Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-12

the Southern Railroad Assoc alton. states
that the late accident on the Mississippi
Central "ygas caused by the removal of a
rail bvs some miscreant, and from no fault
of the road" Mr.. II. Furthermore claims
that the road is in a good condition.
The Southern Home of Charlotte NC
a V of General Thomas that, " in all his
degeneracy he retained a trace of that
achivalrv' which GeneralLGrant so much
despises. The seornful manner with
which he rejected all gifts and brides,
Droves that he never entirely lost bis early
training and association"
The New Orleans Tines says: ave had
Thursday night Ons of the most remarka-
bic hail and rain storms ever experienced
in tbfs CITY. The hall stones were not
large and did but little damage, but the
rain came down as if all b windows Of
heaven had again been opened. We never
before saw the streets so completely sub
merged in 50 brief a Storm"
Commissioner DelanO has addressed
letters to the revenue officials IN Chicago,
st. Louis, CinSlnnatls New York, Phlla-
deIphia and Baltimore, With the view of
getting definite information concerning
the process of manufacturing Weiss beer,
he question having been EnbmittId
whether it is a fermented beer and sub
iect to the requirements Of the revenue
law.
The Grand Army Of the Republic IS 70
commemorate the assassination OF Lin
coin, in Washington, by alecture by Muir
doch. entitled "RecOllectiOns and impress
sions of Abraham Lincoln" In place or
the once ever lasting Niger, al last
'splaved out" we are to have the late
lamented A" and self glOriicatiOn over the
remains Of such Of the truly loyal as hap
pen to shuttle on this mortal coil. Pity
for the "late lamented."
The Richmond CVa.) Whig says the At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio bill now be-
fore the Legislature of b State, contem-
plates the consolidation of three roads ex-
tending from Bristol to Norfolk, and the
transfer Of the interest of the State IN
these roads to the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio Company for the consideration
ofthe payment TO the State annually of
two and a half per cent. of the gross re-
ceipts of the latter company.
The San Antonio (Texas) Herald, of the
25th instant, SAYS: "The ground is now
thoroughly saturated with rain, and as
far as we have been able to learn, the rain
has been general, and never before'has the
prospect seemed better for good crops OF
all kinds than during the coming season.
Our planters were somewhat delayed by
the rain not coming a month sooner; but
most of the ground has been. prepared,
and some have even planted their crops,
and work will go on briskly."
The Washington correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch says: A document
was received at the Treasury department
a few laws ago, from a party in Wades-
boro, n. c.. containing the names Of $50
residents of that place and showing he
amounts subscribed by them for Confed-
crate bonds from March Gath to April 4th,
1854, to be S9O6. 700, but whether in gold,
greenbacks or Confederate money, the
document does not say. This black list
is got up to mark the subscribers for Off
cisl vengeance.
The Hearth and Home gives the follow
ing recipe for making a mineral manure
that is especially adapted TO potatoes:
Take one cask of lime aid slack it with
water. aud then stir in it one buShel of
fine salt, and hen mix in loan, or ashes
enough that il will not become mortar; it
will make about five barrels. Put half q
pint in a hill at planting. All manures
containing potash are particularly suita-
bic for the potato. Ashes contain more
than any other natural fertilizer, and
should be freely used and carefullysaved.
A bill is now before Congress ehartering
a mail steamship company between New
Orleans and Vera Cruz M South Ameri-
tdu DOTLEs IL - al TIC bioIG Ahc4N ~
pass that this Republic of Mexico proposes
TO aid 10 by a subventiOn from the Ma
tiOnal treasury. The commercial public
Of New Orleans are clamOrous for this en-
terprise, as they are DESTROYS of sharing in
the S54, 600, 900 Of Mexican foreign COM
merce, the larger proportion of which now
to Great Britain.
A negro Juror recently summoned to
attend court by a deputy sheriff, ran
sbrieking INTO the house Of his employer,
his wool standing on end, and confront
ing his mistress said: misses, they have
TUX me to court, / neber stole anytin in
my life. Fo' Gods sake sem for de white
folks to save me-" II being explained TO
him that he was required, not as a crimi-
nal, but to act in certain mOoted cases of
life and property then depending, he was
with sore difficulty prevailed upon to put
in an appearance.
They have an astronomical prophet at
the North, who has been fOretelling a Sc
res Of fearful storms and commissions of.
natur throughout our entire land, par
ticulariy the Northern regions, to com
msnoe on the 9th Of April, or thereabOuts,
and to go on, increasing in violence, till
chaos comes again. Earth, sea and sky,
he declares, are full of ominous pOrtents,
presaging dire calamity. The seasons are
10 become SO interblended that M cannot
be told from the others, and confusion is
to become worse COMPOUNDED in every de-
partment OF the material world.
The New Orleans Times says: Perhaps
the most contemplate of all Charles Sum
ner's many and repeated manifestations
of littleness, was his application TO Sena-
tor Ross, the occupant Of Jefferson Davis
old seat in ths Senate chamber, TO sur
render It to the negro Revels. Such a
.-a-- Tt 90 Tsnrn vran.FFFnr ~, Fha
grave Of a dead grandmother, could never
have been conceived by other than a das-
tard heart and coward spleen. Mr.. Ross
did right when he resented with al i'm
precation which would nave mad any
mans ear tingle with shame except
Charles Sumner.
Forney. of the Washington Chronicle,
who is justly O~stracised from all decent So
ciety on account of his JamisOn letter, in
a recent number of that one of the two
papers TO which he particularly devotes
himself, and ia which he degrades jOurn-
alism by shameless trucculency and sub
s~ervieney, v 1t is proper that JEFF.
and Robert j.. Lee, who devoted
the education bestowed upon them by the
bounty of the Government TO efio rts for
establishing a slave empire, should be
succeeded in the Military Academy by a
number OF the race witch they despise
aud tranpled upon" kike master, like
man. Forney, who is Grants creature,
but speaks the sentiments of that tool Of
the bOnd-hOlders. He feels that 50 long
as Davis and Lee live, the people will in
dulge in contrasts unfavorable to his
and the position in which he has
been bolstered by loyal leagues, Grand
Armies Of the Republic, by overriding
The constitution Of his country, and by
trampling upon the liberties Of the peo-
pie.
EVEN in the form given to the
nronooftion for ananast,y h., GanaraI