Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-18
MEMPHIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS, 1863.
The NEWS.

Baltimore manufactured 22,511, l84
cigars during the last year.
Mark Twain has purchased an in
terest in TIE Buffalo Express.
Vice President COlfaX and party
reached San Francisco on Friday evening.
Gen. Grants cottage at Long
Branch cost $4,000. Thrift, thrift, Ho-
ratio.
It is reported that a privateer left
New York a few nights since, destined for
the Cuban service.
There are fifteen thousand deposit
ors in the Freedmen's Saving INC Trust
Company of Washington.
The Soroses in Chicago have got
into a s~Guabble. The idea of women
quarreling; it is ridiculous.
Prot. Carl VOgt, the German sa-
want. will visit the United States this fall,
and lecture in the principal cities.
Senator Warner gives a most fiat
tering account eff the state of the crops
and the general prosperity of Alabama.
Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Richie is
the London correspondent of the San
Francisco Chronicle and various other pa
pers.
Indian depredatiOns in New Mexico
continue. On the 9th, the herders on
Rancho Tabac were surprised and several
killed.
There is a great stringency in the
San Francisco money market, and bank
ers are ordering large shipmants of coin
from the East.
The strike of the New York plate (
printers continues. Secretary Boutwell,
has promised TO look into the merits of
the case immediately.
The instruments of the observatory
~ YeSuvius indicate that a fresh internal
disturbance is Commencing in the interior
Of the mOGptain.
Two horses in Jones county, Iowa,
were cured Of Fattiesnake bites by the eN-
ternal application Of tnrPentine and salt
TO the affected places, asId by drenching
with a decoctioH Of sp2EeWeed and
whisky.
The Tampa Peninsula says; "ihare
wfl ~ more cotton raised in this section
this Vs. than has ever before been made.
Persons Wbo ave planted the Mexican
cotton say that it produces more, and
does better thHA the sea island.
A novelty ia literature is an
nounced, which might bo styled an auto
biography written by another person.
Bulwer has written a life of katmerstOn, |
an which ne has had the assistance Of a
diary kept by the late premier from tEe
gear is27.
A crest many members Of that e3-
trEOFdInaFy sect, the ScOptZi, who
late themselves for the Kingdom Of
Heavens sake" haze been brought 10 4
trial at Tambow and found guilty. Their
sentence consists IN the Less of all civil
rights, and Punishment for lie to Siberia.
Sitksr in Alaska, is notable as the
point where the traveller our the
world either gains or loses his day Of the
week. ! Russian reaching il on an east
ern Journey celebrates his seventh day
Sabbath there, while the American going
westward finds business suspended ON his
Saturday.
A citizen of Philadelphia who used
= Xeak solution of carbolie acid as a wash
10 neutra}ize the offensive oder arising
from a ANGER discovered that the letter
was entirely removed BY the application.
The solution consisted Of one-fourth of
an ounce Of acid diluted in > quart of
water.
Letters received by Cubans in
washington from Gen. Jordan, give a
aeW version OF the affair at HOlguin. 1t
appears from these that the forces of Val
masedz BSre entirely routed and broken
mp, and thai as a result of the battle Gen.
Jordan now us complete control Of the
HOlguin Distriet.
Zgruby HannW2, the beautiful
Circasian girl of Barnum's Museum, was
exhibiting at Montreal the other day,
when il became noised abroad that the
bsautifnl Circassian was a Dutch native
OF tie Bowery, in New York, and the
MeptEsal populace tore down her tent and .
scattered the effects to the winds. :
TheannNRl war-dance of the Indians {
on the GppeT Missouri is thus described: {
During tie dance missions are made in ,
the skins of the male Indians. Buffalo I
thongs or strings aTe rgB through these
missions, and some heavy objects, gene I
rally the heads Of buffaloes, are attached. =,
The Indian who pulls the weight the I
greatest distance and at the fastest speed,
gains the honor, and is made famous ac- ,
cordipg TO his degree Of fortitude. !
The people Of the United States.
says the New York World. are plundered {
of twenty millions Of dollars a year by A..
the tariff on coal, and twenty-three mil !
lions OF dollars a year by the tariff on I
iron. Forty-three millions of dollars a ,
year 20 straight from the pockets of hard
working people into the pockets Of only {
these two classes of monOpolists and the q
Congressman who conspire 10 pass the :
laws which authorize the plundeging. l
A Traveller" advises pertOns 90
"a CaliforBis overland to take with
them provisions 70 last to Sacramento I
and not to depend Cor meals on the hos q
telries along the railroad. -Four br six !
he says, could mess together and d
take a large hamper, containing ham, 4
tongues, canned oysters, crackers, bread, Z
preserves, etc, and especially a small bot :
- OF powdered magnesia. This could be ;
placed in the baggage car within easy 5
The atlanta NeU Era says the !
prospects of Georgia were never 4
nStter. sresdstufs and the necessaries of
ilie Tar exceed the homo demand. The q
COTTON prospects were never better. Near :
every farmer VIII have some To sell F.. -
having produced all Tie corn. oats. I
wheat and bacon they will mead o
VIII be able 10 invest the surnlne o
.ained from the proceeds of his cotton
mop. h
Sidney Smith in his work on moral =
philosophy, speaks in this wise of what
men lose for want of a little brass. as it js
"A grega deal Of talent il lost 10 b
he world for the want Of a little courage. +.
Every day sends to the grave a number Of 4
,bScure men who have only remained in L
.1Dsourity because their timidity has pre- o.
rented them from making a first effort, 2
md who, if they could only have been in o
iueed to begin, would in all probability Ii
gone great lengths in the career Of
aInf The fact is, that in order to do u
IHpeing In this world worth doing we n
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