Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-07

The internal revenue collector TODAY
seized seventy-four barrels of smoking
tobacco in the store of a Front street
merchant, which had not paid the tax.
Ten barrels of whisky were seized at an
other place, from the same cause.
1t has been generally understood that
smuggling, on al extensive scale, has
been carried on upon our long and ex-
posed Canadian border, but it is perhaps
not as well known that the same contra
band trade has recently assumed nearly
as large dimensions upon the Rio GFande,
but such it seems is the fact. The secre-
tary of the treasury is doing all in his
power to prevent it, and has decided to
employ mounted inspectors in the dis
trict OF BRACES Santiago, Tex, but it is
doubtful whether this measure will pro-
duce any other effect than cause the
c~ontraband traders to be more wary.
An Australian paper announces the
recent discovery Of 8 new species Of
LIQUID yum or oil ia that country. A
tract Of land not less than ten miles
square has been discovered, which every
where abounded with bubbling springs
of this gum or oil, while all around were
vast quantities of gum solidified into the
consistency of India rubber. This,
when exposed to a fire, burns with a
bright flame, accompanied by a thick
smoke and a smell like old grease. The
substance is light and floats in water.
One of the editors of the Savannah
Nea0s, in company with several other
gentlemen, recently paid a visit to a
number Of the rice plantations about
Savannah. OF the prospects he says
We found some of the fields planted and
the rice up, or sprouting, with good pros
poets. But great delays are occasioned
In some of the fields by dilapidation Of
trunks aud fiOodgates, and in some in
stances by labor troubles. The condl-
ton of the buildings, after the ravagss of
the war, Is sad to contemplate. The
prospects for rice this season seem very
good, but the crops will of course be
much smaller than in the olden times.
A circular of the LIST SAYS of bread
stuffs in New York: The market for
-four in the fortnight past has been firm. |
although as prices advance there is less
activity in the trade, buyers purchasing
for immediate wants only. Causes
have heretofore affected the arti-
Gle are still in force, and the tendency in
prices is upward. The rates at all the
western ports are high, and the short
Of good spring and winter wheat
is becoming daily more apparent, which
leads to the conclusion that, unless the
consumption Is materially decreased, (of
there is not much probability
or even higher rates are not I'M
likely until another crop is at hand.
The introduction of the article from
California {via Panama. in some con-
siderable quantity, and its acceptance
BY the trade is Of great importance in
he present. situation of the market, and
serves to prevent as large an advance as
would otherwise take place. Nearly all
he supplies by the last steamer have
been freely taken for consumption, leav-
the market now quite bare. There
s no new feature as regards wheat-the
took is decreasing fast, and with the
vide range there is in quality, prices
7ary considerably, but holders lin view
If the extreme rates prevalent at the
vest and the probability of very light
at the seaboard) are firm for all
descriptions OF California the market
8 better supplied by late arrivals from
Francisco and England, and the