Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-04
ARKANSAS ITE,Is.

There are only eight negroes in the
Arkansas Black Tan Convention.
Mr.. A. III. Woodley, Of the Searcy
Record, gave Frolich an apple weighing
a pound. After biting on one side for a
week be didn't see the core. Esq. Nc.
knight gave him one, not long since,
weighing q pound and three quarters,
which served him for grub during bis
/ entire New Orleans trip, and but for that
be would have Jared badly st the 81.
James.
-Astesmboat is expected st the Ssarcy
landing. The Record says: We learn
from Mr.. Hough at Prospect Bluff, that
there Is no such thing as fish trap chan
mel, and that boats need not fear to as
cend. The channel is clear, and that 1t
never was obstrueted. We lock for the
Brooks anyhow under these oircum-
stances.
The Little Rock Gazette takes
ground that the sitting Convention can
not pay themselves. They can levy q
tax, but such law is Of no effect until
their Constitution Is ratified by the peo-
pie. The pay Of Conventions is provided
for by the action of the Legislature. The
Gazette says: We take it that no man u
ordinary intelligence who has the moral
honesty to confess bis convictions Of
truth, win maintain for moment that
the so-eslied convention has legislative
powers. Several of the leading Radical
members of the body have on the floor OF
the house confessed as much. The Radi-
Gals, Boutwell, and Butler, of the House
of Representatives, and Morton, Of the
Senate, Of the United States, have recog-
nized the fact in Offering resolutions of
instruction and bills comforting upon
these Conventions the power to remove
State officers and establish provisional
governments to supersede those reeog
nized as now in existence. In face of
their own acknowledgements and their
own convictions, the Radical leaders In
the Convention have brought their fol-
lowers TO disposing of the State funds,
ordering the Investigation Of the affairs
of private corporation, and, as a crown
ing act In the assumption Of unsuthor-
lied power, to removing the State printer
aud appointing another.
AT Camden, AR. Wm. WhitRld
caught q man, on the night Of the 10Th,
stealing potatoes from his bank, and
failing to halt him with words, fired on
and killed him. He surrendered himself
on the following morning to the civil au-
thorities, and the matter was iuvesti-
gated by coroner's jury, and verdict
given In accordance with the facts.
Mr.. P. G. Leslie has purchased an
interest in the Black River Standard,
and becomes associated Ia its editorial
conduct.
The El Dorado Democrat takes the
place Of the Sentinel, with W. L. Adams,
late OF Montgomery, Ala, as editor.
The Democrat is a lively, handsome
sheet, and we hope 1t may meet with
great success.
-Tne Fort Smith Ne,0 Era Of the sth
Gays; Mr.. VIM. H, Hook returned on
Friday last from the Polk county mines,
whittier he had gone with a new supply
Of tools, portable forge, etc. He reports
progress. Day before yesterday We re-
ceived letter from Mr.. L. D. Smith, Ia
which he says the work of blasting and
sinking s shaft is prosecuted with great
energy, and that the prospects are de-
cidedly catering. A specimen of ore
brought up by Mr.. Hook is decidedly
rich in silver. The mines are continuing
to attract great attention throughout the
country, and enterprising men are rap
idly pouring into Polk county, hitherto
almost s terra incOgRita. Tne land Office
at Washington, Hampstead county, has
cent an agent 10 Dallas to facilitate the
locating Of slaims.
AT Washington, on the 14th, a negro
lsned Stephen Walker was shot aud
killed by Federal soldier named Frazie,
on account of a difficulty In which
v alker's wife was involved. There was
some talk of the military authorities
turning Frszie over to the civil courts.
-Msi Sparks, of the Pine Bluff Dis
patch, was thrown from his buggy,
breaking the thigh OF his crippled leg
and one Of his ribs.
Little Bed river is navlgabls to Scar
cy Lsndiog.
Mr.. VIM. Nichols, of Mississippi
county, lost one thousand dollars by lis.
tenipg with too eredulous ears to slight
of-hand gipsy woman, who professed to
make debtors come to tsw, by charming
double the amount of the money due.
She left the wrong pseka0e.- -vvh5as' u y