Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-06

Sabbath school, non-sectarian, with
125 pupils.
The ezar has proclaimed an amnesty
to Frenehmen exiled to Siberia for par
ticipation in the Polish struggle.
The Robin Hood brought 100 tDrs
Of wheat from San Francisco to New
York.
Napoleon has obtained sl2,O0O,OOO in
specie from Mexico.
Gen. John L. Swift has been ap-
pointed deputy collector Of customs at
Boston.
The Montgomery county PENN
almshouse was burned on Monday night
last. Loss $50, 900. -
Gen. Sol. Meredith, Of Indiana has
been nominated by the president for
surveyor general of Utah.
The male spinners and some Of the
carders of Lawrence, Mass, have struck
for ten hours.
Vigorous measures have recently
been adopted to put stop TO brigsnd-
age in the Papsl dominions.
The Paris exposition was formally
opened on Monday by the Emperor Na-
poleon in person. Over one hundred
thousand persons were present.
Gen. Augur and staff, and fifty pss-
sengers, are snow bound at Lone Star
station, on the Northern Pacific railroad.
Work has already been commenced
1 in removing the rubbish OF the Lindell
hotel in St. Louis. It is te be immedi-
ately rebuilt.
The secretary of the treasury has
| designated Helena, Montana, as a port
of entry for the collection district Of
Montana and Idaho.
The contract for government trans
portation on the Missouri river, for q
term of eight months, has been awarded
to William Mcpherson.
John A. Halderman, anti-radieal,
was elected mayor of Leavenworth, and
Samuel KimbaIi, mayor Of Lawrence,
Kansas, on Monday.
The Juarist forces at latest accounts
had advanced so close to Vera Cruz, that
the garrison were able to fire upon them
from the walls.
The receipts from customs during
March reached the unusually large
amount Of 6,OOO,O 900. The internal
revenue receipts amount to 100000
The public debt statement wiz be
forthcoming on Thursday. The coin
balance in the treasury Is SI07 1000, 600,
including about SIS, 100000 of gold eertifi-
Gates.
Jacob Kaufman an old and respect
able citizen Of Mansfield, Ohio, who was
on Monday elected treasurer Of the city,
died the same night Of congestion Of the
brsin.
The British secretary for the colo
MES, referring in the house Of lords to
the cessiOn Of Russian America to the
United States, recently, said it was
matter of indifference to England.
Wyoming is the name of a new and
splendid steamship which is to ply be-
tween Savannah and Philadelphia.
A. A. Campbell announces the dis
eovery of q mine Of yellow copper, near
the East Tennessee mine, and equal to
any in Ducktown.
A sweet potato from the Azores,
weighing thirteen and quarter pounds,
end thirteen inches in circumference,
was recently on exhibition in Boston.
1t is estimated that the population of
lows was swelled at least 5000 BY i'm
migration during 1866. This number
will probably be exceeded during the
present year.
1t is said that peaches are grown
With success in fifteen and eighteen inch
pots. ( good variety is the Buchanan
and Dwarf There is s large house de-
voted to this fruit near Philadelphia.
When in blossom hive Of bees is placed
in it.
Bishop Whitehouse, of the diocese of
Illinois, has Just returned to his home in
Chicago, after an absence Of eighteen
months in Europe. He was enthusias-
tically received.
The ship Southern Rights, Capt.
Ross, was cleared from Charleston for
Liverpool on Saturday, by Messrs. Willis
z Chisolm, with 27s bags sea island and
2SI3 bales dplSnd cotton.
-Advices from L tab and Colorado say
the weather was intensely cold in March /;
in some localities the mercury fell forty
degrees below zero. Snow was very
deep, and floods are looked for in the
mountain districts. A large number of
horses and cattle have been frozen to
death
In digging a cellar on the corner Of
Superior and Erie streets, Clesveland,
the other day, the petriied body of a
man was found, together with q number
OF knives, arrow-heads, ETC., as usually
/ found in Indian graves. One Of the arms
was accidentally broken, but otherwise
the body is nearly perfect.
A Mobile exchange says At . recent
fancy dress and masquerade ball in Paris,
Miss Beckwith, of New York, appeared
as the Greek slave. That may do very
well for Paris or New York, but If we see
ANYTHING Of the sort here we shall call in
! the police.
A New York paper, noticing the
arrest of Parsons, the Niagara Falls
postmaster, arrested for opening letters,
! saws mildly: "He was a victim OF q
mania to know the contents Of every
letter placed in his hands"
From official records it appears that
s7s4 wounded soldiers have been fur
nished with artificial legs, 9l3i with
arms, forty four with hands, nine with
feet, at cost to the United States ofover
$3.50, 600.
A Miss Enright of st. Joseph, Mo-,
! took the white veil on the 18th. She is
to enter the order Of st. Ursula at the
end Of two years.
The Lowell, Mass, Courier, says
Moses Wingate, of Haverhill, is probably
the Oldest mason in the world. He is
ninety-eight years old, and has been a
mason sixty-four years.
A murderous brute named Reeves
strangled an infant child of his to death
few days ago in Warner county, Iowa.
The monster refused to allow his wife to
have the infant in bed with them, but
the wife persisted, when the murderous
wretch committed the terrible deed.
The newspaper called the Isthnae de
Sttez says that the French contractor,
Dussaud, has entered into an agreement
with the vieeroy of Egypt to construct
two new ports, the one military and the
other commercial They win be sepa-
rated by an immense jetty, traversed by
a railroad. The works win Gost l5,0Oe,'
900 Of francs, or S9,OO0,0O0.
-Trichins spiralis has not confined
: Itself to the Hall family, in Springfield
Mass. ASIr. Norton, and son Of 10,
seph Solace are afflicted with It. Mrs
Hall Is still in critical condition. In {
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