Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-21
MEMPHIS APPEAR
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 81, 1859.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
NEH5S OF THE DAY.

Gen. John B. Gordon will deliver
the literary address at the ensuing COM
mencement of Andrew Female College.
at Cuthbert, Ca.
There are not Offices enough in Ala
bama as well as TENNESSEE. and the con-
sequence is the Radicals are qGarreling
about who shall have them. " t-
The President has not vet taken
preliminary action for submitting the con-
stitutions Of Mississippi and Texas to
those States respectively.
In 1853 a gypsy propheSied to the
Countess de Reus, eonsort of c Juan
Prim, that she would n day wear a royal
diadem. Is that prophecy about to be
realized?
Merchants and bankers in New York
city are organizing a regular detective
force, with IN experienced chief, TO be
paid and supported by the mercantile and
banking community.
Caleb Cushing, seventy years old,
looks ten years younger. in 1888, when
in the Massachusetts Legislature, he was
commiserated as the victim Of cOusump-
ton.
Bismarck lately said, in reply to
some English critics on his policy, "IfI
were an Abysiniam or 4 Hindoo, or even
an American, I might perhaps care what
England thinks. But being a European,
| do not.n
Wardwell the piOus superintendent
ofthe pcnitentiary at Richmond, Va, who
was iuthe habit OF ringing the cOnVicts up
10 prayers, has just been suspended bvl
Gen. Candy for general rascahty.
The Clinton (La.) Democrat SAYS that
resident Of that place gathers a sufficient
quantity Of tea leaves from the Chinese
tea Plant grown in his garden to moro
than suffice for the requirements of his
household.
Gen. John A. Logan has been
elected Conmander-in-Chief Coy. Fair
child, OF Wisconsin. Senior Vice-Com-
mander, and DIR. s. b.. Wylie Mitchell,
Surgeon-General of the Grand Army Of.
the Republic.
The HoJld'S Washington CORES
pOndent saws: Nh. Fish, i'm the opinion
Of wise men here, has demonstrated his
capacity to rescue us from the business
loss which hotter heads would W cost
U.S.
In the vicinity of Augusta, Ca,
there are twelve cotton mills, with 70,OO0
spiud1es and over one thousand looms,
demanding a minimum average, for daily
supply, Of nearly n hundred bales Of
cotton, all Of which Is drawn from that
market.
The Charlottesville (Na.) Chronicle
understands that d gentleman from Eng
a has purchased from Lewis Turner,
Esq, OF Nelson county, Va, between
three and four thousand acres Of land, on
which, and other lands he viii purchase
in the vicinity, he intends setting eight
hundred English families.
The Philadelphia papers are advo-
eating q direct line of four steamships be-
tween that port and New Orleans. They
foresee the great increase Of commerce to
be brought about 10y the divergence Of the
grain trade from the Eastern railroads
down the Mississippi river, and are of the
opinion that Philadelphia may reap some
of the benefits.
The Where erevasse has, says the
New Orleans PiodyWRe Of the 18th, as
sumed such proportions as to render all
efforts at closing il utterly futile. The
breach in the levee is now several hun
dred feet wide and Of great depth, and the |
water of the river swSag over the pIanta-l
ton and land adjacent, back to the Gulf
unimpeded. al
The falls recently discovered near
Allegheny Springs, in Virginia, and said
70 be 1900 feet high, are represented to be
about two-thirds Perpendicular for a dis
lance Of between haif and three-guarters
of a mile; unbroken falls of one hundred
feet sometimes descending over solid
rock. The river below is a succession of
falls for one hundred and fifty yards. over
a solid bsd OF rock. Tho scene Is spoken
Of as wild and grand beyond all power OF
description.
We regret, says the Americas Gal
C0Hysef, that we eannor YET report any
thing favorable from the growing cotton
in Southwest Georgia. This morning was
decidedly cool, sufficiently 50 TO greatly
injare, If not Kill the cotton Intelligent I
planters tel US If there is not a change \
within the mex few days an the cotton az
ready planted will be a complete loss.
We haze been informed, says The
Augusta, fGa.) CbRStifNtiOndliSt, that on
Tuesday last, about O'Clock, a slight
shock Of an earthquake was sensibly felt
At three different points at the sand Hills,
as also at the house OF alady seven miles
distant fromIhat village. 1t was attended
with Percepiible wbration Of thesvalls Of
buildings rs marked by q startling crash
of crockcry, and awakened considerable
anxiety.
Fred Douglas in his speech at the /
AntNSIaveFy Societys a~imfversary. ssid
referring to the negro" Give him the
and as in your hOar of suffering he
ont his iron arms and touched |
yout standEed With fingers Of steel etc.
fAETNALlAA nAtA AAAE[A8 ~ 2AAaAAF anu 70 I
often that ouE Pianfers find iiimpossible
10 raise pigs or chickens. 4
Gen. Grant has had has monogram
smblazoned on the White House CHINA,
and has recently appointed a Phys ician
~ tba 8~onsehold.b Merchants are. COM
10 advertise their wares AS " the
in Grants d~omjnions2 aud Foretopr
nan Ra,se se -ruaning he naval depart
nent and the Iaperiotist jintly,h as
Cutie would say. Hhat's in the
Straws, straws, St Says, |,
The new Spanish Constitution docs
rot seem 40 meet wit, n theqapproyal of the
liberal journals Of Madrid. The obiec-
inDs NAV be snrs,snad NJ as follows: The
Construction DIVIDES neither toT q Denl9
ratio pof q n~sonarehiAl form o. /. gG ioe y
.anfvaa' ~~<rcshl which ere unsaf-
! lalh liberals and conserFa-
8 far from being . bond q s n.sSs
> ne Constitution, i is asseras% ss,tai aIssen-
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