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

The Carnival was enthusiastically cell
ebrated in Havana.
Al the large retail dry goods dealers at
Quincy, Illinois, resumed specie pay
ments yesterday.
Montgomery Blair is setting sail for a
seat in Congress from the Fifth Maryland
District, now represented by Frederick
Stone, Democrat,
J. J. Paul, Minister from Venezuela,
died suddenly in Washington, yesterday,
Of apople1y. He only arrived in this
country q few days ago.
A Mississippi exchange says: "FrOm
this time on Probate Courts viii be among
the things that were, in Mississippi, and
Chsncery Courts established in their
place.
Buffers friends want him for President.
He ought to be President Of the o~rganizs-
ton Of thieves in Chicago. It would be
about the same thing If he should become
the President Of radicalism.
Geo. F. Seward, Consul General to
Shanghai, who has been home for several
months, e~ndeavoring to have his salary
increased TO $500, and an appropriation
made TO build 8 jail and consular court
house in Shanghai, has been ordered to
turn to his post without delay.
The President has offered to General
Bsdeau, in case the bill passes Congress
uRiting the missions OF EcuadOr, Uruguay
and Paraguay into one, the position of
Minister to those Governments. 1t is IN
derstood that General Badesu has declined
the place, Preferring to take the Consul
ship at London, in place of Morse, who is
to be removed.
Joe Murphy and Elijah Vivrett, while
engaged in a game of cards Saturday night
at Spring Place, Davidson county, six
miles from Nashville, became excited
and after quarreling, fought. Vivrett
was shot dead on the spot, and Murphy
received a wound of which he died last
evening. Both parties were under the in
fuenee Of liquor.
Our regular correspondent writes US
from New Orleans that that city presents
its most attractive appearance at present.
The fruit trees are in bloom, flowers of
every description are to be seen, while
orange trees bearing their golden fruits
adorn the ornamented gardens Of the cit
liens. The weather has been delightful;
the occasional showers reminding one Of
the land described by the poet:
Where sunshine and shadow are chasing
each other"
The Jackson Miss Clarion says Of Col.
Speers, n OF the gentlemen killed by
the accident on the Mississippi Central
Railroad, that he was a native of Pennsyl-
vania, though he had resided in Missis-
sippi twenty-five years. His whole ca
reer had distinguished him as one of the
best, most useful, and public-spirited of
our citizens OF our State. Foremost in
every public enterprise, warm in his affec-
tons, true to all the obligations of life,
as citizen, neighbor, friend, husband and
father, his career was without a blemish.
We have never known a kinder or more
generous nature; and his courage was OF
that nobler mould that carried him for
ward to the achievement OF worthy ends
disdainful Of obstacles, real or imaginary,
which interviewed.
An army correspondent, writing from
Fort Mcintosh, Texas, and signing him
self Centurion reyives the following
good joke on Don Piatt, Washington let
ter-writer for the Cincinnati Commercial.
He says: "Once upon a time, when the
Illustrious Pruden presided over the Pro
bate Court, d. l., then lawyer, now pro-
fessional s~atirist, undertook to make
game Of the gallant Colonel Sullivan, q
well known Irish attorney Of the Cincin-
natl bar. Don was funny, very funny,
and the laugh was on Sullivan until at
last he p~ropounded his remarkable the
Ory in regard to his friend and pitcher:
'Gtntemia,' he said to the jury, when
God made Don Piatt he did not think he
was good, and did not know whether to
put him in circulation or not. But at last
He wrote on him, passed, Bat without re-
souorss on Me- So, II Sullivan isgOod legal
authority, neither D. P. nor his letters
should be accepted as legal tenders"
a correspondent writes us of the theatre
Gals in New Orleans: 1.-THE theaters, not
withEtanding Lent and IS solemnities,
imposing fasting and prayer Upon Christ
isDs, are well attended. At the 81. Charles
Thsater Mrs. Price is presenting the char
aeter OF Helen ROlteston, in " Foul PLAY"
In the magnificent Opera House, the
French Opera Company presents tonight
Donizstti's La Favorite." AT the Aead-
envy OF Music, the Fox Pantomime and
Kirslfy Ballet Troupe attract large audi
snces. The introduction of the English
Opera, by the Riching Troupe, has at
trseted much attention, and has proved a
success in a city conseerated TO music
under all its FORMS. Large audiences have
greeted the troupe since their arrival. At
the matinee to-day the [" Doctor Of Alcan-
tara was presented, and tonight will be
given, for the second time, Balfe's 'Bohe-
milan Girl"
The New York Tribune says innumer-
able have been the "voices" raised for
Ireland-the novels, poems, essays, his
tories. dramas written, the speeches pro-
noupced in her behalf, Of all which has
come not so much emancipation as we
could desire. Now we have information
that Mr.. Victor Hugo, also, is about to
/" raise - his "voice" for Ireland. The
.vmuatby Of the eminent Frenchmsn viii
doubtless take the form of a pleasantly
narrowing romance; but before manufac-
turing this it is to be hoped that NJ. Hugo
Iii make himself somewhat better ac-
a,.;,ted with Irish han he has shown
stmeaIft to be with English history. There
- annie sources Of knowledge, if this
-ovellst viii but improve them, for the
-Saolz Of ireland, for centuries, are I'M
- horrible. Even Poland, which
.5snds for type Of oppressed nationali-
- hss not suffered so bitterly. There
& no political iniquity Of which We may