Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-20

lnOunces the melancholy intelligence
that Hon. Reverdy johnson has entirely
lost his sight.
The Government has been swindled
to the extent Of one hundred millions oi
dollars on b whisky tax alone during
the past year. In the same period $25,
600, GOO AVE been lost on tobacco.
The rise and fall Of cotton affects
nearly equally all parts Of the civilized
world. In Normandy one manufacturer
has lost three million francs by the fall
in this staple.
Says the New York Herald: The
Radicals have put the law-msking power
Of the South into the hands Of q race
that in It's native land, never met in
convention for any other purpose but to
roast and eat its enemies.
The eleventh Senatorial district OF
Georgia, composed Of the counties OF
Clay, Randolph and Terrell, has elected
IN entire black delegation OF four.
-Gen. Grant has issued a special or
der hOnoFsbly mastering out Of the SER
vice Msi.-Gen. SickIes and Brig.-Gen.
Scott. The order takes effect from the
1st Of January. As Gen. Sickles has
been mustered out ss q voluntary officer
he retains his position as Colonel OF the
Fourteenth United States infantry.
A special says the best Republican
lawyers in Washington do not agree with
Attorney General S~tanberry in his opiu-
ion against the legality of the coming
session Of Congress.
The majority against female suffrage
in Kansas is S455, out OF q total vote OF
IS, 54i. The majority against negro suf-
frage is 1868. The majority for the dis
reimbursement Of disloysI persons is 654.
The Legislature is largely Republican.
-Assassinstions have beer arrested
suddenly in Utah by q telegram from
Gen. Sherman to Brigham Young. He
notified that pOtentate that he will hold
him responsible should any murders occur
hereafter similar 70 that of DR.. Robertson.
These horrible murders are believed to
have been instigated by Young.
The case Of Gen. Fitz John Porter.
which has been under consideration by
the Attorney General for some time, will
result in ordering q new trial. II win be
q precedent, but the proof of the foul
wrong done him is so strong, that Justice
would fail if it were not done him. The
decision will sOOn be made public.
Indications are that Gen. Garfield
will be Chairman of the Committee Of
Ways and Means and Gen Schenck Of
the Military Committee. The Chair
mai Of the Committee on Naval Affairs
will be given to ar. Pike of Maine or
Judge Kelley Of Pennsylvania, and Mr..
Harper OF Massachusetts, will have the
Banking and Currency as heretofore.
The Alabama Convention adopted a
resolution fsvoriBg the passage Of an or.
dinsnce giving freedmen a fair equiva.
lent for their services, from persons who
held them in slavery after January, 1863,
Al ordinance declaring all debts con-
trscted prior TO 1851, except those occur
ring nom nc sale OF slaves recoverable
was also offered.
The New Orleans Times states that the
corps If surveyors OF the New Orleans.
Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Com
pauy, have commeBced the survey and
location or the iiue on that road from
Mobile 10 GadsdsD, Ala. where il will
connect with the ..Wifls Valley Railroad
10 Chattanooga, when built, will com
plete the line OF railroad Ommunieatiou
between New Orleans aud Chattanooga.
"A special say the finance bill to be
presented by bfr. Sherman at the next
session OF Congress proposes to convert !
the debt as il natures into a long con
solidated one, but running not less than
thirty years at six per cent, with one
cent tax, equivalent TO 8 five per cent.
loan. Mr.. Sherman, it is said, intends
to press this matter on the Senate with g
view to securing early legislation.
The latest news from Abyssiuia de-
velops King Theodore in a still more
bloodthirsty aspect. He had made an
expedition to tbesDall island OF Metrsta,
in the lake Tans, and put every inhabi-
tant to death by fire; then he made a
trip 70 lag, q fiouFisbiDg town in Fog
gsrs, seized fifteen hundred peasants,
placed them 10 i've large houses and
burned them alive. IL is said there is
not nOw q single man, woman OF child
alive between Dehia Tabor and Emiras,
on toe borders Of Dembes. In the camp
his Majesty has been pursuing the same
game. Having heard tbattwn thousand
Ofbis troops wished to desert, he had them
surrounded by the others and their
thrOats cut like cattle, the mothers.
wives, children and nearest relatives Of
the men being pistoled by the soldiery.
Two hundred and ninety five chiefs Of
districts have had their hands and feet
cut of and have been left to starve.
Gen. Sch9ield, in his interview with
the President gave a good deal Of infor.
mati9n relative to the arming Of the
blacks in his district. The General stated
that the negroes were pretty generally
armed, and that the whites, In this re-
speet were at . great disad Vantage. The
prOpriety Of taxing some measures to
prevent 3 dangerous use By the blacks OF
their superiority IN arms and Organiss-
ton was discussed, and It Is probable
some plan will be agreed upon when the
General returns from his visit to New
York.
"A lady near Lynchburg has revealed
to the EVIL authorities Of that city, a plot
overheard by her on her husbands plan
tation formed by negroes to kill certain
white and epl5rBd men who had become
distasteful to them. Two Of the Flnglesd-
ers have been arrested aud partially ex-
amined. The Ofeuse Of the negroes OBJ
noxious TO those eOnspirators is that they
voted The Conservative ticket.
A correspondent of q Northern pa-
per has learned that the negroes in
Meeklenburg snd the sdjoining counties
of Virginia are now debating in their
leagues whether they shall take posses
sion of the land of the whites by violence
on the first ~OfJsneary, IL Congress do not
give it to them as they say hss been
promised. The Radical delegates from
Meeklenourg to the Convention are urg-
iug then TO take the lands Of the whites
at all hazards. None Of the negroes will
hire themselves unless they get posses
sion Of the entire plantation, horses,
mules and tools. The negroes are ali
armed and the whites are not. Much
fear Of . war between the races is felt in
this Portion Of the stale.
The Macon GA Journal and Mes
gives the following information
We learn from a prominent fellow-efti-
zen, Col. 5. Shorter. who has been in
correspondence with Senator Henry
Wilson, OF Massachusetts,, says the Ea-
iaqla Ae'0s, 10 reference to repeating the
tax on U gfe6t Southern staple. that he
has received letters from The Senator.
and also from Mr.. Colfax, the Speaker
Of the House OF Representatives. an !
nouncihg themseivesi 10 favor OF a prompt
OF the tax OF two and hal cents
per pound on cotton, sud making the
repeating law r~etro-scting IN its opera.
ton, so it will go back to the first of last
September.
The complete returns Of the Mary. '
land election are now reported, and are !
for Governor. Bowie, Dem. c. 7O2. :
Bond (Repub.l 2i,SS0; Democratic ma. {
Al ZIP, in q total vote of S5,492.
TortOla, one of the small British :
West India ISLANDS, between Virgin
.srda and st. Johns, containing an area
n forty eight square miles, has been
completely submerged by the food fol-
upsn the crest gale Of the 9Th
nst., aud II is reported that ten thousand
ives have been lost.
Subscriptions have been opened in I
for the relief Of the sufferers Of
Thomas.
THE New York Herald of the l4th |
avs Probably nobody who passed a !
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