Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-18
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

Extensive coal mines, it is report
ed, have been discovered on the east
ern shores of the Caspian Sea, by the
scientific exploring parties sent out
by the Russian Government.
The Central American States, il IS
reported, have established q national
currency in accordance with the stand
ard of purity, weight and denOmina-
tions OF the coin OF the United States.
The grain trade, by way Of New
| Orleans, is reported to be very flour
ishing, and the elevator warehouse IL
very busy in transhippihg wheat and
flour from the barges to the vessels en-
gagged in expectation to Europe.
Col. John Warren, the Fenian
prisoner recently released from an
English Jail, had an interview with
President Grant quite recently, and
received letter from him to Secre-
tary Fish, directing IN Investigation
into all the cases of Imprisonment
specified by Col. Warren.
A telegraph company has just
been Incorporated in France, with the
object Of connecting British Indie
with the French colonies in Cochin
China, by a line to start from Bang
kOk, and run through Siam and Cam
bOdia to Saigon, and be prolonged to
Cape st. James or Cape Paradan, and
thence by a submarine cable to Hong
Kong.
The London Times continues to
demand from the House of Lords an
immediate submission to the popular
will, with reference to disestGbllsh-
ment and disendowmeGt. The arti-
cles are pointed aud positive As the
Lords mE-t surrender, they had better
do so early and gracefully.
The appropriations for the service
of the police force of LOnden, FOR thp
year ending March Il, 1863, amounted
to 81, ,9S4 430, which, together with a
balance from the preceding year of
1924 40, yielded total of S4.2ZS, 900
applicable to annual expenses. The
actual payments, however, amounted
to 81, ,03S,330, giving a balance Of $780,
90, The Metropolitan Police Courts
cost 1851 ,0l0, and the Police Superan-
nuatiOn Fund received and expended
1878, l05, extending relief to 2I70 per-
sons.
A prize amounting in value To
$40 in gold, has been offered by the
PrusSiap Association for the Relief of
Wounded and Sick Soldiers in time of
War, for the hest essay upon the |
means of extending the operations Of |
the Society TO maritime cOmbatants. |
The authors are to base their cOnclu- |
siOns upon the experience Of former |
wars, especially those of recent date. |
No restrictions are placed on the ar |
or extent of the essay, and |
the language employed may be Ger
man, French or English. The prize |
will be awarded on the Both Of Sep |
tember, 1870, the birthday of the |
Queen of Prussia.
A Convention has been concluded /
between the United States Govern |
ment and that Of AEeEiO0, ander which
all claims on the part of corpora |
ti0ns, companies or private individu-
ais, citizens of the United States, upon !
the Mexican Republic" will be heard /
and adjusted for settlementbya mixed 4
The Instrument Is fe- +
Prospective IN irtGgt, embracing in its
scope al e,tSg5 which have occurred |
since the signature of the treaty of |
HldalgO, in the year 1913 |
Hundreds Of our citizens have claims !
upon Mexico, and this announcement /
will be good news for thei4 +
TIC Dubllc, both in this country !
and England, viii share ia the sor- |
row cQnSeGgel;t upon the announce /
Ilert Of the illness of George Peabody. |
His illness Is not Of a dangerous char !
acter, however, and his millioRa of !
i
unite IA one common wish for The !
c0nvalescence of the renowned phil |
anthrOpist, He spent few days at !
Newport r, l., bat the sea air was /
more damaging then beneficial to his |
system. and by advice of his My /
sicians he viii shortly visit lnc White /
Sulphur Spri.s,ss,: yaas, where he con-
tiGentBy -hopes his constitution viii !
regain its former NigCT, 4ie is Al pres |
ent stopping in Salem, Mass, at the |
residence of his nephew, George Pea
body Russell.
An application has been made to
the Legislature Of Chill for permission
to construct 2 Telegraph Fine across
TIE -AndeS, running from Valparaiso /
10 'BuenOs Ayres. The applications
ask for the privilege Of importing all |
the materials for the line duty free,
and an annual subsidy lor nine years
of 5000, when the wires has been laid |
as far az MendOza, and $4,000 when |
laid as far as BuenOs Ayres. The !
Legislature has also been asked to |
grant 10 a company the exclusive |
privilege for twenty-five years of |
establishing 4 line of steam tugs
through the Straits of Alageian. The
winter weather. has set in with un-
usuat severity in Chilli. Heavy rains
have fallen, and several shocks of
earthquake nave occurred.
-Duxbury, Mass, is alive with the
prospect Of the completion of the
French Atlantic Cable, which, il is
expected, viii reach that tCWTt' about
July 18th QuXpurt IS in Plymouth
county, and lies on Plymouth harbGr,
at the mouth Of Cape Cod Pay, thirty
miles southeast az boston. A double
WiTa land route Of telegraph is now
in course of construction from DuX-
bury to Boston, and another line il
being put up by the French Cable
Company along the Old Colony and
SCuth shore Railroad. The point
selected for the terminus of the line
from st. Pierre is at Rouseis Hum
mock, near the GuFnet Light, at the
entrance of plymouth harbor. The
HummOck is a cOnical hill of forty
acres, the highest point of which is
fifty feet above the level of the sea.
The price Of real..estste at Duxbury
las risen one hundred per cent. dur
ifg the last month.
A chief result of the Women's
Convention at Saratoga is the platform
adopted, Itdeelares that the question
of Woman's suffrage is a great moral
and political question; that the right
of every human being to share in the
government under which he or she
lives, should be recognized by that
government; that we claim fOr woman
the inherent right Of suffrage, as a hui
man being, and deny the right of
man to define her sphere, and em=
phatica1ly deny the right of one sex to
define the rights and duties Of another
sex. We gladly recognize the action
of the Irish Republican National Con-
ventions at Washington and Chicago,
and rejoice at the course of the MethO-
dist Episcopal Church, in admitting
women to vote on lay delegation. We
demand an amendment to the COnsti-
tution of the United States, TO secure
| the right of female suffrage, and unite
the cooperation of every man and
woman, irrespective of creed, color or