Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-03


Makes up the million and half of dol
lars of stock on the line of the road,
which Louisville asked before her bonds
for one million were to be Issued. These
bonds will now be promptly issued, and
the work on the road will be commenced
at once"
Prof. Tobey, Of Alabama, has ac-
ceptsd the Presidency of the Psducah
Female College.
The new Baptist Church at Paducah
was dedicated on Sunday the 21st ult.
The Herald, in speaking Of the ceremO-
MES, says: The dedication sermon Of DR..
Miller was able and eloquent, combining
simplicity with yig0r Of thought and
beauty Of expression. bis text, taken
from Hebrews K, 19 q, was well selected,
thoroughly discussed, and his entire re-
marks highly instructive and appropri-
ate. During the delivery he was listened
to with marked attention by the large
and intelligent audience assembled on
the occasion.
The Cincinnati Commercial of the
9th, says: Rev. Adam Poe, d. D., died
at his residence in this city, yesterday
afternoon. He was widely-knoWn
Eiuister Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and for the past sixteen years
has resided in our city as agent of the
Methodist Book Concern. He was an
able minister, and actively devoted to
his sacred calling. s
The Indianapolis Journal, of the 229,
says Senator Morton and family will
leave Washington for indianapolis dur
ing this week. The health OF the Sena-
tor hss been falling for some weeks, and
his physician demands that he shall
leave the Capital and seek rest and re-
creation.
The regular dramatic season OF the
Cincinnati National Theater was closed
on the 9th.
WIN. B. Beall, an old Cincinnatian,
a pioneer highly respected, died on the
Goth, at Eaton, Of heart disease, aged
seventy three.
-Ex-GOvernOr Denniso'. viii be nom.
mated by the Radicals in place of SAel.
labsrger in the Seventh Ohio District,
and beyond doubt will be defeated By
some clever Democrat.
"A correspondent Of the New YORK
World gives the following graphic de-
scrption OF "Grant at West Point -
He appeared, as On the previous evening,
in a suit OF plain black his shirt-front
and vest saggingn from the slight
stOOp in his shoulders mis- manner is
quiet, his eyes as Watchful, and his gait
as lazy as they usually are. The General
has an undeniably " hard - looking face,
to which, in respect to whatever of an
intellectual cast there is about it, the
worst .. bis portraits do more than JUS
tice. His bad complexion and the yell
ioWish brown tints of his grizzled beard,
mix so to speak, with 0ne another, pro-
ducing an effect quite Wretched. Nor is
bis expression, at its best, calculated to
reassure the bshclder. His much talked
of reticeRee appears by no means to be
the reserve of q calm, digniied, modest
gentleman. 1t resembles, rather, the
taciturnity, pent with the awkward self
consCioEs ness, Of one fearful Of expo sing
some intellectual frailty. Dor a great
man. Gen. Grant is not at all fasci-
mating.
The delay in completing the transfer
OF st. Thomas 20 the United Staten is
represented TO be accidental. The King
has inumated that Santa Cruz will also
be disposed Of to the United States ss
soon as the claims of France in connec-
ton with that Island are settled