Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-15
NEW YORK
accidents, Accidents and DeyiItries.

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE second
triennial reunion of the Society of the
Army of the James will be held in this
city, July 18th. The OratiOn will be
delivered by Major General Terry, and
an original poem recited by Colonel
John Hay.
The Polaris will remain at the
| Brooklyn navy yard until ready to
start nOrthward. Those Of the crew
who accompanied him on the former
expedition speak enthusiastically Of
the preparations made by Captain
Hall, and are hopeful of his discovery
Of northwest passage.
The POlaTis will take in supplies to
last to a point in Greenland where
they will await the coming Of the
| stOre-ship Supply with additional sup
plies and provisions. A reception to
Captain Hall and officers is to be ten
dered by the American Geographical
Society and will come of next week.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
Richardson, with MessTs. BigelOW and
Prentiss, of the Treasury Department,
sailed on the Java for Liverpool to-
day, for the purpose Of promoting the
disposal of the new Government
bonds, and also bearing dispatches to
Minister Schenck. The party take
out several millions of the new regis
tered bonds in a safe made expressly
for their use by the Treasury Depart
ment.
Foster, the murderer Of Putnam, is
reported to be very hopeful Of a new
trial, for which his counsel are now
making an effort. Rev. DR.. Tying
visits him frequently, and his wife
passes most of her time in his cell.
None Of his relatives have visited
him since the murder.
Senator Morton arrived in the city
to day en- route for Long Branch.
Henry Ward Beecher will deliver
an address on the Inauguration of the
bust of Washington Irving in Pros
pect Park on the 24th instant.
The mutilated parts of a human
body, found in g bag in 1864, and
which created great excitement at the
time, have Just been discovered to be
the remains OF a soldier named Joseph
Smith, by confession OF q prisoner in
jail at Sidney, Australia, for free
fight, in which one party was fatally
wounded. The prisoner says that he
and some fellOW-men had been drink.
ing and gambling, and. being out Of
money, determined to rob Smith
of five hundred dollars, which
he had obtained by jumping bounty.
They took him into a coach factory,
on Prince street, where they first
killed him and then cut him up. They
then took a coach and committed his
remains TO the river. The man who
killed Smith is dead, but his COM
panions will probably suffer the full
extent of the law in Australia.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE Presi-
dent left for Long Branch last even
ing.
The singular and unaccoUntable
| horse disease which made its appear
ance here recently has not abated. 1t
battles the skill Of the veterinary sur
| geOns. The disease is very rapid IN
its results, generally producing death
within tWenty-iOur hours. Yesterday
the Third avenue railroad lost thirty
animals, the Second avenu twenty,
and other lines propOrtiOnately large
numbers. The superintendent Of the
Broadway and Seventh avenue lines
| estimates the deaths so far at NOT less
| than two hundred animals.
John McGinnis, aged IS, ttied 10
kill his mother and father, at New
Rochelle, yesterday, but, not succeed
/ ing, contented himself with burning
their dwelling.