Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-10
THE NEWS.

The Mississippi Legislature met on
Tuesday.
Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, was inau-
gurated yesterday.
A bureau Of insurance is to be estab-
Ished il Kentucky. All foreign cOrpo-
rstions will be required to deposit 100000
Of securities.
Mrs. General Ewell, Of Maury county,
Tennessee, furnishes the Maxwell House,
at Nashville, with n hundred pounds Of
fresh butter every week.
The false bishop, recently incarcerated
at Fort St. Angelo, Rome, was released
by order Of the good Pope Plus and es-
corted to the frontier by a posse Of gem
darmes.
The women of Wyoming enjoy privi-
Ieges that are denied to the rest of the sex
all the world over. They can sit on grand
juries and use the whole power Of the
government for the discovery of their
neighbOrs' faults and follies.
The MasOns of Columbia, Tenn, have n
public installation on the 18th. The Off
GERS viii be installed by Right Eminent
Past Grand Commander, Sir Lucius j..
Polk, and an address viii be delivered by
the Right Eminent Grand Commander.
On last Saturday Mr.. W. D. Mann, pro-
prietor OF the Mobile Register, was ar
rested on the charge Of d~efrauding the
Government while he held the Office of
Assessor of Internal Revenue. He was
subsequently released on a bond of $50, 900.
The Hudson river is a collection of ice
bergs and foes, from Troy to Peekskill.
One mountain is described as being two
miles in length and of unusual hight.
Navigation is impossible, except from
New York to Peekskill, between which
places it is difficult.
The burlesque has at last invaded the
House of Commons in England. Recently
a bill to require railway companies to
place fOOt-warmers in their carriages or
cars, was laughed put ofthe House by the
introduction of an amendment to supply
hot brandy, rugs and o~vercosts.
Aeorrespondent OF the APPEAL, writing
from New Orleans on the 9Th inst, says:
To-day the hegira Of strangers began
again. Steamboats, and railroads are
crowded with visitors returning home,
sser enjoying the hospitality and festivi-
ties extended by the generous citizens of
New Orleans"
Secretary Belknap has received dis
patches from Texas announcing the rati-
fcation by the Legislature Of the Thir-
teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments TO the Constitution of the United
States, and that Senator-elect Hamilton
was the bearer TO Washington of the Off
ciaI notification.
A plan Of steam communication be-
tween Liverpool and Australia is being
prepared in England, by which the dis
lance can be made in forty days, as fol-
lows: Milford Haven to Portland, Me-,
nine days; from Portland to San Fran
cisco, seven days; and from San Francisco
10 Australia, twenty-three days.
A Havana dispatch Of yesterday says:
A party Of ninety insurgents, command
ed by Arredondas, and consisting OF a
part Of the force of Jesus Del Sol, at CT
enanga de Seapsta, have arrived near
Guines, forty miles from Havana. Troops
from all points Of the surrounding coun-
try are marching against them.
We learn that the age and delicate
health Of the Most Rev. Archbishop Odin.
Of New Orleans, has suggested the idea Of
a coadjutor in the labOrs and studies of
the diocese, who would, in course Of time.
be his successor. The priest upon whom
choice has fallen is the Very Rev. n. J.
Perehe, who has for a length of time been
Vicar General and administrator unde
o the late and present Archbishop.
The Nashville Banner, ofSundav. saws.
Last night two men, named Vivrett and
Murphy, became involved in a Quarrel At
Spring Place, six miles out on the Leha-
non pike. Several shots were exchanged
by the parties. Vivrett was killed on the
spot, and Murphy shot through the lungs
and MORALLY wounded. The Vivrett
killed is a brother OF the Viyrett wounded
some time since in an ARRAY at the Louis
vile depot.
A movement is on foot for the total alb
olitition of the income tax, and is likely
10 be successful. The Ways and Means
Committee having decided to reduce in
ternaI taxation thirty millions Of dollars,
it win be proposed to abolish the income
tax, which does not yield a revenue of
tina thirty millions. By such a
course as this Congress will be able to
the desired end without being an
by attempted legislation looking
to a reduction Of taxation on special in
rather than on general mes like
the income TAX.
The general impression of the mercan-
tile community in regard to the illegal
decision is that there can be no
doubt that all obligations incurred before
The passage Of the act are payable, prin-
opal and interest, in gold. The legal pro-
ression are almost unanimously of that
So far, however, those against
his decision would operate chiefly,
the railroad corporations, are not
lisposed to submit to the consequences,
nat are rather disposed 10 make each
demand the subject Of a new liti-