Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-20

B~REyITIEs.
% Brick " Pomeroy left New Orleans
on Sunday for Mobile.
Gen. Mower has assumed command
of the post of New Orleans, under the
order of Gen. Sheridan issued on the
18th.
A dispatch has been received fan
SpFRcing the burning of half the bust
ness Portion of Albany, Ga.
The cable to connect Florida with
Cuba is ia process of construction in
London, and viii be laid In June next.
The remains of Gen. w. P. Benton
were inferred in Greenwood cemetery,
New Orleans, on Sunday, with custom
airy Masonic rites.
There is a general opinion in Paris
that when the exhibition opens many
parts will still be unfinished.
The Irishmen of New Orleans eele-
brated st. Patrick's day by an imposing
procession.
The Louisville city council has au-
thorized a subscription of 100000 for
the Richmond and Stanford branch rail-
road.
An Australian paper notices the
capture Of the first white bear found in
that colony. It's eyes are q light blue.
The city council of New York has
proposed to purchase complete files of
the Herald for the past twenty-five
years for their library.
Bishop Lee, of Iowa, has issued a
pastoral letter against rituaIism.
Lord Stanley has promoted Charles
Lever, the novelist, to be British consul
at. Trieste.
The black dwarf, one of the Crook
is being played in the New Eng
land states at present.
&as~here are 100 students in attendance
in the State agricultural college at Lex
Ky.
-Seventy-five thousand gallons of
have been seized altogether by III
Massachusetts, state ~constables since thq
commenced their raids.
The Fenians on the Canada border
are in a state of excitement, and the
John Bulls on the other side are in a state
If alarm.
The great powers have united in
lrging on the Turkish government the
0 fliberal concessions to the chris
ians subject to the sultan, and a native
eform party in Constantinople supports
he movement.
Ashley, OF Ohio, the fellow who is so
.trenuOus for President Johnson's i'm
eachment, was fifteen years ago a trav-
ling lecturer on mesmerism and a thin {
lie rigger. ;
"A large tobacco warehouse at Rum !
ay, KY, occupied and owned by Mr.. |
c.. Van Ripper, of Evansville, has !
cen swept away by the flood in Green
.ver.
The people in Colorado county,
exas, prefer waiting on each other to .
ling at law, a course which the paper :
lblished in that county, the Columbus $
5n1es, recommends TO everybody in 5
lese trying times. |,
A society for the reclamation of
lien women, operating on the New
Ork plan, has been formed by some of
le phiianthropic ladies and gentlemen P
indianapolis. 81
Nineteen steamships left New York a
for Europe, West Indian, Cen ia
American and coastwise ports, ear 81
ing Il thousand and thirty-four pas ~
myers, four hundred United States ~
pops and S47s, 7O7 in specie. Ii,
H. Lee, the treasury clerk VINO by
seconded with $4,000 worth of seven W
irty bonds, has made a full confession. he
which he avers hat the theft was oc
-premeditated, but that he had been an
when he committed it. u.
Charges have been preferred against II
W. Wells, Of Louisiana, for usurpation da
issuing his proclamation declaring the Gu
affiliations Of voters in the state in &C. er
'dance with the reconstruction bill, In
d his impeachserS is probable. uri
are runners about an under fee
nding between France and the United oP
ties, that we are to purchase Chibua- mi
a, and that the proceeds are to repay Gig
French and Mexican war bonds. fac
ieh France is in the meantime TO III
ume. aso
hundred barrels Of whisky. the the
go Of a schooner, were seized by the spr
tied States revenu officers at Gal sui
ton, for an attempted evasion of iss'
The vessel had already landed EKr
hundred barrels at Indianola. S
The province of Topic, Mexico, to- AN
Ter with the port town Of San Bias, Ian.
ED by Gen. Lozsda as neutral, and on
cunts on sufficient force to make his bee.
respected. Is is stated that he s f
call out eight thousand men in con
hours. cen
Despite the hard times in Austria. vice
vas never gayer than the pres. was Is
-Four grand masked balls and of ii
rs Of smaller ones each week, six terei
open regularly and all the sion
singspieI halle and dancing Tn
Is are crowded TO excess. a We
phe proposition of the New York who
I'd TO run Gen. Grant for nresident hon
aen Lee TOT Nice-president in 1858, imas
using some snarling among the radi. noon
The Herald says the election Of Tor
two soldiers would insure TO the coad
try union and fraternity at home. he "
and influence abroad. He /,