Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-23
H MEMPHIS APPEAL
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UEsDAY, &. APRIL %, 1867


TUESDAY, - APRIL %, 1867
BREVIFfEs.
There are in all seventy-one eompa-
HES Of United States troops stationed in
Texas. ~ a1
beverly Nash has not purchased the
South Clrohinian, as reported, and it is
therefore not a negro organ yet.
tits feared that there viii be no
q mast-feed" for the stock in Texas this
year.
Jacob Barker, the old merchant, was
the first to register in New Orleans, M
der the Sheridan despotlsm act.
of the postofices in South Carolina,
forty-four are kept by postmistresses.
The Brazilian navy on the la Plata
consists Of thirty-fve vessels, AS guns
and 1000 men.
The steamer Syren, %eapturned near
Charleston when it surrendered, has
been decided a legal prize.
Uncle Tommy Moore" the oldest
member Of the Masonic fraternity, aged
eighty, died in Athens, Ca, on the 18th
instant
The governor OF Arkansas says that
she is ready to organize under the econ
~struction act.
The immense picking and preserv-
ing establishment offs. s. Provost, Of
New York, has been entirely destroyed
by fire.
France and Prussia are both reported
making preparations for war, and all
Europe stands aghast.
imprisonment for debt is abolished
in France-One more step towards lib
erty.
Dispatches received from BerliR
state that the speech of King William,
on closing parliament, exeites distrust
throughout Germany.
Gen. Steadman, the newly appointed
collector of internal revenue for New
| Orleans, has assumed the duties of his
office,
The latest Mexican intelligence is
that MaximiIian is on his way to the
city Of Mexico, having been wounded in
the arm at Queretaro.
The turnip was first brought to Eng
Jand about the year 1850, by Lord Town
send, a land owner in the county of Nor
folk.
The president has had an interview
with q lot Of Japanese Tommies. Several
speeches were made.
Maj Gen. Rawlings, chief of Gen.
! Grants staff, leaves Washington in a
few days on a tour Of inspection over the
plains.
The entire dramatic profession Of
Philadelphia, and the Parepa opera
troupe, gave entertainments at the
Academy of Music, IN Wednesday, in
aid of the southern famine fund.
The Des Moines city council have
passed an ordinance f~orbidding the man
ufacture and sale of lager beer within
the city limits, and declaring beer So
looms ~nuissnees, to be removed by the
/ city officials.
The annual meeting of the stock.
holders of the Greenville and Columbia
railroad company will be held in Column
bia on Thursday, the ID of May next.
-Under the death notices in the New
Bedford Mercury is that of a parrot
which died at the age of forty years.
The specimens of Vermont marble
semitic the Paris exposition excite much
admiration and are said to be as fine as
any stone quarried in Europe.
ellie Pittsburg siiver-miniDg com
Operating in Jackson county, West
Virginia, have found rock yielding forty
dollars to the ton, and are confident o
striking a richer vein.
A gun weighing IS, 915 pounds, witt
twenty inch bore, arrived in Jersey City
the other day by the New Jersey rail
road, from Pittsburg, where it was made
1t is intended for one of the ratification
in New York harbor.
The Confederate Gen. P. d. Roddy
has established himself as q banker oil
Wall stSet in New York. Gen. Lorini
has done the same on New street.
AT Baltimore the suit against Maj
Gen. John E. Wool, for false imprisOn
ment during the war, is progressing il
the United States circuit court, and at
tracts much public interest, as othe
cases are pending on the result.
The Norfolk and Petersburg, Soutl
Side and Virginia and Tennessee rail
roads have been consolidated into ont
read, to be called the Atlantic, Missis
sippi and Ohio railroad.
The French lronclad Couronne foun
dered during a hurricane in the gulf o
Lyons. Several of the crew persisted.
Strawberries grown in the open al
were selling at San Francisco on the 14tl
OF last month at seventy-fve cents
quart.
The grasshoppers are beginning Il
give the people of Western Texas SOM
uneasiness. The San Antonio Herald
says that the young insects have sp
pesred in that vicinity, "myriads upQs
myriads Of them.n
The proposed London aequeduct, Z,
bring water from the WestmorelaAJ
lakes, as estimated, will be l3S mile
long, deliver $685. 600 gallons a day
and cost over SD, 100000.
-Rumors are afioat in Washington
that Mr.. Seward is negotiating for tn,
purchase OF Sonora from Mexico. TIT
datrict is not as favorable for the ict
trade as Russian~America, but the pric,
talked of is the same as is to be paid fol
the latter.
The supreme court has designated
Justices Nelson, Swsyne and Miller t.
prepare rules and regulations for pro
ceedings under the new bankrupt law
and these three gentlemen viii at one,
enter upon the necessary elaboration
in the case.
The California papers are discussing
the comparative hight of the mountains
in the west, and claim Mount Whitney
in California, as the highest in tn,
COuuNig at an alLlbuuc VI 4ofbVu tc6A
They cut down Mount Hood to 1900
and Mount st. Elias to 1900 feet.
The Lynehburg Netps estimates tina
in the counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania
Franklin and Henry, in Virginia, ant
Rockingham and Caswell, in North Car
DINA, the tobacco now on hand is wortl
$4,000, coo.
The Staunton lyceum, of Virginia
decided the other night by a vote o
thirteen to twelve that the revolution o
1875 was a mistake. There, now, it
settled-revolutionary soldiers, pleas
take notice
Two negro body-snatehers were ar
rested in Chicago last Tuesday. The,
had five bodies just taken from Calvar,
/. cemetery.
"A northern exchange asserts tina
President Lincoln was slowly educate,
IN his apficlavarr uanfin1auks ~, 81.