Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-28
LOUISVILLE.
A Suspected Rascal arrested and locked up.

| A Suspected Rascal arrested and locked up.
LOUISVILLE, August 2f.-GeO. f.
| Hoffman, alias Geo. Black, who, it Is
! believed has been committing some
/ vfllany in the Southwest, was arrested
here yesterday.
THE OHIO RIVER BRIDGE.
one of the channel spans of the
bridge over the Ohio river, three hum
dred and seventy feet long, was
completed yesterday. This is the
| longest span of any truss bridge
erected in this country. The whole
bridge viii be finished in the early
part Of November.
POLITICAL.
The Curriers' Washington special
SAYS the Governor elect (Senter) of
Tennessee on hearing that Stokes is
here to get the President TO remove
such office-holders as voted the Con-
seryatiYe ticket in the recent State
election, denied that he (Senter) had
come on to induce the President not
10 heed Stokes; but he adds that it
will be a great outrage if any office
holder is removed for any such rea-
islature will ratiiy the Fifteenth
Amendment; and in alluding to his
own political views and those OF,
Brownlow, uses the following Ian
guage: " BrOwnlow is to-day as strong
as ardent, and as un;iiehing RepuO-
lican as he ever was. In what has he
changed?- He is an enthusiastic Grant
and administration man; and that's
just what ] am myself. Why, Brown
low is the youngest man of his age
(if ] MAY be permitted a seeming
paradox in the United States. lie is
4 true, progressive Republican. Prob
ably you remember the fact that he
intimated, in his message to the Leg
iSlature in 1863, that the time would
come when the franchise YoHld have
TO be extended that is, when it would
be safe to trust it in the hands of those
who had been connected with the re-
belliOn-When, in fact, they had be-
come loyal at the late election. He
felt that the time had come, and he
advocated the extension Of the fran
chiss,"
The State Department has received
no official confirmation Ct the state
ment that the Chinese Government
had refused to ratify the treaty made
with this Government by Burlin-
games embassy year since, but
there is unofficial information which
leads to the belief that the treaty has
been rejected, and that the French and
English in the Chinese Empire have
united their combined effOrstS to Sc
cure such rejection. Ross Brownies
dispatches intimated that such efforts
were on foot, and it is not unlikely
that they have prevailed. He is now
on his way home, but as Howard, his
confirmed successor, who is now here,
has virtually declined the mission, il
is understood that the President viii
request Browne to stay and labor for
the ratification of the Burlingame
treaty.
AGRICULTURAL.
Accounts from the growing crops,
received at the Agricultural Depart
ment, are Of a very favorable oharac-
ter, while all the cotton States, except
Georgia and Florida, reported the con-
ditiOn of the cotton crop in July as
below the average Of the
crop of 1865 at the corresponding date.
Nearly ali now report an improve
ment upon the late estimates, and sew
eral of the important cotton regions
report the condition as better than in
August of last year, the weather hav-
ing been generally prOpitious and the
injury by the worm comparatively in
considerable. The crop is estimated
al nearly three million bales.