Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-04

viii accordingly appoint in each comfy
Of the STATE q board or registers, composed
of one Rad4cal, one Conservative Repub-
hcan and one army officer.
The Montreal Neics says: We UNI
derstand on good authority that a secret
effort has lately been made on the part Of
certain Eenian leaders to induce the rank
and file" of that organization to again
venture upon a raid into Canada. A por-
tion OF them were to have been first sent
into the country by twos and threes, and
meeting by appointment at certain points
in some i9fthe larger towns of Dntari0 TO
try and 10 a little in the way of incendia-
rism and assassination, while a formula
bic armed force crossed the border. The
whole Plan, We are informed, was made
known to Mr.. Thornton, who at once
communicated with the Dominion au-
thorities. We do not believe that there is
much ground for anticipating another
Fenian raid, hui 1t Is gratifying to know
that the plans of these miscrsants are
known TO our Government almost as soon
as they are laid.
The CalifOrnians have attempted TO
prevent the landing of several consign-
ment OF Chinese femaIes,-aIleging that
they were all prostitutes, and were
brought over for immoral uses. Wenow
find il statedin a Hong Kong paper that
the coOEe merchants kidnap in the rural
districts Of China the Young girls whom
they export TO California to be consigned
to a life of prostitution.
Except for the disgrace which his
removal inflicted upon Secretary Rawlins
and Surgeon General Barnes, there is no
damaging incident in the retirement Of
Mr. Tonry because he married the limo
1 cent daughter of the innocent Mrs. Sur
raft. Mr.. TOnry is now in a much more
~remuneratiye business than that from
which he was displaced. He lives in Bal
timore.
The Christian AdrOcate gives its as
l sent { John Stuart Mills theory of wo-
mans right to the ballot. 1t says: The
right to vote is as good for a as for
man. Whether it is best that she should
go to the polls and participate in all pOlit-
ical measures and movements, opens q
large question, and u that the age is
anxiously debating.
There is abundant field for Mr..
BoutwelI's activity without departure
from the strict line Of his official duty in
the investigation of the revenue frauds in
| New Orleans. Would it not be well for
him 20 give to this very important sub
ject all the time n energy he has to
spare, and amuse himself with manOeu-
vering State elections afterwards?
An attempt is being made in BOur-
bon county, XIV, to raise a fund for the
purchase OF a home for Jefferson Davis in
that, his native State. A gestlenan from
Louisville has offered, if $4,000 or more
shall be subscribed to the fund, to give a.
building site for a house, with ten acres
attached, within four miles of Louisville.
Official information has been re-
ceived at Washington. that the through
mails, Northern and Eastern, which left
New Orleans Ell Monday last, together
with the through mails sent from points
between New Orleans and C~larksviHe,
Tenn, were burned in the Memphis rail-
way disaster.
NJ. Theirs has been guilty of a not
which is not at all bad. A Deputy OBJ
served TO him, aprop0s of the Emperor's
recent message proposing legislative and
administrative reforms, Wen, liberty IS
brought to bed al last" Yes" was the
reply" but il is by a Csssarian opera
toni"
DR.. Mudd has recalled nearly all his
former practice. His innocence Of COM
plicity with the late Mr.. John Wilkes
Booth IS conceded, and his old nsighbors
love him the more for the injustice which
he has undergone, and for the Christian
patience with which he has suffered it.
His health, however, is much impaired.
Miss Winnie Ream has arrived at
Rome. SO mas EsE east of the late Mr..
Lincoln, WhicE some mere mechanic is 10
do into marble under her supervision.
Eighteen months will be required, for as
lOag as which Miss Ream has taken a
studio, and is TO 20 on bustsin the interim.
The London Times is not only desi-
ron that American power should be mag
nihed by the annexation Of Cuba and
Mexico, but il is also willing that the
growth Of our population should be in
creased by Chinese immigration.
The British Museum has recently
come into possession of an exquisite an
tique bronze figure, two and a half feet in
hight, and in excellent preservation. It
belongs to the Macedonian period, and is
supposed to have formed part OF a group
of Cupid and Ganymede.
VI. f. Maury considers Chinese
lShsF much more Intelligent, skilful and
effective than negro labor. and considers
The Introduction of it, under proper reg
alatiOns, would be highly beneficial to
the South.
The Chinese have, in five gears,
paid out money to the value Of hun
drCd millions of dollars. The Chinese
Government is forced to admit this dead
ly drug within its d0minions by Christian
powers.
The Chinese giant, Chang, eight
feet six inches high has come over IA tGe
steamship Denmark. As a Monaghan he
is something wonderful; but giants of his
are not uncommon among the
Caucasians. Where's Bsrnum2
Milton Alden, the patentee Of Al
lOFs6 hoe cultivator and Of several
other agrieHitE "a implements, was caught
in a revolving Wheeist lis establishment
IN Auburn, y. N.,yesterday afternoon and
instantly killed.
The effort by the Good Templars Of
BUHaIo TO enforce the Sunday Liquor law
IN two of the informers before
he POlice Commissioners being attacked
md maltreated ia TIE streets yesterday
afternoon BY some indignant tlgplers.
Rev. Sanford HalbeFt, editor Of the
78ristiaH 4dUOeafe, a political and religi-
MS paper in Buffalo, was thFashed on
Thursday evening bv Norman HOlley,
of the Collector of Customs of the
,OTt Of Buffalo, for a defamatory article
10 himself and father.
The inhabitants of Pittsburg COM
lain that the smoke CT the Fort Wayne
locomotives deposit SCOT on tLeiF flowers.
Hon. j. S. Setford, Of Carver eouaty,
recently found a pistol imbedded
p q maple tree, where il had probably
'ecR 3 hundred years.
The charges on the Pacific Railroad
re 50 high that Chicago FIRMS have their
shipped by steam 70 New York.