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TRADE.

The business Of our city has not been
brisk during the past week-the con-
dition Of the gold market leading buy
ers to expect a softening of prices gen
orally. AS a consequence they have
taken hold sparingly, and it is proba-
BILE that no degree of activity will en-
sue until the metal has found its level.
The provision trade retains more of
its animation so far as the jObbing de
maud is concerned than any other,
but even this branch of business feels
the effect of the decline in gold, and
orders come in more sparingly.
Stocks are not large, though they are
ample for the season, and we must
congratulate our Memphis merchants
on the sagacity they have shown in
making judiciOus purchases, for should
the " root Of all evil" go down to par,
no city in the Union would suffer less
than ours. We can at all times meet
the market, and, with light stocks on
hand, will be able to replenish at the
very lowest figures, thereby giving
those who buy here an advantage
they could not obtain by going else
where.
IAtfMl ~ AAl nAlNAF III AfAAA44A
light. India, 24H925c; heavy Kentucky,
25M26c.
~BEANs-Good Mixed, g 75@S3.
BUrrER-Choice Western, 35@57c; COM
mon, 20 Ito Csc. There is but little of the
former in market.
BRoOMs AND BROoMCoRN - BrOoms
at S3G6 per dOz. Broomcorn, $50
@225 per ton, with a good demand and
little coming in.
BUILDERs' MISUNDERSTANDING Ce-
ment S3td8 IS: Rosendale q 5OG4 70. Pias-
ter 81 5O@5. Hair, in 40 ID bales, g. 1903.
Fire brick S697. Building Brick s. per
NJ. Ohio River Lime 81 50@1 rs per Dbl.
Alabama 81 75@S2 90. Cape 81.
CoRNMEAL-The demand is il a light
iobhing way, selling from levee at a 40 by
the drayload, or 81 50 delivered. In single
bbls from store, 81 6594 70.
CoFFEE-Prices are weak, and stock
ample. Rio, ls@2Sc, as to quality; Java,
3OG32c.
CoTroN YARNs-No. 400, &c; 500, zoe;
800, 1Sc; 700, Ice.
CHEEsE-Fsctory 1S@lec. w r. IT@lse.
E. d. lS%c. Market steady.
CoTToN SEED AND MoTEs-Cotton
Seed on levee SI2 90, and So so delivered
at mills, the buyer furnishing the sacks;
Notes l to &c per pound.
CANNED GooDs-C0ndensed milk, SAG
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Active preparations are being made
for the spring campaign in Dry Goods,
and already the hammer is heard ia
every house, opening out bright and
beautiful fabrics OF every hue and
texture. Prices are tending lower,
and in prints, especially, are materi-
ally under last weeks quotations. The
jobbing trade is reported very good tor
this early stage of the season, and
many country merchants have been
induced to buy here in preference to
going east. Cur columns are filed
with new advertisements, to which
we call the attention Of our readers,
and we say to them that they can nov
buy at prices as low as before the war,
in very many leading staples. The
course pursued by A. 7. Stewart Co.,
Of New York, is being censured by the
New York press in many instances.
The Mercantile Journal says: cit is
seldom that we are called upon to re-
port more ~disgraceful operations
carried on under the pretense Of
doing a legitimate business than the
course pursued by Messrs. \. T.
Stewart & Co, in opening small
lots OF prints and other goods, and
offering them Ito those whose vigor Of
muscle Would enable them to grab
and retain a portion Of them) at less
than cost, with the view of making
false quotations in order to disturb the
market and break prices. Business at
best has been Improbable during the
past two or three years, and al at
tempt to undUly depress Values aud
iuiuFn trade tn tho GREAT nnfrimauf of
the average range OF dry goods houses,
is a wrong which all business men
ought to resent. By combined action
on the part Of dry goods jobbers, man
ufacturers and others concerned, the
would-be king can be easily de-
thrOned. Such action should be taken
at once in the premises as shall teach
Messrs. A. T. Stewart & Go. that they
cannot ride rOugh-shod over the trade
with ~impunity."
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Information No. 403.


United States Of Amertca-District Court OF
United States, District OF West Tennessee
The United States VS.. Two Empty Bar
rels. etc.
"HEREAS, J.. W. Puryiance, attorney OF
w the United states for said District. has
nled an Information against the following
property. tO-Fit:
Two empty 6arreis, one Horse, one Delivery
Wagon and Harness.
Alleging among other things that the SINE
has been seized by the Collector Of the q. s.
Internal Revenue for the Sth Collection Dis
tTict of Tennessee for the causes in said In
formation mentioned, and praying the usual
process and mOnitiOn OF the Court in that
behalf; now, therefore, in pursuance OF the
process of said Court TO me directed, I do
hereby give public warning and notice TO all
persons having or pretending TO have any
interest in said property so seized, that they
be, and appear before said Court, at the city
OF Memphis, On the fourth Monday in May,
1870, at lOO'clOcK, in the forenoon OF that day.
and intervene for their interest therein,
otherwise said property VIII be condemned
according to the prayer Of said Information.
This 2d day OF March, 1870.
mh3 j.. Il. EATON. II. s. Marshal
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CHAECERY SALE

PURSUANT to a decree OF the Chsncery
court at Savannah, Tennessee, IN the case
OF Garvin, Bell q Co. and Tiers against
James W. irwin and others, 4 Will sell, 10 the
highest bidder, on the premises,
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Ihe ath day Of March. lszO.

In front OF the Waldran Block, and upon the
premises, between the hour ofl0O'clock am.
and 2o'clOck pm, sell at public auction, TO
the highest bidder for cash, the following des-
cribed tracts, parcels or lots Of land, with the
improvements thereon, lying, being and sit
mated Ia the city Of Memphis, county OfShel-
by, and State Of Tennessee, and POUNDED as
follows, to-wit: Beginning on the east side OF
Main street, one hundred and fifty Q50} feet,
north Of Linden street, running thence east
wardly, parallel with Linden street one hun
dred and seventy-dye Q75) feet 70 the west
side of Mulberry street. thence north
with Mulberry street seVenty-eight and one
half l7sL0 feet to a stake, hence WestWardly,
parallel With Linden street. one hundIed and
s~eventy-hve 40 feet, 20 the east side Of Main
street, Themes southwardly with the east side
or Main street seveuty-elght and one-baIf
C7s19 feet TO the beginning; the same being
the lot-upon which the Waldran Block Is sit
uated.
Also, all the right, title, interest and estate
which the said Waldran has cOnveyed to me
in trust, inthe fOllowiugcescribed lot ofland,
situated In the city, Ounty and state afOre-
said, and bounded a. follows: Beginning at
the northwest corner OF the Memphis and
charleston railroad depot grounds and front
ing on Adams street one hundred and ninety
eight tlSo) ISet, 10 the corner OF Charles john
sion lot, thence south four az degrees east,
two undre and sixteen fset to a take,
thence south seventy degrees and fifteen
minutes west, two hundred and fOrtv-seyen
(2fD feet to a stake in the center Of the rail-
road track, thence along said track three
hundred and one SOD feet to the beginning,
DeluE Lntsaulb lOL upon Wulcu Is situated tne
Charleston cotton press, owned by the said
". b. Maldrsn and George Gill, undsr the
firm name Of Waldran & Gill, which said lot
is held by TEEN under a lease from the Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad Company, by
which the term began on the first day OF Oc-
tober. 1851, and is TO end on the 3Jth day Of
september, 1872, at an annual rent of one
Thousand dollars, payable quarterly. with the
privilege to the lessees Of removing any i'm
pIovements put by them on said premises.
The title to the foregoing described property
is believed TO be perfect, but | convey only as
trustee. feel W. MESSICK, Trustee.
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Thursday, March 10, 1870,

between the hours OF 10 and 70 O'Clock. am.
In front OF the door Of ROyster, Trezexaut &
Co, corner Of Main and Jefferson streets. in
the city of Memphis, proceed to sell. 10 the
highest bidder, for eash. st puUiic auction.
the property described IA said deed OF trust.
eO-wit: A certain tract OF land lying and be-
Ing IN the county OF shelby and State often
nessee, about one mile east OF the city Of
Memphis, as follows: Beginning at
tho northeast corner Of lot No. Is. in sub
division c, IN the partition ofthe estate Of A.
Il. Carr, at a stake IN Pigeon ROOst Road,
north l6 degrees, east 81 links from a poplar
marked 1, and thence south 20 chains or links
10 a stake, 8 degrees west, BlE links nom a
poplar marked H., thence north 500 degrees.
vest Chains 81 links TO p. Herstand's line;
thence north ~ chains g links TO Pigeon
Roost Road; thence south 81 degrees. east
with said road chains and 49, inks to the
beginning; containing about fourteen acres.
with the improvements thereon, being the
saIae property sold b. Samuel Mansfield and
wife 10 Fl, A. Montgomery, and by ii. A.
Montgomery to John II. Waggoner. Re-
demptlon waived. Title believed TO be good.
but / convey only as Trustee.
JNO. JOHNSON. Trusfaa
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Non-Resident Notice.

No. 42S5-In the Chancery Court of Memphis,
Tennessee.-J. Cumming Johnson ct al vs.
David c. Cross ct al.
TT appearing from affidavit in this cause
that the defendant, David Z. Cross IS a
nonresident Of the State OF Tennessee:
II is therefore ordered, That he make his
appearance herein at the Courthouse, IN the
city of Memphis, Tenn, on the first Non
day in April, 1870, and plead. answer or de-
muir 10 complainant bill, or the same viii be
taken for confessed as to him, and set Tor
hearing exparte; and that copy OF this or
der be published once q week, Tor TOUR sue
cessive weeks, IN the Memphis appeal.
A cOpy-attest:
AU&USTON ASTON. Clerk and Master.
nv BESJ. CoLMAN Deputy q. and N.
Jokn Johnston, sci fer complainant HRs
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Friday, 25th March, 1870,

In front Of the Circuit Courtroom, in the city
OF Memphis, between the hours of 10 and Y
O'Clock am, proceed to sell, 10 the highest
bidder, for cash, at public auction, the prop
erty described in said Deed OF Trust, town:
$40 acres OF land. situate in Shelby county
Tenn, In the 18th civil District of said
county, about miles east OF the city of Mem
phis, and one mile north of Whites Station,
on the Memphis and Charleston railroad.
bstRg the tract OF land upon which X. NJ.
Mason Is now living and farming. and COM
posed Of several small tracts, as follows, to-
wit; One parcel containing I3I acres, known
as tine Sanderlin tract, purchased by the said
Mason rom Dempsey Sanderlin about 1854;
one parcel known as the Sykes tract, con-
tanning about L6 acres, purchased by said
Mason OF James Sykes in 1856; one parcel
known as the Mendenhall tract, containing
III acres, purchased by said Mason of John
ID. GI1ham's estate ia 49,; one small parcel
containing -. more or less. purchased Of
Meredith Yates in lS6G-all OF which pur-
chsses are OF record in the Registers Office,
10 which reference is made for a more full
description; the balance OF The $40 acres, adj
joining tins above, being composed Of several
small parcels, purchased of YarlOug parties,
whose deeds ere OF record and reference
made Tor n tulier description. Also, at same
time and place, Will be sold 81 Wagons m
sixteen Mules.
Iwiu convey only such title to the above
described property as is vested in me as
Trustee.
feb23 JOHN D. QUIGLEY. Trustee.
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Sujt,

state Of Tennessee, Shelby county. Before
Hume +. Hill, Justice OF the Peace in and
Tor said county. Jones, Brown & Co. vs.. I.
j. Turner.
4 FFIDANlT having been made and bond
~ given, and attachment having been Is
sued, ~ required by law in attachment cases,
and the same having been duly returned
"levied:"
1t is therefore ordered, That said defendant
appear before me, at my office, in the city Of
Memphis, county of shelby, State of Ten
nessee. on the 18th day OF March, 1870. at 10
O'Clock a m, and make defense to said suit,
or the same VIII be tried exparte; and that a
copy Of this order be published in the Mem
phis Appeal for fOur consecutive weeks.
HUME +. I'LL,
febl7 Justice OF the Peace.
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N. q L. H. Isl sfsDS Il
The public debt statement Of March
1, rs compared with that Of February
I, shows a decrease of ST, 500, coo. The
amount Of coin in the Treasury is
SlO2, 400, $40, and of currency, S10,-
000, 900. Since March ], 1869, thedebt
has decreased So, 600, 600. OF this
amount of S102, 00O, 900 in coin now in
the Treasury, less than SI9, O00, 600 is
the property Of the Government. Ac-
cOrding to the statement, SH, 3S2, $40
belong TO private parties, being repre-
sented by gold certificates. Interest
accrued but unpaid amounts 10 $780,
232,39l.
The net amounts Of gold in the
Treasury were, at the aforementioned
dates, as follows:
April 1, '69, SH, 95I, 536; November
I, $50, DIS, 348; December /, 81, 29,j23;
January /, 20, SIG, rs, 1913; February l,
81, 81 ,4S7; March l, SIS, 7Sj, 500.
The Bank of Holland has reduced
its discounts to the medium of / per
cent, and its example is likely to be
followed by the other banks of the
Continent movement which, it is
believed, will have an excellent effect
upon business in Europe.
The downward course of gold has
unsettled business in the East TO a very
considerable extent. 1t opened in
New York to-day at 1873, and closed
atIl2S.- Our dealers buy at II2a112!,
and sell al Halls, with a fair de-
mand.
Specie payment was suspended at
the close Of 1851. The New York
.EueRiRq Post says the occasion of this
Was the weakness of the United States
Treasury, whose demand notes were
the accepted circulating medium Of
the country. but could no longer be
redeemed in gold. But the prema-
fure efforts made early IN 1862 to make
a speculative I" gold market" failed
for two reasons: The amount OF the
currency was not yet in excess Of de-
mand, and the confidence Of the people
IN the speedy overthrow Of the rebel
lion. and the consequent resumption OF
specie payments, was mistaken. 1he
currency remained practically a. good
as gold, until late in the summer,
when the delays Of Mcclellan madei it
Dlain that the war was 10 be pro-
longed; and, until the Treasury was
driven, BY the failure Of Congress to
provide sufficient tax laws, TO theissue,
under the Legal Tender act, of UMPIRE
cedented amounts of paper money.
In June and July the depreciation be-
came considerable, and all forms Of
specie disappeared from circulation.
The progressive depreciation Of the
currency is commonly disguised, adds
the Pogt, under the form of q " pre-
MUM on gold;" but, in fact, the value
in gold has not materially changed
in the last ten years. The supply has
been quite uniform, and the demand
has been influenced only occasionally
and temporarily by speculative causes.
il Is the paper currency that has been
bought and sold, at prices varying ac-
cording TO tie varying confidence OF
the public IN its ultimate redemption,
and according TO the excess OF it in
use. To appreciate the curse Of the
national credit, therefore, we should
quote the price, not Of gold, but OF
greenbacks. This price has varied as
follows:
A greenbaek dollar was worth in
cents Of real money
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Attachment Suit

In the Circuit Court OF Shelby eountv. Ten
nessee.-Henry Laird vs.. VIM Edwards.
4 WRIT Of attachment having been sued
n out against the estate Of The defendant.
VIM. Edwards, and returned by the Sheriff
levied on real estate, etc, in such case: and
afddavit having been made tnat The defend
ant is justly indebted to plaintiff in the sum
OF three hundred ana thirFy dollars and In
terest BY ppts due Nav 10. lo6S, and that the
defendant is a nonresident OF the state OF
Tennessee:
II is therefore ordered, That the defendant
make his personal appearance before the
Judge of the Circuit Court, OF a term Of said
fourth Monday in May next, ana defend said
attachment suit within the time prescribed
by law, or the same will be proceeded with
exparte; and that this notice be published
once a week, for four successive weeks. in
the Memphis Appeal
N. Z 4. STEWART, Clerk.
BY B.. T. COLEMAN, nc.
Wright & Wright, Att'ys for Plaintiff.
March 4. 1879. mh4
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value of g~reenbacks in 1866 was at
tanned in March, in a panic of the
spectators in gold and stocks; and
that their lowest apparent value IN
1869 was a merely nominal quotation,
made upon the famous BLACK Fri
day" in September, by a spectators
"~cOrner."
Tennessee bonds have been generally
steady in New York during the week
closing to-day as follows: Old, 5te.;
new, 45Ec. Governments closed dull,
with a slight decline.
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FINANCE AND TRADE:
OFFICE OF THE DAILY APPEAL,
MEMPHIS, March Z, 1870.
FINANCE.


Currency is accommodating rapidly,
and more than one OF our banking
houses report it a drug in the market,
so much so that they are at q loss to
put it to profitable use. Deposits
have increased largely for some time
back, and the demand for money is
very much lighter than ever before
known in Our city. Cotton moves
slowly, and the exchange made in
this way is but a small matter q COM
pared to the demand. Good business
paper is taken readily at 109l2 per
cent, and we have heard of even
easier rates upon the street. Indica-
tons point to an easy money market
for months TO come, and, should cot
ton continue quiet, currency will have
70 flow eastward much earlier b
usual to make exchange. Cotton bills
are in demand at to discount,
while the checking rate on New York
is firm at par-in fact, the banks make
no rebate in this respect to each
other.
The revenue officers at the East
have had their attention directed to
the practice on the part of banks of
making loans secured by government
bonds as collateral and payable on
call, without taking a written voucher
of Indebtedness other than a check,
and thus enabling the borrower to es-
cape the stamp duty of soc. per thOus-
and. 1t is now decided that such
checks must be stamped at the rate of
soc. per thousand, thus increasing the
rate of interest on these minute
loans, as they are appropriately
ned at the East, Ito per cent,
which Is equivalent, where money is
onIv earn Il over night, and immense
omGunts are Famed and called in each
twenty-four hourss to per cent. per
month for stamps aI4ne.
Local scrips are dull ana nominal.
City scrip is selling at 7Sc. % taX-pay-
ers, while dealers buy at 'oai6c'
County is nominally the same as city,
both buying and selling; while Ten
nessee money is quiet at Joe. selling,
with only one or two dealers buying,
and at irregular rates.
City bonds are dull. A dealer hav-
ing some to sell, could only get a bid
of 45c. The latest mail advices from
New York quote Southern securities
as follows, 1T must be remembered
that city bonds as quoted below nave
last July and January coupons
still attached:
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Attachment Notice.

State of Tennessee, Shelby cOunty.-BefOre
5. A. Moore. j. p in and Tor said county
W II Coghil VS.. Geo. BufOrd.
A FFIDAEIT having been made and bond
"A given, aud attachment having been is
sued as required by law In attachment cases,
and the same having been duly returned,
served by punishment etc, and defendant
not found;
IL Is therefore ordered, That said defendant
appear before me, at my office in the city of
Memphis, shelby county Tenn. on the nth
day OF April, 1879. at 2 O'Clock pm, and make
defense to said suit or the same Will be tried
exparte; and hat q copy OF this order be
consecutive weeks. !. A. MOORE, S-P.
March 5. 1870. mho
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Florence Sewing Machines.

PRINCIPAL POINTS OF EXCELLENCE
S~elf-Adiusting Tension, adapted TO sewing
the most delicate or the heaviest material
without change. Reversible feed. splendid
for staying and self fastening ends OF seams.
Makes fOuT different stitches on the one and
same machine. There are only twelve pieces
OF machinery IN its works, and Is a. positive
in its motion a. those OF a locomotive, and
on Same principle. Every machine is sold
complete, and furnished with a Goodrich
Tuck Marker, patent seltcorder, patent self
binder and edge-sttteher, patent rufiler, gath
erer. etc. without extra charge. Call ana see
1t work. HARMON q MORTON,
General Agents, 32h Main sL,
faho BAtvaen Monroe and lnHou
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COTTON.

The staple is d~emOralized, and has
declined rapidly since our last weekly
report. Middlings have gone down
&c. in this market since Tuesday last,
and lower grades have fallen even
more in proportion. The receipts for
the week were 72I bales; shipments,
1924 bales, andlthe weeks sales only foot
up 2440 bales. To-day hemarket was
fiat, with sales of 4i3 bales, Of which
81 bales were middling, at 2Oa2lc., and
I43 bales low middiing at l9a20c.
Low grades are very irregular and are
neglected, there being no orders on
the market, and reports from all sec
tons state that they are largely in ex-
cess of the demand. There is no COM
petition among buyers, and factors
are anxious to sell-SO much so that
they are compelled, where a sale is
effected at all, to take whatever is bid.
PIC. was an outside figure to-day for
middlings, and was only given in a
few cases, as buyers had their minds
made up TO pay but 20c., at which hg-
ure they succeeded in picking up sOme
small lots. A few bales Of good Ordi-
nary changed hands at 17aIo4c., and
we learned of some few bales selling
as low az l5c., but it was an eXcep-
tionaI case. The Liverpool market
declined Id. to-day, and New York
went down &c. since the opening this
morning.
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Gatarrh.
Stopped-up Head, Running OF the Nose, Con,
slant Hawking and splitting, Constant
Blowing of the Nose.

Thousands suffer nom thai most annoying,
disagreeabIe and offensive complain-Ca-
Jarrh, without knowing what it Is.
often the secreted mucous, flowing down
the throat clogs up the lungs, and lays the
foundation for conSump tiQn.
The most skillful physicians fail TO cure IL.
Recently, several "Ear Doctors" of this City
have turned their attention TO the treatment
of catarIh, L demand most fabulous prices
nom patients.
/ cure any case Of acknowledgements
head-dischgTges Of greenish, thick, thin, or
giairy mucous from the nose, internally or
externaily-pain or fGIlness between the
e-yes-cOnstant blowing of the nose-indRm-
nation of the nasal passages-ulceratiOn Of
the schuciderian membrane, etc, in the
course of 8 few laws.
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NOn-Resident hlotice.

No. s5-In the Chancery Court of Memphis,
Tennessee-P. ID. Morgan vs.. W. F Baker
and Others.
IT appearing from anidavtt In this cause
4 that the defendants. W. +. Baker and +. N.
Tennessee:
1t is therefore ordered, ms they make
their appearance herein, at the Courthouse
in the city Of Memphis, Tenn, ON the first
Monday in april, 1s70, and plead. answer OF
demur 10 complainant x OF y. A Shaw bill,
or the same viii be taken for confessed as 20
them, and set for hearing exparte; and that
a copy of this order be published once. a
week, for foul successive weeks, in the Mem
phis Appeal.
AUG6sTON ASTON, Clerk and Master.
By X J. BLACK, Deputy Clerk and Master.