-ex-
hOrbitant rents.
James Gordon Bennett taught school
in 1918, at Steuben, Me-, for two dollars a
week and bis board.
The New Orleans Crescent says DR..
Knapp has some fine specimens Of the
ramie, the proposed substitute for cotton,
growing upon his plantation in the par
ish Of st. Bernard.
There may be negroes in the next
congress, says Prentice, but Sumner and
Thad. Stevens are in the present.
All the bridges across the Chicks
hominy river, except the railroad and
the Mechanicsville turnpike bridges,
were washed away by the late flood in
Virginia.
The editor of the Baton Rouge AdUo-
cate says he prints his paper only for
those who pay for it. Outside Of that
charmed circle he cares not a fig for pop
ular opinion.
A lady witness before a New York
coroner's jury did not know of any trou-
bic the deceased had except that she was
a widow.
The first passenger ear running on
the newly finished road, arrived at the
depot in Sparta, Ga, last Thursday, the
8th inst.
Chandler has won from the New Or
leans PcGy1ne the title of smooth
bore, One-pounder congressman"
"A negro boy in Louisiana, born
blind, has taught himself to read by feel
ing the inscriptions on the tombstOnes in
an old cemetery nearhis former masters
home.
Gen. Lersundi has been appointed
capta in general Of Cuba, In place of Man
zano, who has resigned.
1T is rumored that the Raleigh Pro
0ress has INeen threatened with suppress
sion in consequence Of ridiculing Gen.
Sickles.
Major Rsvm 9nd H. Perry, recently
sppoipted chief of police of Galveston
and previously employed by Gen. Sheri-
dan as detective, died last week Of yell
low fever.
"A writer in the New York Gazette
mentions Whittier's lack of classical eul-
ture as the secret of the charming sim
plicity Of his style, and the peculiarly
American character of all bis ritings.
"A severe tOnado visited Bellevieu,
Ky, lust above Newport, on Saturday,
blowing down several houses and doing
other damage.
John Savage has accepted Of the pO-
sition OF chief organizer of the Fenisn
brotherhood. He expects to be able to
unite both wings.
The latest adviees say the continued
drouth has killed Off the army worm in
Arkansas and Mississippi, and an Rv-
eTape crop is likely TO be made.
The Alderman in the west division
of Chicago have challenged those Of the
north and south divisions to a game Of
base ball any day this month. The lat
ter accepted Saturday afternoon.
Minister Adams, Mr.. Bingham, Gov.
Andrew, and Senators Sherman, Dixon,
Anthony and Fessenden are all men
toned in connection with cabinet ap-
pOintment.
There were two hundred and nine
deaths in st. Louis during the past week,
sixty-four Of which are reported as hav-
ing occurred from cholera mOrbus.
The steamer st. David, which sailed
Friday from Quebec for Liverpool, went
.1A bore on Matares Saturday, but got off
wit hout damage, and proceeded on her
way,
Spanis h revolutionary leader, IL he can
succeed in his designs, will sell Cuta to
the Unfled States, the price to be deter
mined by q mixed commission.
The office of commissary general Of
prisouers is to be consolidated with that
of ediutant general. About thirty clerks
in the former office are to be discharged.
-Satrap Sickles, on being relieved,
will be mustered out Of his volunteer
rank. which will leave him colonel in
the regular army.
The president denies the report Of
the Boston Post, that he had said Gen.
Grant was at one time in fsver Of STAN
toms removal.
Gen. Grant, it is reported, has
solicited the appointment of Gen.
Webster 70 the Chicago POstoffice, SIS a
personal favor.
The soldiers union, in Washington,
are preparing grand reception for
Sheridan, on his arrival at the capital.
Representative Z. b. Washburne
arrived In Washington Monday, much
improved in health. He is visiting Gen.
Grant. .e"-..
One death by yellow fever has Oc-
Cured in New York city-that of a 'long-
shoreman who died in Cherry street. He