Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-28
WASHINGTON.
Great Deficiency in the Tobacco
Crop.
The President and the Mississippi
Election.
Grant Declares Himself the Friend
Of Acorn.
The Supreme Court and the Yerger
Case.
ETC.. ETC.. Etc.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, october H.-lnfOr-
nation received at the Department of
Agriculture shows d falling off of one
third of the tobacco crop in Virginia
and Maryland and throughout Ken
lucky, and the West about one-tenth.
A reported frost last night in the
West will cause further deficiency.
Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, had a
conversation with President Grant
yesterday on the subject Of the Presi-
Dental election. He called the Presi-
dents attention to a published tele-
egram to the effect that Judge Dent
was represented as saying that the
President sustained him as candi-
date for Governor. The President
said he had himself seen the state
ment, and had enclosed it to Judge
Dent, asking him if he had been cor
rectly reported. To this he had not
as yet received a reply.
The President further stated that in
August last he addressed Judge Dent
a letter advising him not to connect
himself with the Conservative move
ment against the party now support
ing AlcOrn. The former being, he
said, the enemies Of the Administra-
ton and the Government. While he
was on good personal relations with
Judge Dent, he nevertheless felt
bound by public duty to oppose his
election and desire the success of Al
corn.
These views he unqualifiedly and
emphatically repeated to Senator
Thayer, and that he believed that Al
corn would be elected, sfrcm what he
had heard. And in conversing on the
subject of the XVth Amendment to
the Constitution, he expressed the
hope that the Nebraska Legislature
would be convened this coming win
ter, in order to ratify the Amendment.
The sessions of the Nebraska Legisla-
ture are triennial, and the next regu-
lar session Will not take place till jan
uary, 1871.
in the Supreme Court to-day Chief
Justice Chase said in reply to the sug-
gestion of Mr.. Phillips yesterday, that
it was undoubtedly q matter of dis
cretion with the counsel when
to move for a writ of habeas
corpus in the Yerger case. The
point of jurisdiction having been
determined, the Court would hear a
motion for the writ whenever the
counsel should see proper TO make it.
The following order has just been
issued by the President of the United
States:
EXECUTIVE ORDER No.
All communications in writing, In
tended for the Executive Department
Of this Government and relating to
public business of whatever kind, in
Guiding suggestions for legislation
claims, contracts, employment, APP
pOintments, removals from Office, and
pardOns, must be transmitted through
the department to which the case OF
the subject matter of communication
properly. belongs. Communications
otherwise transmitted viii not receive
attention,
BY order of the President.
Signed HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. ID, 1869.
Notice is hereby given TO applicants
for Office that there are no existing va
cancies in the Department, either at
home or abroad, and vacancies here
after occurring will be filed only on
written applications addressed to the
Secretary and fled in the Department.
The Department will not receive ap-
plicatiOns personally, and no answers
viii be made to applications unless
the applicant is appointed, and in no
case will papers filed in support of an
application be returned to the appli-
cant. Attention to this notice win
save applicants much incoAvenience.
(Signed) HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
A general order just issued from the
War Department directs that the fol-
lowing places be made general depots
of funds for paymasters named below,
subject only to orders from these
headquarters and the Paymaster Gen
eral: New York City, with Brevt.
Brig. Gen. Brown, as Assistant Pay
master General; New Orleans, with
Col. Mcclure, as Assistant Paymaster
General; San Francisco, with Brevt.
Brig. Gen. Lenard, as Deputy Pay
master General; st. Louis, Brevt.
Brig. Gen. Fry, as Deputy Paymaster
General; and all other payTuasters
will continue as heretofore under the
immediate command of Department
and Division Commanders.
The Congressional SUBCOMMITTEE
On Foreign Afairs is in session to-day,
10 investigate the alleged maltreat-
ment of Bliss and Masterman in Par
aguay. Admiral Davis, the only wit
ness examined, denies that they were
treated as prisoners ON board the
Wasp, or received any cruelty. He
had no confidence in Bliss, and was
obliged TO keep him under surveil-
lance. He discredits the statement
that Bliss was tortured by Lopez, as
he asSerts.
The Commissioners appointed by
the President to examine and report
on the construction of the Pacific Rail
road, have been in session here sew
eral days, and expect to conclude
their report by the end of this week.
They have travelled over the road b.
daylight at a rate of only ten miles an
hour, but stopped to measure and ex-
anime all bridges and trestles over
three feet high.