Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-27

$50, 900 from the banking house Of Scott,
Williams d Co., in Columbia, 5. G., last
week. Michael McCarty, a discharged
soldier, was arrested on Wednesday last
and identified as n OF the burglars.
Don Pedro, the Brazilian Emperor, de-
clines an equestrian statue in honor OF the
death of Lopez as the finishing touch of
the Paragusyan war. He advised the
COMMITTEES who addressed him to expend
the money for the primary schools OF Rio
Janeiro.
Discussing the project of manufacturing
a large share of the cotton crop in the
South, instead of shipping it 20 Europe,
the New York Times thinks that by DO
ing so the staple would be increased in
value by the addition of labor fully one
hundred per cent.
Sam johnson, living near Rheatown,
Tenn, on Tuesday morning went out to
look after his stock, and was found a few
hours afterward, by some of his family,
dead under a rail fence. Whether death
was produced by accident or design was
not RsceTtained.
Of late there has been a marked increase
In the number of emigrants who have ar
rived in this country from Europe, and
now the cable informs us that ten large
steamers, carrying in the aggregate near
" six thousand more ~emigrants, are on
] Au6lL way AtIOo6 NAC AA4hulAls
The captain ofthe steamship Venezuela
refuses to have His vessel towed to a port.
She is now fOrty-three days out. Her
passengers, luckily, had already been
brought TO New York by the Camilla, so
that the captain has only the lives of
himself and crew to risk in this insane
business.
The Louisville Methodists are to make
a determined effort, before the General
/ Conference which meets in Memphis next
week, for the removal of the Publishing
House from Nashville 10 hat city. If It is
ever moved it ought to be to Memphis, a
live city, and not to Louisville, quite a
half dead one.
Treating of the New Orleans and Chat
tanOoga Railroad, the Mobile Register
says: All the bridges along the route
from New Orleans to Mobile, are now up,
with the exception of the bridge at BIZ
ioxi, which will not be completed until a
short time before the final opening of the
road, which grand event is fixed by the
company to take place OF the 4th of July
next"
Tn approach OF violent storms is now
announced by telegraph in England,
France, Holland and Italy. The plan has
been found TO work admirably, and has
produced important results. The system
should be generally adopted in this u
try. It may not be generally known that
a bill has lately passed Congress author
izing the adoption of the method at mill
tary posts in the United States.
A dispatch from Washington, yester-
day, v 1.-THE President again ex-
pressed himself yesterday to members of
Congress as opposed to the Senate bill in
such strong terms that there is a bare pos
sibility that if it were enacted into a law
he would veto it. He said that the Senate
bill postponed reconstruction, which he
was anxious tosee closed up blythe admis-
sion Of Georgia to representation in Con-
gress."
The Government is determined to put
a stop to the wholesale smuggling on the
Southwestern frontier, known as Free
Belt. The Secretary of the Treasury,
finding the Revenue Department unable
to exercise surveillance over the whole
frontier, issued an order disseminating
certain routes for the expectation of mer-
chandise in bond to Mexico. If neces-
sary, he will forbid expectation entirely.
This breaks up the depot of the hitherto
headquarters for smugglers.
A dispatch from Washington yesterday
saws: There is o imminent the GER
tain prospect of an Indian war. Advices
received and telegraphed supplementary
bring still more startling news, official
and Dispatches received to-
day at the headquarters of the army say
that within a month 10000 Sioux are ex-
pected on the war path. These with their
allies, the Cheyennes and other north
ern tribes, will make a formidable force.
The cause is, as usual, the failure of the
Government to live up to treaty stipula-
tons"
A dispatch from Athens, Greece, yester-
day, says: Troops sent to recapture Mr..
Duncaster and party killed thirteen bri-
gands and eight others. Chief Keavel es-
capped, after numbering all prisoners eX-
cept Lord Duncaster, who escaped. The
prisoner reported inland on parole was
not the Lord stated, but another of that
name. The brigands were pursued seven
days, they dragging their prisoners, night
and day, through morasses and ravines.
On the fourth day Lord Duncaster, be-
coming exhausted, Jagged behind and es-
capped. On the fifth, Herbert English and
BOyel were shot, and Mr.. Viner, brother
of Lord Grey, and Lloyd, were killed with
poinards.