Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-12
THE NEWS,

--Our Methodist missionaries have de-
oided to open station in Pekig.
"A number OF Swiss immigrants have
arrived at Knoxville, Tenn, and will
settle in that vicinity.
The Common Council Of New Or
leans have appointed q committee OF
conference to report upon the matter of
farming out the city WhsTves aud the
propriety of the clty's Issuing S., 600 900
worth OF bonds, to be ratified by the
Legislature. The committee are to re.
port at the next regular meeting on Tues
day next.
Don Piatt says: " Parton is think
queer, gentlemEnly looking man who
carries fOrty-eight on his eountensnee,
Above the medium hight, he ia slender,
and ends In head, round and smallish.
He has sn OF eye, hooked nose, prom
inent chin, coarse, dark hair that en-
crosches on his forehead, and whiskers
to match-rather thin and uncertain,
and struck me as resembling Don Quix-
ote in youth, and in delicate health"
Americans arriving in the South of
France have frequently suffered annoy-
ance from not being provided with pass.
ports. The reiterated efforts Of Gen. Dix
have at last obtained that the regulation
requiring such papers shall be hereafter
entirely without effect. A circular from
NJ. Pinard when Minister OF the Interior.
and bearing the date OF Deeem Der s. 1865,
declares that all citizens of the Ameri.
can Union shall be hereafter permitted
to enter, travel and sojourn In France on
the simple declaration Of their national
ity."
The budget Of the Ruseiaa Empire
for 1869 amounts to 4S2 900 600 roubles
In the revenue account figure q surplus
of 4 600 000 from the budget OF 1867, and
surplus of 10, 900 600 from the budget of
1858, these amounts serving to cover the
increase OF 13 600, 600 in the expenditure.
Thirty-one million ToUbles sre appropri,
ated from special SOURCES for the con-
struction of railway lines Rnd,for harbor
works st Riga and Odessa. The Minis
ter Of Finance sscribas the increase in
the revenue to q more than usually sat-
isfsetory harvest, and to the stimulus
given to commerce by the extension of
the railway systen1.
in the +" Msdone aux Roses" a play
now running in the Paris Gate, there
are three tablesux which all the wonders
OF the stage mechanism have never at
tanned up to the present. One is an
AuO1g A6uusCAp6 1f6OpOlu
Roberts famous painting called the
f" Harvest" The peasantry dancing un-
der the Southern sun to the quick Tar
entella movement, the lowing of the
cattle and graceful grouping OF the fig
ures are perfectly artistic. The second
grand tsblesu is the feast given by Caesar
In his duoal palace all the voluptueus-
ness Of the east and dspFsvity Of Bsby-
Ion are rendered most vividly wine
overfows, thousand lights glitter, while
ballet nymphs, like sirens, enchant tie
intoxicated guests. But the banquet is
the coDfisgTation Of the palace. The
stage is covered with sheet iron, and no
less than 1900 pieces Of burning embeis,
supposed to be the beams, roofs and walls,
are tossed up by artificial flames. The
cracking Of the wood, the laundering
crash Of domes falling in, the writniug
Of the spirals and utter dismsy Of the
surprised soldiery, are almost painfully
depicted. 1t takes six hours every day
to put up the ducal palace behind the
scenes, for ii must be artisticslly coz
structed, snd net one piece placed on
another without precision,