Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-18
WASHINGTON.
The FrOliC---B0nes and Bonds
Miscellaneous.
The New Secretary of War---Ifhs
XVIII Amendment.

WASHINGTON, October l6.ZTht
commander Of the gunboat Frolic re-
ports to the Navy Department that
In obedience to orders, lie had arrived
at Wilmington, n. c., and anchored
alongside OF the Cuban priyateer HOr
net, and that, pursuant to further or.
ders, he had informed the commands
Of the privateer not to leave port until
he had judicial permission, to be fol
lowed BY the Presidents approval oI
the same. There is no doubt enter.
tanned here but that the result will be
her permanent detention. The Gov.
ernment has abundant evidence "a
prove that she made the United
States a base and violated the neu.
trality law in so doing.
BONES AND bonds.
a Washington special in the Rich
mond E'ceRBlg Aeics of Wednesday
last announced that Secretary Bout
well had purchased this month mil
lions of dollars worth of bones, instead
OF bonds, in consequence of which Mr..
Boutwell, this morning received let
ter from L. King, Secretary, inquiring
what was being paid for bones in
bulk, as he had Il large lot on hand.
THE MEMPHIS TOBACCO SEIZURE.
Information has been received at
the Internal Revenue Bureau Of the
seizure of the tobacco store and ware
house OF EdmOnds, Pcttigrew & Co.,
of Memphis, Tenn, for tiagrant viola
tiOn of the revenue laws. Over 1900
pounds of tobacco was found on the
premises not stamped by law.
ANOTHER TREASURY DECISION.
The impression seems to have gained
ground that the decision of COmmis-
siOner DeEnO abOlishing the use Of
stand casks makes 1t necessary 10
throw them aside and prohibit their
use for any other purpose. This is not
so, as the decision merely prohibits
the use of the casks for retailing
liquors from.
PHOTOGRAPHIC CURRENCY.
The case Of the firm in New York
who deceive the people by proposing
to furnish them with genuine imita=
ton lcg:Il tender notes, and send TO
the Ylrchaser a lot OF photographs of
the |. 5. currency, has been referred
to Solicitor Clnfield, and if there IS
any authority to suppress the swim
dlers, Secretary Boutwell, will prompt
ly enforce it.
THE NEW SECRETARY OF WAR.
The correspondent of the New York
IOrid says of the new Secretary OF
War:
When the appointment was first
given out from the White House, the
in this community was as
great as when the name of BOrie was
on the Senate and the
coupEry in March last. Who Is
Belknap? said one, and where in the
world did he come frOIn@ added an
other. Old army officers thought thac
they had heard some such name in the
Western army. Gen. Dent, the Pres
ident's body-guard, said he believed
that Belknap had been corps cOlnman-
der in the war; bat no one else could
the name in that cOpnec-
tiOn, and Dent, even in the portals of
the White House, gaze up tile cOngn-
drum. 1t IS BeiikHQp-n0tB Belk2dp,
answered 3 gentleman in a crowd Of
in iGirers, who was az Gnee
piled for further intelligence. The
name was repeated all the afternoon,
Bei6Hdp, Beik7Sap-whO the devil is
Belknap, and what has he done that
he should bemade Secretary of War;
TheS Democrats laughed aud jeered,
but the Radicals took it in grim sad
ness, for no one was able to give any
OF the new Secretary, whose
Dbscurity could hardly be penetrated
in a city where somebody knows
everybody who has been anybody"
The New York .@tol says. When the
Hon. SiIas \. Hudson, Gen. Grants
cousin, and Minister to Guatemala,
notified Gen. Belknap that all the In
-ernal Revenue appointments in Iowa
mad been put under his (Hudson's)
control, the plucky Collector rudely
old the cousin of the President to 20
% the devil; and it is to the credit of
Cen. Grant that he hos now nppainted
8elknap To TIE War Office, natWith
standing the insult TO his cousin.
THE XVIII AMENDMENT.
Considerable speculation and COM
nent having been INDUCED in with
-efence to the ratification OF the NNth
Amendment, by the
of the several States of
litC nAbtl. t4tT 1OAlOA 4ttNA7 lltlt -
been obtained from the official recOfeis
in the State Department. From mis-
account itappeafs that thus Ear tJteR-
ty States have ratified the amend
ment, and three refused, as follows:
March so, 1863; Connecti-
eat, March l3, 1869; Florida, March
l5, 1863; Indiana, May II, 1869; Hi
nOis, March ., 1869; Kansas, Februa-
~ y, 1863; Louisiana, March 5, 1869;
March !, 1869; Massaehu-
sets, March II, 1863; Maind, March
y, iSCg; Michigan, March s, 1863;
New York, April II, 1869; New
Hampshire, July Z, 1865; Nevada,
March / 1859; Nebraska, March ),
1869; Pennsylvania, March 2G, 1869;
South Carolina, March l6, 1869; West
Virginia, March 3, 1869; Wisconsin,
March 9, 1869; Virginia, October 9,
1869.
Rejected-D2laware, March IS, 1869;
Kentucky, March l3ilsG9; Ohio, May
!, 1863.
The official notification has not yet
been received from Virginia, although
that State has ratified the amendment.
Missouri and Kansas are not included
in the list, for the reason that the iOr-
mer omitted one of the sections of the
and the latter changed
the language Of