Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-06
TELEGREPhIC SuaNARY.
From our sun1ax,sEdltlon.


UTICA, n. Y, December 4.-The
Erie is frozen over. The mercury
stands 10 degrees above zero.
HAVANA, December THE Span
ish Bank viii issue 81, 600, goo in cur
rency as an additional loan to the
Government.
WASHINGTON, December 4.-The
apprehensions existing concerning the
safety Of the irOnclad Dictator viii be
quieted by the announcement that
dispatches have been received from
savannah, dated the Sd, stating that the
Dictator left Tybee Sound on the I'd
for Key West.
NEW ORLEANS, December 4.-First
race, mile dash, Morgan Scout was the
winner. Second race, three mile
heats, HeLn15O}d walked over the
track. Third race, mile dash, JET.
Jennings was the winner. Fourth
race, three-quarJeT dash, Mamie Ne
Many was the winner.
WASHINGTON, December A
large number of persons, including
several Representatives and Senators,
had interviews with the President to-
day, among whom were Horace Gree |
ley, Senator Lewis, of Va, Drake,
Cameron, and several from the South
ern States, with Representatives, Lane,
Van Horn, and many others, includ-
ing a delegation Of soldiers from New
York.
NEW YORK, December 4.-AleXan-
der Mcdonald, President Of the Mi
ners' Association of Great Britain,
who is upon a tour in this country OBJ
serving the labor element, addressed
the WOrkingnlan's Union last night.
In regard to Cinnamon on the Pacific
slope he said their importation should
be stopped, as it was the importation
of a slave element, worse in some re-
spect5 than the negro system that
brought about the war,
CHICAGO, December 1.-THE num-
Der of hogs packed here thus far is
2ll SOS, against 173, ,104 last season.
A man named Holmes committed
suicide here this morning by taking
laudanum. From & letter it is sup
posed that his home was in Marion,
ILL.,, and that he was laborlng under
pecnniary yembarrasments.
The cashier Of the dry goods house
Of J. Y. Farwell has been detected in
pilfering from his employer. The ag-
gFegate amount stolen is about $1,000,
but he returned S200G and was allowed
to leave for parts unknown. He mar
ried about ten months since and went
to living in fast style.
NASHVILLE, December 4, - The
County Convention to-day nominated
Neill 5. Brown, J. G. Thompson and
John Z. House as candidates for the
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A resolution was offered to sustain
the credit Of the State and voted down
by large majority.
The House to-day passed the bill to
ratify the lease Of the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad to the Nash
vile and Chattanooga Railroad Com
pany.
The House bill TO grant the right OF
way to the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
road was postponed.
RICHMOND, VA, December 1.-THE
question of the resumption of specie
payment was debated at great length
in the National Board of Trade to-
day. Mr.. Trezevant, of Memphis,
thought confidence in the Government
would restore specie value. The
whole subject was finally referred to
committee of seven, to report at this
session on all plans submitted. The
Committee consists Of MesSrs. Kirk
land of Baltimore, Chittenden of
New York, Ropas of Boston, Rich
ards of Chicago, Hutton OF Wiscon-
sin, Hooper of Connecticut, and
Haste of Charleston.
The following propositions were re-
ferred to this Committee:
BY Mr.. Panas, Of Baltimore: Oppos-
ing the expansion of currency and IA
Voring legislation looking TO the con-
traction and early redemption Of the
currency,
one by Mr.. Grubbs, OF Phila-
delphia, affirming that establishment
by the Government of a chartered
fiscal head and regulator, combining
private capital aud endowed with Il
sufficient SUM to present the surest
( remedy for the present currency evils.
BY Mr.. Herbert, of Baltimore: To
I abrOgate the 3-50s credit balance re-
serves; to prohibit the payment Of
the interest by the national banks of
! the credit balances; to eDforce the re-
/ demption Of the nation al bank notes
so that they may be sent back to their
! localities for reissue, and TO require
the reserves to be held in separate
bank vaults in money, and not in
credit balances, or. in other national
bank notes at distance; and, finally,
the repeal Of the ten per cent. tax on
the circulating issue Of the national
banks,
The twenty-ninth proposition, ask
ing Congress to require all American