Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-16

and his extraordinary exertiOns in other
respects are accepted as proof Of greater
strength on the part of the rebels than he
is willing probably to admit.
The CovingtOn (Ga.) Enterprise re-
rets to learn that the bollworm has
appeared in force on several cotton plan
tations in Newton county. 1t is appre-
hended from their early appearance that
they viii he very destructive 20 the crop
this year.
Bonito, says the Lexington (Ky.)
Gazette, returned home to Stockwood
Wednesday evening from Chicago, where
she won with ease the two mile race,
purse $500; and Monday last the three
mile race was won by her handily, purse
$1,000. Mr.. Swigert refused several offers
for her.
DIR. Maxwell, who was recently
killed at Calvert, Texas, was highly es-
teemed as a gentleman and physician by
all good citizens who CHANGED TO know
him. He was in the prime Of life, from
the parish of st. Mary, La, and married
a daughter of Col. B~rashear, whose name
is quite familiar in the State of Louisiana.
Louisiana strangers continue to
visit st. Mary, anxious TO purchase plan
tatiOns, but they find but few in the mar
ket. Nearly everybody who mas a planta-
LAon III lllS DdIlSn Is dDle 10 uOlu IL. DuN
it would be a great benefit to the country
if some of the landed prOprietOrs would
cut up their hundred or two hundred acre
lots, and sell alternate lots to enterprising
strangers.
There is much complaint on planta-
tons in the South that the labOrers leave,
in violation of their contract, whenever 1t
suits their convenience. This is a sad
evil to the planters at this season of the
year. This, and many other troubles
connected with the labor question force
the Chinese labor question before the
heavy planters who have means to OBJ
tain this kind of labOr.
There was a meeting of silk man
u~facturers in New York city recently,
at which it was decided to hold an
exhibition of American silk manufac-
lures, in connection with the fair of
the American Institute. An assOcia-
ton was formed to conduct the eXhi-
bitiOn. All persons engaged in any
department of silk manufacture in the
United States are invited to join the
association and exhibit their products.
The world moves. A dispatch of
the 18th from Madrid the fact
that the remains OF a Spanish lady, who
died in the Protestant faith, were in
tered on the 18th in the general ceme-
terry. This is the first case of the burial of
a Protestant in the cemetery, which has
occurred under the recent order of the
Alcade permitting any such funerals.
Nearly two hundred Spanish Protestants
were present. There was no disturbance.
Among the relics deposited i'm the
cornerstone of the Masonic and Odd-Fel-
lows Hail, on the oath ult., at Sherman
town, White Pine, was a piece of beautiful
marble, from the site and ruins of King
SOlOmOn's Temple ut Jerusalem, and
vOuched for by Prof. Israel 5. Diehl, who,
in his Oriental travels, visited the ruins
of the foundations, arches and quarries of
SolOmOn's Temple, still extant upon
Mount MOriah.
The reports from Louisiana continue
to indicate most promising crops Of cot
ton and corn. The latter is now consid-
cred made, and the product will be more
than was at first anticipated.
OF the upland parishes, East Baton Rouge
will take the blue ribbon in the extent
and variety of its productions this year.
The corn crop of West Baton Rouge will,
il is claimed, be the finest made in that
parish since 1860. Crosse Tete and Marin
gouin are rejoicing over the finest of crop
prospects, and il is claimed thai cotton on
the bayou is far ahead of that elsewhere.
Not a trace or even a rumOr of the cater
pillar 50 far.
A contract has been made in San
Francisco, the Chronicle of thai city says,
for the supply of twenty thousand Chi
nese labOrers, TO be employed as planta-
ton hands in the State of Tennessee.
The very faithful and intelligent manner
the Chinese laborers performed their work
in constructing the Central Pacific Rail-
road has attracted attention to this unsur-
passed class of rough labOrers. 1t is Un-
derstOOd that the passage of these labOrers
viii be paid by their employers, and they
VIII be paid $40 per month. Another
force Of twenty-five thousand is being
contracted for to proceed to the state of
Mississippi.
The Jefferson (Texas) Tnplecaae
says immigrants are " pouring" into the
wheat region of Texas. Agentleman Just
arrived from the interior of Louisiana.
informs the Jimpiecute hat the cotton
crops between that and his home are far
beyond average. The corn, however, is
backward, and looking very sorry, cOnsid-
ering the season. The trial of the Jetfer-
son prisoners before the military commits
sion still prOgresses-witnesses for the de-
Tense are being eXamined-but nothing
new has been developed. Several prison
ers have proven alibis.
The Lynchburg (Na.) NeiCs says
that Capt. Matthew Mercer, late c.. 5. A.,
a section master on the Virginia and
Tennessee railroad, near Mount Airy, was
shot and mOrtally wounded about sunset
Thursday evening by a party of negroes.
The full account of this brutal outrage
has not been received, but the particulars,
as far as they are known, appear to be
that Capt. Mercer was returning TO his
home after the labOrs Of the day were
ended. and, while crossing a bridge across
"a nall nHraanRa rHrag arHnal-aI h~ Fha.a Il
negroes, who were lying in wait for him,
and knocked from the bridge into the
stream below. While living on his bach
in the water, the tiends fired from the
bridge, the balls from their guns entering
his breast and infiicting, as is supposed,
mortal wounds. The murderers then
made their escape.