Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-27
TIE NEME

-"#-aH - ~ $500 49, IL
cannot get home 10 spend the holidays
The New York Jockey CLUB are to
have a 500, 600 club horse.
A st. Thomas letter says that, up to
the I'd inst, there had been five hundred
shocks Of earthquake telt there.
AT Nashville the Black and White
Crook are to be succeeded by a Red one.
Italy has set the example Of rspudia.
ting 2 wal debt.
Wall street, says q dispatch, is in
terror over the proposition to tax the
bonds.
The wife of z. A. Pollard made her
first appearance as an actress in BaIti-
more on the 18th.
-HOn. A. II. Stephens will deliver
his first lecture, on the condition Of the
South, at Cooper Institute, New York.
The Chicago Jail " ghost" was pro-
duced by a Prisdner blGwing through
an unused gas pipe,
1t Is said Elk GOV. Harris proposes to
come to Memphis to edit q paper-doubt.
fuI.
One hundred and thirty-four hands
in the ordnance department of the
Washington Navy Yard, being half the
force, were discharged yesterday.
Colonel Barker was married pri-
vately in Washington, Monday even
ing, Gen. Grant giving away the bride.
Thousands who attended 1T the church
Tuesday, 70 witness the public ceremony,
were disappointed.
The President, on Tuesday, detsrm-
ined TO remove Gen. Pope from the com
mand Of the Third District. Gen. Meade,
having been specially called TO Wash
ingtoD, was in consultation with the
President yesterday, and will probably
be appointed b succeed Gen. Pope.
Dispatches RECEIVED at Washington
say that IN the counties OF Craven, Jones
and LeDoir, North Carolina, great alarm
is experienced on account Of assaults
committed by army blacks on unoftend-
ing whites. Prompt measures, it is said,
are necessary TO restore quiet and conf
dence.
Col. McArdie was arrested some time
ago under orders from Gen. ORD, the
District Commander. Upon THIS yaet a
case is being made up By the imprisoned
editor, designed TO test the constitution
ality of the whole system Of military re-
construction.
The collection of the direct tax in
the South is suspended for the present, in
consequences q the unusual distress prey
alent there.
-Ninety-seven million dollars only
have been wrung from the peoole since
July last by the Internal revenue.
"A memorial Is In circulation among
TIP lesding cotton factors of Charleston,
s. G., praying Congress, in view Of the
PROSTATE condition Of the planting inter-
est, to make an appropriation 70 assist
the factors in making advances to
planters.
"A detachment Of troops left Macon.
Ga, Tuesday for MiiledgeYille. It Is
supposed TO have some connection with
the FreasureE's refusal to pay the money
order OF Gen. Pope and the convention.
Prince Alfred Was met by %, 600
school children, all singing, when ne ar
rived at Adelaide, Australia.
The emperor Of Chiaals name d
" High Prosperity His fatherls name
was &" Perfect Bliss"
-Advices from Northwestern Arkan-
sas notice the discovery Of RICH gold
bearing quartz in Red river mountains,
sixty-fye miles west Of Fort Smith.
-Fenianism il the sbsOrbing topic In
England, which proposes to better the
condition Of the Irish, as the best means
OF suppressing 1t.
The railroad bridge I've Onion river,
Vt, six hundred feet long and six feet
wide, was destroyed by IRE Tuesday
evening.
We have details of recent battles be-
tween the allies and the Paraguayans, IN
WHICH the former after varying fortunes,
%yietoFs.