Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-04-22
liams and Oscar Benedict. both popular

liams and Oscar Benedict, both popular
officers.
The Centralia, Capt. Rowland, leaves
on Thursday for Fort Smith and way
points on the Arkansas. She is the
United States mail packet, and Mr.. lay
Tor iseleFk.
The Marble City, Capt. Conway. leaves
on Thursday for Cairo and st. Louis.
The Clifton, Capt. Stein, will be in
port to-day and leaves on Friday for Gin
%cinnati.
Capt. Yerkes, with the Tempest, will
be in port to leave for al points on White
river this evening at 5 O'Clock.
The circulation Of the Radical concern
on Second street, yesterday, by actual
count, was 683 and falling fast.
We learn that J.. E.. Montgomery &
Co. have gotten cut an injunction in
the wharfboat question, which will be
forthcoming when the city makes an at
tempt to enforce their late order.
The tOw boat Bes came up last evening
and was lying at Hopefeld when we left
the levee.
Capt. Barry BegIey, Of st. Louis, who
married a young wife while he had an
old n and six children living, has been
up again before the courts Of that city,
and wife No. 2 was allowed g divorce.
The defense made was that the defend
AIT never married the plaintiff. and the
imputation cast On the plaintiff was that
she resided with the defendant without
any marriage between them. AT the
trial, which took place before Judge Re
Der, Miss Melville established beyond dis
pute the facts stated IN her petiIion-she
proved q certificate of marriage between
her and Capt. Begley, which had been
recorded by the defendant himself.
James Hamil and Henry Coulter, of
Allegheny, met recently and signed arti-
cles OF agreement to row for the scullin0
championship Of the United States and
$1,000 a side, on the SchuyIkill river,
Philadelphia, on Thursday, June 18Th.
Detroit papers mention renewed ae-
tivity in the business of ship building in
that city. The shipGards are all alive,
just now, with busy workmen pushing
new vessels TO completion for the spring
trade.
1t is understood the steamers City o.
Paris and Cuba, which sailed from New
York on Saturday, will race to Liver.
pool. Mr.. Cunard Is said to havs
wsgered $4,000 on the Cuba.
Are they civilized people? Wemsar
those to the north OF Us, where suci
crimes as these enumerated below
could be peTpe5rated? MOI The can
nibai, the dirt eater, the wild wasp o
the field, are their supsriOrs in every
thing but ~hypOcriey. Where else undel
the broad canopy Of heaven could sucE
scenes be enacted, except among tht
people who desscrated our graves suC
made our land the thester OF q grand car
nival OF outrage and blood? Listen {,
the following extract, which We TAX
from q Chicago letter to the Cairo Demo
cTGt:
The Ses-Bird catastrophe yet fills tn.
city with horror, as, DAY by day, bodie
are washed ashore, terribly burned
others indicating that death 6y drowning
only ensusd after a prolonged and violeE
struggle for life. The beach rangers, Iikl
the plundeTeFs who infested cur battle
fields during the war, do not their WoFl
by halves. The bodies are stripped
fingers cut off for rings, teeth smashe,
out for the dentists, the hair Of womel
cut ef for sale TO the dealers in fsls
hair, and the bodies thus mutilated ca
scarce be Unidentified by the most familia
eyes.
The Madison indy Courier says: Mr.
A. P. Speed, of BOOnviile, No, is in tn
city, acting in cooperation with Capt
DaHaveD, superintendent OF the Mjssis
sippi NaFigstiO nCOmpsny OF the Sout
and West, and with the assistasce {
many Of our Influential citizens, has g
cured the following named gentlemen 8
directors OF the said company z c
Whitney, President First National Bank
Capt. n. Powell, President Nations
Branch Bank, and Capt. s. NJ. Stradei
President of the F. & NJ. ms. Co. Cap
DeHaveu writes very en~cOursgingly &
bis success in other cities. The contract
for the new boat haYe all been awarde
TO Madison mechanics, add it will Civ
them a worlds wide reputation when Sd
leaves this port.