Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-24

lidI OF lDe ulDeFhlce cause.
The American colonization society
viii organize colony of 1900 negroes
for Africa, at one hundred dollars each.
several leading members have been
arrested for contemplating the Rssassina-
tiOn of Bismark.
The foreign imports of San Fran
cisco for three months past, were So, 600,
600; exports, S4,T60, ,54I exports OF
treasure, S9, ,S25, ,304
-Thad. Stevens organ, the Washing
ton Chronicle, still shrieks for eOnfsea-
tion of southern lands, and their distri-
butiOn among the soldiers and negroes.
/ --BrOwnlow's administration in Ten
I nessee, says the Boston Post, presents q
pattern of radical rule at the south not
| at ali encouraging. He has kept the
state in continual commotion. There is
more strife, more violence and less seeu-
Tityin Tennessee, to-day, than in any
other state in the country.
! The Booth diary is published. He
/ did not repent killing Lincoln, and be-
/ lieyed he was Gods instrument to re-
move a tyTant.
The tax on the people of England
/ for the support Of the established church
exceeds 81, ,000, 600 year. All dissent
! ers, as the Wesleyans, Bsptists and Con-
| gregationRlists, have to help pay this
! tax.
The total arrivals at st. Johns this
! season from the seal fishery, up to the
29th ult., was sixty-fve vessels, with
I I28, 739 seals, being an average Of 1851
! foF each vessel employed.
! 1t is said the French look savagely at
/ the equestrian gtatue of the king of
I Prussia, which forms & conspicuous OBJ
/ ject at the Paris exposition.
Maine has thirty well organized base
I ball clubs, and there viii soon be q
match for the state championship, with
a silver ball for a prize.
-Bismark is featheTing his nest. He
I has Just paid S4l2, 500 for a country seat,
The release of Mr.. Davis took place
/ on a memorable anniversary--the two
| hundred and sixtieth anniversary OF the
/ settlement at jamestown.
/ Ladies who go to the opera at Chi
/ cago partake OF liquid refreshments
/ through straw during the performance.
! The northern press generally ap-
| prove Of the action Of the Virginia
/ United States court in releasing Mr.. Da-
! Wis.
There is more cotton planted in Ber-
rien county, Georgia, than ever before.
'Tis cultivated exclusively by " Johnny
LfeDss. Tree lGltJE DElLk uuIelthDl6-
Over one hundred Poles arrived at
/ Galveston a few days since. They are to
be followed By large number Of their
countrymen.
"A piliean, meas0siES nine feet from
tin to ftp Of the wings, aud having bill
ten inches long, was shot recently In
Kentucky.
Two szngniary battles have recently
been fought ID 0oHaia, In both engage
ments, the Turks, under Omar Pacha,
sustained signal defeats.
The Presbyterian general assembly,
0. g., conveyed at Cincinnati, Monday.
over two hundred members were pres
ent. DR.. ID. Z. GuFley, Of Washington,
d. c., was chosen moderator.
United States Consul Kirkpatrick
writes from Nassau, n. P, that contagi-
Gus diseases are prevailing there, and
that il would be desirable to quarantine
al vessels arriving at our ports from
Nassau.
At a fashionable wedding at Nor
folk, last week, the bridal pFesents we're
valued at ten thousand dollars. among
them were five thousand dollar roll of
graanbaelEs, two sets of diamonds, a
eaaels hair shawl, snd large quantities
Of silver plate.
The heir to the throne Of Japan, a
youth of sixteen years, is now in Paris,
with the intention Of passing five or six
yeare in England, France and America,
10 learn the languages and complete his
education.
The radical nomination IN the Dis
triet of Columbia, under the new ran
clise law, are all made. Their ticket
is composed exclusively Of whites.
The Boston Post sSys 4aaa&I1e
Juarez is becoming impatient to occupy
the apartments in Mexico so tastefGliy
fitted up by the Empress Carlotta.
Parties who have recently Travelled
through Ohio and Indiana give encour-
aging accounts of the prospect of the
fruit and grain crops. Fruit in some
localities h2s bsen slightly touched by
frost, but not eno-gh % DO any material
damage.
Pipes made of charcoal are coming
into use in Hartford. They are said to
absorb the nicotine better than mesr-
schaum, and are purified by holding
them for a few seconds in the blaze Of a
lamp.
The richest member Of the Connec-
ticHt senate is-sn [rishmaD, whose prop
erty is valued at g, 500, ,00G. He made
his money from an oil farm purchased
for $500.
AT Philadelphia steps have been
taken to organize missionary corps,
whose especial field shall be among
abandoned women.
The census OF 1870 will be taken
through the internal revenue depart
ment. The department took census in
November and December last, which
showed population Of 2i,5O5,SS2
"A proposition will be made to admit
Surratt to bail.
An exchange asserts that grasshop-
pers are so thick in Kansas that they
scoop them up with peck measure.
The Pennsylvania capitalists are
pleased with their Virginia tour, and
will invest largely in that state.
On the nineteenth instant, q man
named Munro Graybiel, at Port Cal
borne, G. w, shot his brOther-i9-lRw,
JOhn NalicODe, and was soon after shot
by his own brother.
AT the examination OF the naval
academy eighty-flve midshipmen will
be graduated. Fifty or sixty of them
will he sent on six months cruise, for
instruction in their duties.
Col. George j. Lay, for a number OF
wears A. ID. G. to the late Gen. Winfield
Scott, and gallant officer in the Consed-
crate army, died IN New orleans on the
sth instant. His remains were taken to
Mobile for interment.
-Phelan, the billiard player, offers to
back Joseph Dion, Of Montreal, the
American champion, for the sum of
5000 in gold, against any English player,
and follows up the wager with an offer
of sl5 600 for a game of two out of three
In the play of the three national stand
ard games OF billiards, the list TO be open
to all comers.
"A Miss Emily Schaumburg, Of Phil
adeInfia. who is described as very beau
tIfnI. with a moderately tall and slender
forul. and q clear ringing voice and
laugh. is creating 8 sensation in private
theatrical circles ofthat city. The Prince
~ wales pronounced her the hand
soonest woman he had seen in America,