Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-29
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to the existing statutes prohibiting the
importation of COoIie labor, a bill viii
be introduced at the next session Cd
Congress rendering all contracts with
foreigners, made in foreign countries
for labor, null and void on arrival O
the labOrers in this country.
Mr.. \. B. Larcom, while boring an
artesian well at Santa Clara, Texas, a
few days since, at the depth of two
| hundred and eighty feet, struck a red
wood log two feet in diameter. He
bored through it, and the chips that
came up showed the wood to be per-
fectly sound. The log was two hun
dred feet below the sea level.
The Philadelphia Inquirer gives
an account of stone wall, nearly a
hundred feet long, well built, and still
in excellent preservation, that was
discovered on the old Camac estate, in
the northern part of that city By some
workmen, who, in digging the found
ations for houses, some ten or fifteen
feet below the surface, came upon the
WALL after digging through a strata of
soft sandstone, and beneath, the roots
of trees known to be over a hundred
years old.
"A citizen OF New Madrid informs
the Cairo Bbilefil of Monday that the
earthquake, felt here early in the pres
ent month, caused a violent upheaval
of the earth at point near GayOsO, in
PemiScOt county, one of the effects of
which was the opening of a frightful
orifice in a sandbar opposite that viii
lage. The waters of the Mississippi
rushed into the opening with the roar
of hurricane, and were thrown, by
the closing of the fissure, far up into
the air-a hundred feet or more.
The Cairo BHlIefia, of Monday,
says that nr. Harris has discovered a
deposit of coal, in that county, OppO-
site Commerce, Mo-, that is exciting
considerable interest in the neighbOr-
hood. Mr.. HIS Investigations have
been highly satisfactory. He has gone
through one stratum fourteen inches
thick, another four feet thick, and at
the depth of sixteen feet reached
what he considers the main seam.
This deposit is no doubt the same as
that to which we have made frequent
reference as having been tapped at
point on Mr.. Massey's land near Santa
Fe.
The Rookport On. Y Republic of
the 10Th says; "PtFscns " residing at
and near Troutburg, who were on the
shore of Lake Ontario on Saturday af-
ternOOn last, report singular rise and
fall of the water. About five o'clock,
when the lake was comparatively
calm, the water rose in a body about
two feet, and receded again to its or
binary level. The rise and fall did
not OCCUPY more than one or two nIin-
utes. AT frequent intervals till dark
there were similar risings and fallings
of from twelve TO fourteen inches.
The people judged it to be the effects
of an earthquake, though no shocks
We're felt"
The New York 7gib5Bie saws: " A
clergyman, it is stated, has been en-
gagged in swindling a Hartford Insu-
rance Company to the tune of $1,000;
and he is not to be prosecuted and
sent to the penitentiary, as he certain
ly would be if he were not q "nIiniSter
of the Gospel" Wedon't know what
right insurance companies have to
compound felOnies, but, if this be a
mutual corporation, all the insured
are cheated, some of them perhaps be-
ing i'll able to bear the loss. 1t is bad
enough for such a company to allow
itself to be fleeced, but to hush up the
after a gross swindle, isn't
course likely to recommend the eOrpo-
ration pursuing it to the confidence of
the public"
From the Austin (Texas) STATE
Gazette we learn that the two little
islands above and below that town are
gone, the bank where the ferry was is |
gone, trees and all, waste of low
sand alone remains, and as yet we see
no chance for another ferry near the |
city. We can probably get a good |
ford, when the water is low. The |
same paper says we have as vet moth |
ing definite from WebhervilIe even.
1t is known that the water swept over |
it from six To ten feet, carrying off |
some of the houses and dning much |
damage to the goods and furniture. |
The latest news from BaStrOp was that !
the water was in the main street and
people deserting their ten |
ements for higher ground. From La !
Grange we have nOthing-from San
Antonio the same-nO stages come in |
and the lines are down. 1t is known |
that great damage is done all along |
the Colorado as far as heard from. Ii |
would be useless to tTyand give de-
tails at present.
There is a growing sentiment In |
faYor of scandinavian unity through |
out Denmark, Norway and Sweden. |
The popular feeling in favor of union |
which has been strengthed by the |
of the heir apparent to the
Danish throne, son of Christian IN,
to the Princess Louise, only daughter
Of Charles XIV, King of Sweden and |
Norway, finds expression everywhere
in the mouths of the people in the |
stirring words of the song entitled |
'' The Union of the North" +" composed
by Plong, who is called the Scandina- |
Wan Tyrt@uS. On the 4th of August |
next great meeting -or, as we would |
say in this country, a mass c0nven-
the friends Of union is to be
held at Fredericksburg, the former |
residence of Frederic VI. Thus we
find Illustrated among the nations of
scandinavian race that tendency to- |
wards the absorption of small States /
and the formation of larger which we
have already seen in Germany. 1t is
the tendency of our modern civiliza-
ton towards aggregation and consoli-
dati0n. Barriers which are artificial
and conventional fall before it, and |
only those remain which have their
origin in natural differences of race.
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