Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-09

America, and two millions each from
China and Japan. The original cost is
from four and a half to seven cents q
pound.
Twenty-Five million bushels of salt were
produced in the United States last year.
The amount imported during the same
period was about eight and a half millions
of bushels. The price of salt was about
sixteen cents per bushel more in 1869 than
in 1861, and this difference was due to the
tariff. Sixteen cents a bushel on 80, $780,
900 bushels, our total consumption, gives
Us something over $4,000, Geo, and this is
the amount of money taken from the con-
sumers by the tariff. Where does the
money go?
A friend in Hong Kong writes to the
Savannah Republiean, under date of the
18th of January, that two Southern gen.
tlemen, Messrs. Gift and Williams, were
then there, making arrangements to send
one thousand Chinese to Savannah and
| New Orleans. The correspondent adds
that these gentlemen found no difficulty
in engaging the Chinese. He does not,
however, specify the terms of their con-
tracts. Colonel Gowau, an English gen
tleman, who was in Memphis yesterday,
is prepared to make contracts for any
number Of Chinese up to one hundred
thousand.
A New York correspondent writes: ga
day or two ago the business agent of the
Grand Opera House got out a very neat
dodge in the way of advertising. He pro-
cured the services of sixteen good looking
young fellows, between fifteen and TWEEN
ty years of age, and sttired them sump-
tuously in crimson and gold. He trans
mogrihed them so completely that they
were a pleasure TO look at-very different
from those Haunting scalawags in long
shirts and many colored ribbons who
parade Broadway with brazen turbans on
their heads, announcing various wares.
They were all young; they were all good
looking, sound in mind and limb, shapely
Of person, and very pic~turesquely attired.
Each carried a banner, and IN each ban
ner was inscribed The Twelve Tempta-
TONS In this style they paraded Broad
way blAub Ou Onc slut anu bAAul vi LAb
other. They were arrested and taken be-
fore Judge Bowling, who Immediately
discharged them, and the next day the
parade was repeated"
Information has been received from
Wise county, Texas, giving an account Of
a fight, in the early part Of February, be-
tween a party Of the citizens of that coun-
ty and a band of Indians who were on a
stock thieving expedition, in which four
of the citizens were killed, and those re-
naming, eleven in number, every M
wounded. 1t is not known that the saw
ages met with any loss whatever. They
succeeded in making their escape without
being attacked by any other whites. The
Indians were the Apaches, who have be-
come daily more troublesome than ever to
the white settlers in the less civilized por-
tons of Texas. As soon as the spring
has sufficiently advanced, and the Texan
drovers begin their move with stock to-
ward California, the 9Th United States
Cavalry, now on duty at Fort Richards,
Texas, will be detailed as an escort to the
droves, and will make short work of ex-
termination Of every band of Indian dep
the Texan prairies.
A Washington special, Of the 5th, says
that Secretary Fish will transmit to the
Senate, next week, some official CORES
pondence on file in the State Department,
showing that Minister Washburne had
warned capitalists in France against what
he alleges were misrepresentation made
by citizens ofthis country regarding a cor
poration styling itself the Memphis and
FL Paso Railroad Company. He states
that the road has no charter, no subsidies
from Congress, that its bonds are not guar
anteed by the Government, and, although
q bill to grant it the right Of way through
the public lands had passed n branch Of
Congress, it had failed to become a law.
Mr.. Wsshburne justifes his course on the
ground that there had been considerable
money invested in the corporation on the
belief that it bore similar relation to the
General Government that the Pacific rail-
roads did, while the fact was that it only
existed by State authority.
A dispatch from Washington OF the It'll
inst. gives the following: In the Supreme
Court in the case Of the United States VS..
Henry Grossmeyer, appeal from the
Court of Claims, the evidence shows that
GrossmeYer, prior to the rebellion, was a
citizen Of New York, and be had claims
for loans and other Indebtedness against
one Einstien, a resident Of Georgia,
which, after the war commenced through
8 friend who passed back and forth, di-
rected 20 invest in cotton for his use
and benefit by Einstien, and it was so
done. Subsequently the cotton was cap
tured by the army at Savannah, which
was sold by the Government, and the pro-
eeeds paid into the Treasury. The Court
OF Claims, finding Grossmeyer never had
been within the rebel lines, and was Ioval
throughout the war, gave him judgment
for the amour Of the proceeds. which
was $4,000. This Court now reversas tho
judgment OF the Court of Claims-Justice
Davis delivering the opinion BoldinU
that all intercourse between sections
closed, became Illegal upon the outbreak
VI lub war WilAoUt tnb SuaClLuBlL OF any
law on the subject, but that Congress did
not intend there should be any misappre-
hension among the people concerning it,
as it had expressly declared the fact it
would be unlawful. Therefore, for Gross
meyer in person to have done acts
claimed to have been done by his agent,
and if the act Of his principal would have
been unlawful, that Of his agent must be
unlawful also. It follows there was no
authority for the purchase Of cotton for
the claimants by Einstien, and there be-
ing no authority for its purchase, of course
no title passed to him, and he was not
owner Of the property and has no right
full claim 10 the proceeds. The opinion
takes the ground that there could be no
valid agency crested after the commence
ment of the war to do any act for or be-
tween citizens adhering to different sec
tions, and that the whole transaction was.
consequently, void,