Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-11
NEW YORK GOSSIP.

( NEW YORK, August I0.-General Me.
/ Clellan, in company with General
| Marcy and a party Of friends, left last
night on trip to Utah and California.
A Bradford, New Hampshire, dispatch
says that Horace Greeley spent the day
i'm retirement there yesterday, the guest
of Colonel Tappan.
The French Band gave their last per
formanee last night at the armOry Of the
Twenty-second regiment, and sailed fol
France to-day by the steamer Washing
ton.
Dispatches from Maine say that very
active canvassing is going on on both
sides throughout the entire State, Mr..
Doolittle working very hard in behalf Of
Greeley. Governor Moves has arrived
and is addressing Republican meetings.
Senator Wilson is also shortly expected.
Since theletter of GeIritt Smith, inter-
ceding for the imprisoned kuklux at Al
bany, similar recommendations have
been received from influential Republi-
cans. The report of Colonel Whitley,
Chief of the Secret Service, who has been
directed by the President to investigate
the several eases, will be the basis of the
President action, who has already init
mated his willingness to comply with
the suggestions made.
The new French Minister was yester-
day seeking accommodations for the le-
CATION. 1t is the intention of the French
government to be represented on a scale
somewhat in advance of what has here
tOfore prevailed.
w. w. CorcOran has sold his country
seat, known as HarWood, and donated
the proceeds, two hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars, to the Gallery of
Art, which he already had donated to
the city of Washington.
A Charlotte, North Carolina, dispatch
says that Newton V. Chandler, the no.
tOriOus criminal and desperate, was
executed there yesterday. He was only
twenty-five years old, and made a con-
fessiOn of his crimes, which included
murder, robbery and other foul deeds.
lie was, besides, one of the members of
a kukluX klan.
\ letter has been received by Senator
James Oil5rien from BlantOn Duncan,
asking him to organize a straight-Out
Democratic movement in this city. IT
is understood, however, that O'Brien
declines to have anything to do with the
matter.
The scaflolding at No. 40, Third ave-
nue., gave way to-day, and three men
Thomas Wall, Michael Malone and w.
Hanley-were precipitated to the earth,
a distance of forty feet. Wall and Ma
lone were fatally and Hanley seriously
injured.
The Treasury disbursed to-day sixty
nine thousand dollars.
President Grant arrived here this
morning and left Immediately for Long
Branch.
The shipments of specie for the week
amount to two hundred and twenty
seven thousand two hundred and sixty
six dollars.
John Harperhas sold his horse, Little
ton, to A. Welch, of Philadelphia, who
intends to enter him for the interna-
tiOnal races at New Orleans.
Mr.. Seward and family arrived in the
city from Auburn to-day.
Arrivals to-day include the S. :.
Schmidt, from Bremen, and the Column
bia, from Havana.
One hundred and fifty longshoremcn
have been discharged from the Hoboken
docks and their places supplied by men
from New York. They struck some
weeks ago and their demand for an ad-
vance of wages was complied with; but
all are now thrown out of work, as plenty
of men can now be found to work at the
old rates,