Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-26
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LOUISVILLE, February 3.-Neathef
cloudy mercury As. The riverisfalilng
/ about a half inch per hour.
PrTTsBURG, February25.-The weather
is cloudy and cool. The river is falling
| steadily and thirteen feet in the channel
NEW YORK, February
! Deutchland, from Bremen the l4th, has
arrived.
The saxon portion of Transylvania are
reported favorable to a union with Hun
gary.
The senate Of the Danubian prinei-
palities agreed to abolish the tobacco
monopoly.
MazzinFs resignation Of his seat In the
| Italian deputies has been accepted.
Japanese advices say that Prince Cha
| sin had defeated Daniro Kokurs.
BERLIN, February ga session of
| the first parliament of the North Ger
manic states was opened yesterday by
/ the king Of Prussia. The members of
the royal family and Bismarck were
present. The king in his speech said he
/ was encireled as no German prince had
been for ages, and that all hopes for the
future welfare of the nation now rested
on the accomplished fact Of united
| Germany. He recommended that par
lament form q new constitutional union,
| which would be defensive in its charae-
ter and give unity, liberty and power to
fatherland.
LONDON, February pa dispatch
from Athens says the Greek steamer
P~aunellion safely arrived at the Island
of Gambia.
FLORENCE, February pa telegram
from Naples states that a powder msga-
zine exploded at Posilippi, near thatSty,
and a number Of lives were lost.
NEW York, FEBRUARY 25.-Files per
steamer Deutschland show by official par
lamentary statements and police mill
tarv reports, that the Fenian movement
against Chester Castle was very serious
and alarming. The affair was under
taken after due deliberatiOn, and carried
TO the verge Of completion with rspidity
and skill. An Irish-American officer,
serving in the Fenian ranks, betrayed
the secret to the authorities and saved,
in all probability, great trouble in Eng
land. The chief of police in Chester
states that the Fenian military directors,
consisting Of fifty men, mainly from
New York, have regular sittings in the
chief towns Of the united kingdom.
A special a V there is good grounds
for stating that the president will veto
the reconstruction bill on Wednesday,
tits possible that the president will let
the tenure Of Office bill become a law
without his signature.
Gen. Grant, on good authority, is
reported as saying he regarded the re-
construction bill very unwise legislation.
Ali the members Of the cabinet, with
one exception, are decidedly opposed to
the bill.
The report Of the investigating COM
mittes on frauds on the revenue, will
make a report to-day showing the distil-
Iery frauds to be far greater than has
been conceived, and the modes Of perpe-
trating such as almost to defy the law.
The fate Of the house bill authorizing
the payment Of the compound interest
notes in new g~reenbacks is extremely
doubtful.
A Washington special says it is con-
coded that there will be no opposition in
the republican party to the following
named gentlemen as officers for the
next house: Colfax, speaker; McPGeF-
son clerk; Ordway, sergeant-at-arms,
and Given for postmaster. There will
probably be a new man for d0orkeeper.
The president submitted the tenure of
Office bill to the Encouragement, it being
claimed that the bill is unconstitutional.
One hundred and fifty leading demo-
Gratis of New York hav e signed arequest
to the president that he sign the military
reconstruction bill.
The fate of the legal tender bill is I'M
certain. Senator Wilson will introduce
new sections to the bill providing that it
be unlawful for a national bank to allow
interest on deposits made by other ma
tional banks. This business, it is alleged,
is the u OF nearly all the financial
trouble in Wall street.
a special says the arrival Of Gov.
Andrew in Washington nov the
rumor that he is to have a seat in the
cabinet.
The friends of the tariff bill consider
it virtually killed. The special com
mittee on revenue favor the reduction
in the whisky tax, but the ways and
means committee are very much OPP
posed to it.