Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-12

was relieved from office; but by in
structions at the time, from Washing
ton, he was not prosecuted. Yester-
day orders were received for his pros
ecution.
A dispatch received from New
York Thursday says there was a very
large gathering of the members of the
bar in the general term room of the
Supreme Court yesterday, to witness
the formal presentation Of McDOnald's
bust of the late James T. Brady to
the Law Institute Of the city Of New
York. Imposing and eloquent adj
dresses were made by ex-Judge Ed
munds and J. w. Gerard, Esq.
The Pacific Railroad Committee of
the House on Tuesday agreed to re-
port a bill allowing the Northern Pa
cific Railroad Company TO issue cou-
pom bonds, secured by mortgages on
their property, to build the road,
and authorizing them, where the
lands already granted are occupied,
to take ar amount outside equal to the
occupied land. 1t appeared in the
discussions before the committee that
40, 900, 600 acres had already been
granted this corporation.
The Republicans in Congress do not
seem to be well pleased with the de-
! cisiOn Of the Supreme Court in the le-
gal tender cases, for they think geneT-
ally that if the question had actually
been before them the court would
have decided the legal-tender act
wholly unconstitutional. In the full
fllmentof these views, Mr.. IngersOll,
of Illinois, made two unsuccessful at
tempts on Tuesday to introduce q
XVIth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton, authorizing the issuing of legal
tender notes,
There are now in the vaults of the
Treasury Department thirJy-fOur boxes
Of cancelled steel plates and other
materials heretofore used by the
American, National and Continental
Bank Note Companies in the printing
of Government stamps and money
bonds. The Secretary has requested
Senator Thayer to act as chairman of
a committee to examine the contents
of the boxes, and compare them with
the schedules of those furnished by the
BureauX of EngrOssing and Printing,
and Internal Revenue. They are to
be taken to the Navy Yard and then
melted in blast furnaces.
Great indignation has been express
ed in Paris, says a Paris letter, sat the
conduct of some persons after the ex-
ecutiOn of Traupmann. The accusa-
ton is that two ladies dipped their
handkerchiefs in Traupmann's blood,
and that some young gentlemen did
the same with their canes. The officer
on duty told them that they were bar
barians, and ordered them away.
There has, it would seem, been q
somewhat undignifed fight over the
body Of Traupman between diff
ferent professors at the Ecole de
Medicine.
G~ottschalk, says a letter to the Chi
cagO Post, would rise in the morning
about nine O'Clock, and after having
partaken Of a cup of coffee, run his
fingers over the keys Of the piano until
two; this rule he never varied from.
Should any friends call to see him
during those hours, he would con-
verse with them while he continued
his practicing. He was master Of
seven languages, and was as fluent in
one as another. At the time of his
death his presents were worth about
fifty thousand dollars in gold, while
his property in all amounted to about
two hundred thousand dollars. He
supported his sisters and mother up
to her death.