Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-12
Noon Dispatches,

WASHINGTON, July lin the Sur
raft trial yesterday, several witnesses
( testified, pronOuncing the evidence given
/ by the witnesses for the prosecution as
unworthy Of credit, and that they were
men who could not be believed under
oath.
IL the senate the session is being con-
sumed in debAting the reconstruction
bill.
The death of Charles Dennison, mem
/ Der of the House, was announced. Buck
alew and Dennison delivered eulogies,
and the usual resolutions were adopted.
Custom receipts for the week ending
June Both, 3, 442, 767.
The trial of a l5-inch gun for our
navy, made from a pattern for the British
government, gave results highly fiatter-
I ing, the tests being severe.
A treaty has just been completed be-
tween the pOstoffice department of Eng
land and the United States, reducing
postage on single letters from twenty
four to twelve cents, and for other mall
able matter, such as newspapers, maps,
books, etc., six cents for four ,nces.
The president has ordered the United
States steamer Susquehanna to proceed
Immediately to the Mexican port Sisal,
and demand Santa Anna, dead or alive,
and satisfaction for the outrage commit
ted on the American dag by his seizure
The United States government, it has
been ascertained, is negotiating for the
purchase Of the Sandwich Islands.
RICHMOND, July 1l.-At Petersburg,
last night, about two hundred negroes
assembled at the cars and rescued from
the sheriff of Desmond county, negro
. - 81
brought to the penitentiary here. They
made the sheriff produce the keys to the
handouts and then made off with the
prisoner. The negro was arrested by
the police at Petersburg this morning
and brought TO the penitentiary.
The majority of negroes registered in
this city, 50 far, is 100.
The French tobacco seized as captured
property by the government, and for
which the ROthschilds are suing, was
sold to-day by the United States treasury
agents. The money is to be held until
the suit is decided
A Washington special says that Ould,
,sx Confederate exchange commissioner,
has been before the Butler conspiracy
committee and examined in reference to
the responsibility of various federal Of
ficers regarding the exchange of prison
ers. He was closely examined by Butler
as to acts of Gen. Grant.
A large delegation of white and black
radicals have arrived from North Caro-
lima for The purpose of urging upon con-
gress the necessity Of abolishing the
present state government.
A Havana correspondence states that
Santa Anna is still in prison. He has
refused all food for three days, and
was continually iaquiring if they were
going to shoot him. He asked for con-
fessor. as
LONDON, July 10 AN important d.
plomatic note from the Russian cabinet
regarding Ireland, has just been pub
lished, addressed to the ambassadors Of
Russia at Paris. They are requested to
call the attention Of the governments TO
which they are respectively accredited,
to the existing state of affairs in Ireland,
and are Instructed to represent that, ia
the opinion Of the Russian cabinet, the
condition Of that island invites a joint
inquiry on the part of Russia, France
and the United States in conjunction
with that Of Great Britain.
Hon. Mr.. Scofield, NJ. p, is dead.
LONDON, July l0.-Dispatches from
Madrid announce that Gen. Prim, the
noted reyolutionist, for sometime an ez-
lie from Spain, has landed ia the pro-
vince of Catalona, though nothing detin-
ite Is known of his destination. Fears
are entertained in Madrid that his sud-
den appearance Is but the forerunner Of
an ipsnrrection Ia that province