Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-30

CoIOred voters in Cincinnati have de- {
clared for free trade. Having 100000
votes in the United States, if the whole I
eolored population take this course, :
Radicalism win n itself undone. #,
A negro debating society at Massie-
vile, Ohio, are going tOtaekle the follow !
ing: Resolved, That Jef Davis and :
Cabinet have done more for the enamel
patton Of the eolOred race than hnken
and cabinet" ,
Pullman, Of sleeping-car notoriety, has !
arranged with President Grant and a select !
party Of his friends, including some mem I
bers of the Cabinet, TO make a journey 70 I
the Pacific coast soon after the adjourn :
ment of Congress. I
1t is said that Father Hyacinthe has
been converted to Professionalism by M. i
de Pressense, and that he IS about COM {
hitting matrimOny and taking charge of I
a Lutheran Church. The RGppet OF Paris !
Is responsible for this story. I
All readers Of the Appeal will read
with regret that It Is believed in Virginia
that Gen. Lees health is rapidly falling. !
He has gained some strength by his !
Southern trip, but not enough to keep
his friends from responding. J
Miss Kellogg and a host of other pop :
ular lyric and instrumental artists, APP
peared at the Academy of Music, New I
York, on Monday last, for the benefit of
the Episcopal Church Charity, known as
/ the HhHNIeflnB ATAlS As9luuls
When the Cubans take possession of
Havana they win probably ngage Ben
jamin +. Butler to clean the city and
the very filthy harbor, on account of his
great sSecess as a Street COMMISSIONS q
when he was ia New Orleans.
During the delivery of lecture by Msr.
DIR. Mary Walker in Kansas, a few days
] ago, a pTecoci0us youth-1 IN the audience :
cried out, Are you the Mary that had a
4 1sffNa 1auah9ff hNnffB Waa fhH rnaaV Fa-
Ras : out your m0'h'' hAo = n''i' jack !
And now come the Fiji Islanders, and |
I having heard Of Uncle Sans readiness to !
make outside real estate investments, |
propose through their agent, Mr.. Win {
tiers, to become citizens of the Republic, G
and good voters under th6 Fifteenth /
Amendment. :
The Ecumenical Council suggests TO the :
Pope ths desirability of issuing an invi- !
tation to the Jews, exhorting them to 1
abandon their vain expectation of a l
Messiah, and to acknowledge Christ as I
the true Savior promised by Abraham
sQd announced by Moses" G
A London correspondent writes under /
date of 18th inst.s ~ am spprised, by an f
authority perfectly well informed, that r
Mr.. Bright will not return to his place In Z
Parliament during the present session, :
aad that be will shortly resign the Presi- :
QeuCy VI bGe ROaLu VI ALd0cs u
Among the distinguished military Off c
GERS who have accepted commissions in y
the army Of the Viceroy Of Egypt, are o
Generals LOring, Sibley, Pickett and Tom {
EEett, and Colonel Jenifer, formerly of
the Confederate army, and General Stone, +
formerly Of the GEitsd States army. +
The Five Points of san Franciseo are to >
be intersected by a new,graHd boulevard =
to rival that Of Paris. Deadfalls, gam .
bling bells, and a general mass Of wick 2
edness, that wOuld do credit to a much a
older city, will be removed, and altOgeth- n
er there viii be quite a moral purifca- v
ti0n. +,
one Of the practical ideas of Europe y
which ought to be borrowed and Improved u
upon by Americans is the building of u
houses to be rented by the floor, that is,
so constructed that each floor will possess u
the c~onveniences of a small home, and d
accommodations for a moderate sized n
family. h
The last rail of the st. Louis, VandaIa =
and Tsrre Haute railroad was laid some p
days since, aHd we have now intelligence =
of the opening of its hBe icon bridge Ove p
the Wabash river at Terre HaHte for the "A
passage Of trains. It is claimed that this NJ
route is IS miles shorter than any other al
to New York. s,
A foundry at Washington, D.. c., has N
for some months past been using petrO- 81
leum as its sole fuel. We do not know ~
what sort of furnace machinery is used, -
but the experiment is entirely successful, q
and results IN dispensing with firemen, q
cOal-heaving and other labor incident TO I'll
the use OF coal. th
A san Francisco correspondent saws: al
The condition of the crops OF California ds
a. in every way hopeful, and an unusual sn
area has been placed unde cultivation. N
successful culture Ct the ramie plant N
IN the southern counties of California es- . w
pecially, has passed beyond the range of ~
an experiment. Ut
The East is now the only place on the De
globe where American vessels are sue To-
cessfully competing with English steam tn
Euglishmen, with all their preiu- in
dices, will not travel on their own mar in
and badly ventilated screw steamers, ma
after once making q passage on the mag
nihcent Pacific mail boats. -
The rite Of circumcision Is no longer "
universally praeticed among the Jews. ~
SiXty-siX Jewish physicians Of Vienna vi
nave published a manifesto against it, p0
md the Rabbinical Congress resolved that III
.he male child Of a Jewish woman is, mi
wen il UnGircumcised, by the fact of his Inv
a member OF the Jewish oOmmu- o.
a.,
Rev. Peter B. Daley, aged 20 years, a -
PRIEST. died in st. Peters Hospital, Con- III
,ress street, Brooklyn, Monday after W
iOOn, Of injuries at the hands of his Br
lleCb, MARY DdlleNs Of 81 Sack6bb street. Snl
The couple had a4uarrel about two weeks ms
and Mary assaulted her aged uncle mn
With an axe and cut him severely. She is r.,
II jail. ~
The Waubansee correspondent of the
Kansas Herald saws that a VERY Z
urious phenomenon took place on the =.
own site, near DR.. Weaver's, last Satur- 40
lay evening, about seven o'clock. A tar
yhirlwiud rose very suddenly, carving of
verifying that came in its way, appar- VI
ntly 70 the very zenith, and making a Sol
caring noise that could be heard two cot
niles or more, but did no harm. -
Prof Morse attained distinction as a CIV
painter before he achieved the tor
fame Of inventing the electric +ba
His artist work was highly '"~
.rized for likeness, color, and tasteful an'
A specimen of it may be seen thr
d the present New York National Acad- =.
Exhibition. II is a portrait of the pei
philanthS pist, DR.. Stamford, fab
over forty years ago. Ion
The London Morning Post saws: at ~
lay also be possible to open TO them Oi
gomen) some more profitable fields Of has
than they now have, but nature -
as defined their position in society too am
.early and has given them too important her
part TO play in life to allow Us to con- +;os
,und rights which belong to them, with ''0'
theirs which do not without lowering al {
lem and lessening their proper inhu- haC
nce." W
The compulsory fight of United States OH
onsul Phillips from Santiago de Cpbs inc
as olsgraceinl enough to our national bee
10 appears, we have been forced to d u
sscend. Admiral Poor took Mr., Phil als(
back to the post from which he had CO.
sen so ANONYMOUSLY expelled, on board Olo
he flag ship Severn, and on his arrival at Sta
antisgo asked permission for Consul 10
hnlips &c 90 ashore ifthe Governor con-
dered he could do so with safety! The ma
overpor replied in the affirmative and Civ
ranted the permission. @ =.
Governor Merrill, Of Iowa. Governor ~ 4
utter, of Nebraska, and Goyernor Fair sha
hid, Of Wisconsin, are urging Congress Wa
give the people a free water channel Ie-
Yeen the Mississippi river and Lake yea
by way Of the Fox and Wiscon- VIII
N rivers, and the consequent reduction
D the freight beBWeen the Ohio grain oOh
and the grain consuming States. cap
here is every probability that the bill GOO,
ending will pass in accordance with the
desire Of the West. A bill prepared Tim
his city was sent 20 Mr.. Wells, MEM will
sr Of Congress from st. Louis, which
rovtded for the connection OF Lake up.
and the Illinois river by a ship two
mai and for the connection of the Mis- 20 \
'uri and Arkansas rivers BY the same W
cans. By locks and dams the flood tide enr
the Mississippi, through this system of ou,
mails, might be regulated at will, and ~
is whole valley, thus relieved of over vii
'ws,, would become the richest and most tart
.ates. eau
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