Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-10

Secretary Boutwell, has reported against
the utility of a mint at New Orleans,
holding that the mint at Philadelphia is
sufficient for the Atlantic States, and the
one at San Francisco, for the Pacific
states. In view of this fact, Senator Kel-
logg has introduced a resolution, look
ing to the reYersion of the mint property
at New Orleans to that city, as it had been
coded to the Government only for mint
purposes.
It is remarked that the development of
insurance in the United States has been
very great during the past ten years. At
the present time it is computed that the
policies against fire and marine losses
amount to s3,O92, 900, 600. The life insu-
rance business in the same time, it is as
serted, has increased from seventeen
companies, issuing $1,000 policies, to over
sixty companies, issuing between 100000
and 100000 policies, for sums amounting
to 81, 200, 900, 200.
A telegram from Mobile, dated SatUr-
day, states that Judge Wood, Of the Uni
ted States Circuit Court, had refused an
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petitioners, to put the Bank Of Louisiana
into bankruptcy, and dismissed the rule
to modify the injunction granted by Judge
Durell, against the proceedings of the
Sixth District Court, in liquidation of the
affairs of the bank. This decision gives
great satisfaction to the old directors Ofthe
bank, and to others interested in having
the affairs administered in the Bankrupt
Court.
Mrs. Sarah Blacketter, who murdered
her husband at Litchfeld, Conn, has
been admitted to bail in the sum Of
SI5, 200. She is only about seventeen
years of age, and was moved to commit
the deed by brutal treatment. He desert
ed her several times, and on the night of
the murder he professed penitence and
said he would be a kind husband, and
induced her TO share his bed. In the
morning he told her that he had two
other women and that he had got enough
of her. Great sympathy is felt for the
woman.
Additional facts in relation to the case
of Gonaday and his cadetship rave be
come known. The person whose son
was appointed t~estifes that GOlladay was
a stranger to him; that he never met him
but once, and hen it was in Wizards
Hotel; that he talked with him for ten
minutes, when Golladay promised to
send in the appointment in three days,
which he did. The witness also testified
that he was a Republican, and had con-
tributed literally to the Republican cam
paign fund, but he swore positively that
he paid no money for his appointment.
The Internal Revenue Bureau is devot-
ing, just now, unusual care and consid-
Grafton to the examination of all the ac-
counts of the Collectors of Revenue, and
much l~oOseness has been discovered. 1t
is also noticed that the qualifications of
new appointees of the Revenue Bureau,
and especially Collectors and Assessors,
are being Thoroughly scanned and looked
into. All e-xtravagances in revenue Off
GERS throughout the country are to be
stopped, and Mr.. Delano declares his pur-
pose of making his second year of the sd-
ministration, so far as he is concerned,
even more successful than the first.
Secretary Boutwell, expresses himself as
emphaticslly opposed to the remova of
the revenue tax on incomes, and says that
the tax being paid by 100000 persons, it
is the most popular as well as the most
equitable source of revenue with the peo-
| pie. He viii not oppose a reduction of
the tax TO three per cent, leaving the ex-
emptions as they stand in the law sOon to
expire, but prefers the present rate of five
per cent. on all amounts e $1,000. He
favOrs the abolition and reduction of the
special tax on manufacturers, or certain
classes of them, aud on transportation,
and he says a reduction of sixteen mil
lions can be effected in this way very
properly.
Governor Austin, OF Minnesota, has re-
fused to approve the Female Suffrage bill,
for the reason that the clause submitting
his amendment to the vote Of females a.
well as males is unconstitutional, as fe-
males are not legal voters, and therefore
incompetent to vote on this or any other
subject until their disabilities are re-
moved by a vote of the male voters. The
Governor also objects to the proposition
as being premature, and says as yet there
is little or no evidence OF any public SEN
timent amODg the people at large in the
State in favor of the proposed change,
and it is attempted by this act to force a
question upon the people and inaugurats
a campaign upon an Issue which they
have not made and in which they have
manifested no interest.
The difficulty between Mr.. Hooes, of
Alexandria, La, and Captain Luckett,
grew out Of IN old family feud in refer
ence to some land. The parties were
brothers-in-law. Mr.. HoOes had informed
a friend of Captain Luckett on a former
occasion that he intended to shoot him.
This friend conveyed the intelligence to
Luckett's brother, who came down on the
boat with Hooes. When the boat arrived
at Alexandra. Luckejt, seeing his brother
come on board, informed him that Hooes
was on the boat and was armed. This be-
ing made known to Captain Luckett, he
went in TO see Hooes in the cabin, and
told him "now draw YOU weapons"
Hooes did so, and both parties commenced
firing. HOOes received four shots, none,
however, considered mortal. Captain
Luckett escaped unhurt.
The Senate in executive session yester-
day took mp the nomination Of EnOs Hop
kins for Postmaster at Nashville, which
gave rise to a long and animated discus
sion. This nomination was favored by
Senator Brownlow, but strongly opposed
by Senator Fowler, who requested its re-
lection in acr dance with the long estab-
lished usage of the Senate, which conced-
ed to every Senator the right to demand
that no one should be confirmed as post
master of his own city or immediate
neighbOrhoOd who is personally objec-
tionable to him. A contest over the nom
ination had been for some time in pro-
gress before the Committee on P~ostoffces,
sndtt was reported without recommended
ton, leaving 70 the senate the decision of
the general question involved. The con-
clusion reached by the Senate agrees with
its action last year in a similar case, that
OF the nomination OF postmaster for
Leavenworth, which was rejected at the
request Of Senator Ross.
THE oldest town on the Western
Hemisphere is the city Of San Do
mingo, on a part Of the island to be
bought by Grant. 1t was founded in
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