Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-14

| NEW YORK, hafcl l3.-I0e con-
tract is signed with the English capi-
talists for constructing the Central
| Underground Railroad from the City
Hall to Forty-secondStreet. Security
has been given in the sum of $lO,0O0,-
600. The work begins in June.
The annual Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church assemblies here
on the 9Th of April. Bishop Jones
| pTesides, and over $50 ministers are
expected to be present,
The Cuban League has issued an
address to the American people, urg-
ing the accordance of belligerent
rights to the Cuban Republic, and
calling a mass meeting for Cooper
Institute On April 4th.
James Fisk, jr., has procured the
introduction into the New Jersey
Legislature, Of a bill relieving the
Erie Railroad from the tax assessed
upon the company by the Jersey City
authorities, and placing it on an
equality with the Camden and AmbOy,
which only pays a State tax of one
half per cent,
Another vacancy on the bench of
the United States Supreme Court will
soon be created by the resignation OF
Justice Samuel Nelson. There is
much interest in legal circles as to the
succession, for which VIM. II. EveTts,
Of this city, and Ward Hunt, one Of
the Judges of the New York Court of
Appeals, are prominent candidates.
Ffom the Plains.
NORTH PLATTE. NER., March IA
A man was garroted and robbed last
night of between three and four thou
Sand dollars. Two men were arrested,
charged with the crime, they being
found lying in an old barge one mile
below here. On searching the barge,
jewelry, stolen from the store of Nc
Lucas & Dick, q few days since, was
found
OMAHA, March i9.-The Howie
murder case Is still pending. The
Jury can't agree, and are ordered to
be confined until nine o'clock am,
when the Court agrees to meet them.
They were allowed dinner and suppeP.
The women looked pale and fatigued,
this being the fourth night OF their
confinement. There is general COM
plant among the married men.
L'.I-A3IIE City, March 13.-The
Jury in the HOWE rrraEdeg case re-
turned a verdict at twelve o'clock last
night, of guilty OF mansiaughter in
the first degree. The ladies of the
jury were much fatigued.
CHEYENNE, WYOMING T., March 13. |
Information received from Fort Felt |
erman says that an Indian arrived |
yesterday from Red Clouds camp on
Tongue river, and reports that the In |
dians are friendly and desiring peace. |
Richards LEFT the camp twenty-three |
days ago to communicate with the |
whites.
Red Cloud thinks that the conduct |
OF the Indians will depend, in a great |
measure, on what Richards reports. |
Red Cloud has two hundred lodges /
with him.
CHICAGO, March 13.-A mob took |
two thieves from the officers at North
Platte, to-day, and hung them.
CHICAGO, March I2.-Gen. Sheridan
to-day issued the following General |
Order:
HD. QEs. Mil. DRY. OF MISSOURI, |
CHICAGO, March II. |
General Orders No. 1.
The. Lieut.. General commanding
this Military Division takes great
pleasure in announcing to his COM
mand the complete success of the 2nd
and 18th Infantry regiments,
under the command of Brevet Col.
Baker, of the ID Cavalry regiment,
against a band of Pigeon Indians sin
Montana. These Indians, whose prOX-
unity to the British line has furnished
them an easy and safe protection
against attack, have hitherto murder
ed and stolen with cOmpartive impu-
lity in defiance and contempt of the
of the Government, after
having been repeatedly warned. They
have at last received a carefully pre-
pared and well-merited blow in mid
winter, the thermometer below zero,
when experience had led them to be-
ieve they could not be attacked. By
his blow one hundred and seventy
.hree Indians were killed, thirty
horses captured, and the village and
Of the band totally destroy
cd. The Heutenant-general cannot
too highly the spirit, and
he conduct of the troops and their
commander under difficulties and
lardships they experienced in in
lemency of weather, and as one of
ha results of this severe, but well
nekited punishment of these Indians;
nd he cOngratulates the citizens of
Montana upon the reasonable pros
'ect of future security for their prop
rty and lives.
BY command of Lieutenant General
sheridan.
lSigned.l GEO. L. HARTsUFF, i
A. A. G.