Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-14

CONSERVATION in the department
Gov. Wells, of Louisiana, is expected
here Tomorrow.
The applications by mail and telegraph
for the vacant assessorship at Cincinnati
exceed a dozen already, and more arr
promised. The contest is es exciting Al
that over the Cincinnati postoffiee las
winter. The president seems in no hurry
to make the appointment.
The cabinet to-day held its first meet
ing since the presidents return, and the
important question 50 fully canvassed Of
late, relative to the power OF military
commanders under the reconstruction
law, to remove state and municipal Off
cials Of state governments denominated
by act of congress, as PROVISIONAL, was
among the matters which were discussed.
4 It is understood that the attorney gen
eral holds that such removals can Only
be made when the state or local officials
are impeding the enforcement Of the re-
construction law, and only then in the
way provided by the said act. They
must first be arrested on that charge, and
tried in the manner provided in the law.
II convicted and sentenced, the office
would, of course, become vacant. In
other words, it is explained that the
military commanders have no more
power over these officials than they have
over any other person in the military
district which they command and that
they must all be proceeded against in
some way whenever they are charged
with hindering the enforcement Of the
law. AS the logical consequence it
is further maintained that these
commanders have no legal power IN
der the reconstruction act to fill any
vacancy in the state or municipal Office
created in this way, any more than they
have to fill the vacancy on the bench,
occasioned by the death Of judge hold
/ ing his office under any OF these state
/ governments. These were the points
made by the general and other
! members of the cabinet, but as the full
| opinion had not been written out, no
! final conclusion was arrived at. If this
view be adopted by the president, there
/ is no doubt but he will restore Gov.
! Wells to his place and reinstate the dis
| placed Mobile officials, though the
| southern men here asking for such action
/ fear that it will not take place until the
! time for the summer session Of congress
/ is passed.
Gen. Gehenck, chairman Of the con-
! gressional republican cOmMittee, re-
| turned here tonight, and reports that on
Yesterday that committee met the ia
/ tiOnal executive committee in Philadel-
phia. of which Gov. Ward is chairman,
/ with reference to the organization of the
south and the approaching elections gen
/ orally. A dehdite plan of 6o-opsEatiOn
/ of the two committees was agreed upon,
| in which all conflicts will be avoided
and the efficiency of such committees
be promoted by the power and assistance
| of the other. The committee have dsei-
/ ded to distribute 5000 copies OF the po-
| litical manual prepared by the clerk Of
| the house.
/ Among the questions Of novel interest
/ before the attorney general, is one arising
uDdsF the internal revenue act laying a
/ taKOf ten per cent. on the notes Of parties
or institutions of all sorts circulating as
/ money, which in this case involves the
question whether the certificates pro-
I posed to be issued by the state of Ala
/ bama are bills of credit, and as such pro-
| hibited by the constitution Of the United
l States.
: The judiciary committee will reassem-
/ bic on the 2Gth inst. The clerk of the
committee is now arranging the i'm
peachment evidence for submission to
the house in case a quorum shall be
present in July.
The state department learns that, under
instructions, Mr.. Adams interposed in
the cases of the Fenians convicted in
Bn6l4n, Col. Burke, McCafferty and
McClure,) all OF whose sentences Of
death have been commuted. In the case
of McCafferty a writ Of error in review
of the conviction was at the suggestion
Of his counsel sued out in behalf Of the
prisoner at the instance aud the expense
of the United States.
STATE iTENs.
-Yhe 4Gily ABlerjcGn t5li69 Of the
18th says Col. Joe B. Cliff is the eonser-
vative candidate for Warren county.
Capt. Sheafe, an honorably discharged
union officer, will make the race for the
senate, as a conservative, against J. b.
Rodgers, the radical candidate in that
district. Capt. Sheafe is a resident Of
Coffee county, and Mr.. Rodgers of War
ren.
George Tate, the negro who shot
Frank Morton, a soldier of the fOrty-fifth
United States infantry last week, at
Chattanooga, has been bound over to the
criminal court which meets on the 18th
inst. The soSu&r, at first thought to be
mortally w6unded, is slowly recovering.
The Nashvil Gazette of the 18th
inst. says the weather is so hot there
that the best quality Of pepper sauce is
no where in comparison. It is away
up in the nineties."
The same paper, speaking of the regis
trar Of Sumner county, is not very COM
plimentsgy. dear what is said We
have thought Browniow a bsast sl-i
qeneris, incapable Of reproduction. But
Sumner county, famous for stock raising,
has produced q creature that, in its
sphere, promises to be a second Brown
lowdld oeis little creature is named
Something Mckinley. 1t has been ap-
pointed commissioner of registration, has
annOa anca6 itself a candidate for the leg
islature, and nov We are told it has been
promoted to q captaincy In the mill
tia ~ Isn't that real nice ? The same
creature to make the voters, to gFesthe.
voters, and to hold the bayonets t0fas sad
breasts to ensure their voting for itself
and EroWnlow
"A negro carriage driver went to
sleep while driving in the streets of
Nashville on Monday, and the cOnse-
quence Of his carelessness was a grand
runaway and overturn Of the barouche,
in which was Miss Mollie Page and Miss
Briton, both of whom were badly
bruised, and the former had her ankle
dislooated.
Very properly the Nashville street
railway company have decided to limit
the negroes to tI0O special cars for their
use. The one already in operation has
heretofore failed to pay expenses except
only on Sundays, and the additional car
conceded to their riotous demands is
quite as great a concession as they ought
30 ask, and certainly more than they de-
serve.
The Brownlow party in Tenpessee,
says the Knoxville Commercial, are as
sure to be defeated at the August cleo
ton for state officers as that the world
shall stand until that time, unless the
registration of voters shall be destroyed
in the several conservative counties, and
the expression of the voters Of the state
suppressed at the ballot box. The people
are now fully aware Of what is being
done by the Brownlow party, and they
begin to see Just where it is leading them
to. To go further on this schedule is to
bring about their own ruin and to plunge
our state into hopeless bankruptcy. The
people so understand it.
-BrOwnlOW announces in general or
ders No. the appointment OF Joseph A.
Cooper-"an experienced and prudent
man ''-as his lieutenant generalissimo
in and over the twelve companies of
militia already in the service OF the state,
and says he will not call-into the pay Of
the state more than fourteen companies
in all, unless the rebeiliOus conduct OF
the people shall render it necessary.
The Bristol East Tenn Ne1Os says
Friends from different portions of upper
East Tennessee inform Us that the pros
poets for Etheridge are improving daily.
Many changes are reported. The heavy
taxes the people have to pay is knocking
the scales from their eyes, and causing
them to think of and investigate the is
sues of the day.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Madison Examiner is informed
that a farmer Of Burke county has just
sold the last of his crop of wheat. He
had sixty acres thus planted, that made
on an average twenty-five bushels to the
acre, all of which he sold at s. 80 per
bushel, making an aggregate of SSz50-a
handsome yield, and rather more than
half as much again as the land would
have produced If planted in cotton at
last winters prices.
The NeW Era learns that the rice
mills at Savannah are being put in good
repair preparatory to the seasons busi-
moss and that tba Vhaat crOp in Walker