Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-10
DECLINED.

Judge Whitley, Of Michigan, who
was appointed and confirmed Circuit
Judge for Ohio, kentucky, Tennessee
and Michigan district, has telegraphed
positive declination.
TO BE GERRYMANDERED.
A bill will be introduced in the
House on Monday abolishing the
Fourth or Maryland and Virginia
Circuit, and attaching it to the Penn
sylvania Circuit. The object of this
seems TO be to get rid of the pending
nomination of Judge Pearce for the
Maryland Circuit.
CUBA.
As soon as Congress reassembles a
Radical Senator will introduce a reso-
luton demanding the appointment of
q committee to sift to the very bottom
the disgraceful transaction of the Gov
ernment in respect to Cuban affairs.
The investigation will include an in
curry into the employment of counsel
in the case Of Spanish gunboats.
CIGARS.
The Commissioner decides that
manufacturers Of cigars in filing their
bonds with The Assessor, in accord
ance with the provisions Of law, must
include all persons employed in the
manufacture of cigars, which will in
clude not only persons technically
known as cigar makers, but also per-
sons employed as ''strippers" ana I
"bunchers.O
VIRGINIA.
President Grant, in conversation /
with a Senator a second time, said .
that he hoped Virginia would be ad-
anilted without condition and quickly; /
she bad formally complied with all
the requirements hitherto imposed by |
Congress, and he thought the country
would not sustain measures based
upon the assumption that the State
had not acted in good faith.
CURRENCY EAST AND WEST.
Western business men write 70
members Of the Senate Finance Com
7ittee urging the passage of a bill to
Il = an thirty-fv6 millions Of three
SIe - certificates, and to issue in
their place the same amount Of ma
tiSnoI notos This would compel the
hanks to retire leg n tenders for their
$500 ''-'----- - nj fleet of this, it is
reserved fund. The 4 ..l,-.1--.-,.,..-.
said, would be to contract 'le ouiI eiicy
East and relieve the West. :
BREAKERS AHEAD OF GRANf..
The President must trim his sal.' $
closely to windward to avoid the
breakers ahead. He cannot avoid an
issue in respect TO the rejection 9f :
Hoar, the confirmation of Sickles, and .
the continuance in Office of Ashley. 5
His withdrawal of the nomination OF 7
Potts viii not save him, nor will the :
appointment Of Holt as Wayne's sue
cessor. See TO what we are brought! f
Sickles, Holt and Ashley! The fate K
of the country depending on such :
men! I
MANUFACTURED TOBACCO. a
In answer to a petition presented Il
by leading dealers in, and manufac- .
turers of, tobacco in New York city, =
asking that no Cuartailraent be made L
in the present facilities for bonding f
manufactured tobacco, the Commis- '
sioner Of Internal Revenue gives as Y
suranee that he does not intend, as at ?
present advised, to make any change {
IN the present export bonded ware d d
houses, or curtail any facilities which t
they may now enjoy, so long as the t
Interests of the Government remain /
secure and no detriment is received
20 the revenue from the present sys- y
TEN. C
LEAF TOBACCO. 4
Application having been made to I
Commissioner DelanO by dealers in ! !
leaf tobacco, to be allowed to purchase a
the scraps, waste and sweepings of u
cigar manufacturers in bulk, and with Z
out payment Of any tax thereon, in i i
the same manner that manufacturers {
of cigars are allowed TO sell in bulk !;
their clippings and waste to tobacco i
manufacturers, TO be used as material, i
he has decided that this permission +
cannot be granted, and this class Of to- il
bacco cannot be allowed TO be put on a
the market as an article Of traffic with \
out full compliance with the require =
ments ofthe law; that is without pay a
meat Of the tax of sixteen cents per 4
pound and the proper packing, as re- I
CURED in ali cases Of manufactured =
tobacco. f
THE SUPREME BENCH. q
The nomination of Judge Strong, Of .
Pennsylvania, to the vacancy on the =
Supreme Bench, is decided on. Judge Il
was elected an 1850 as a Demo 9
erat to tie Supreme Bench of Penn II
sylvania, but afterwards became a Re q
publican, and aGOut year since re- in
signed. il
1t is reported that Mr.. Frank u
lin Dick, native of st. Louis, Mo, % .,
will be nominated by the President h
for Associate Justice of the Supreme II
Court of the United States, in place Of ol
Judge Hoar, Immediately after the -
of the latter by the Senate.
Mr., Dick is a warm personal friend of
he President, whom he has known
many years, and with whom he is on
terms of great intimacy. II
Ross AND IMPEACHMENT. 10
Senator Ross has addressed letter de
10 Cornelius Wendell, asking him 81
be knew of his being in y
by improper considerations o.
In voting against impeachment; 90
any money had been offered a
him, or TO any one else, in expectation SSSS
that his vote would be influenced, and w
if so to whom, demanding that Wen oc
lell shall tell all he knows about the Oil
,,a,..er. Wendell replies that no -
money vas offered Ross nor paid to nc
,nvbody in his behalf, adding: "To tn
your fourth and last inquiry I state pl