Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Scramble for Place Already Begun
The Philadelphia Delegation and the
President Can't Agree.
Important Dispatches from Minister
Sickles-GOssip and Incidents
OF the Day.

CATION Of Pennsylvanians, headed b,
the Governor elect, Senator Cameron
ex-COngressman OiNeil and Others, [,
the number Of thirty, had an interview
to-day with the President, in relation {,
the appointment OF postmaster for Phil
adelphia. They urged George Trueman
a merchant Of that city, for the place
The President listened attentively, bu
gave no definite response relative TO tn,
selection. George Taireman, q clerk il
the Office, is also a candidate. An ap
pOintment under the civil service regu
Aations enters into the controversy. A
special says the President Is inclined e
appoint the clerk, and the delegation /,
somewhat excited in consequence.
Dispatches from General Sickles. Min,
lister from the United States at Madrid
report the pardon Of Julius KryzWossey
uski, sometimes written Kryke, under
going sentence Of ten years imprison
ment for participation in the Ryan ex
petition from Eaton to Punta Rosa, il
ls7l. kryke, a Pole by birth, was ,
citizen Of the United States, and distin
guished himself in the volunteer arm,
during the late war. For his partieipa.
ton IN the expedition against Cuba hl
was originally sentenced to death.
The Spanish Minister to-day, at tn,
instance Of his government, called OF
the President and congratulated him OF
his reelection President Grant was at.
tended by Secretary Fisk.
The Comptroller Of the Currency,
Knox, has returned from Boston. he
reports that the loans OF the banks o.
that city are eighty-seven millions; sur.
plus, twenty millions; and loss, only
one and a half millions He saws the
financial prospects, in view Of the facts
are cheerful, and business Is fast resum,
ing its usual channels.
7. B. Speer, convicted of forgery In
Philadelphia, and sentenced to three
years Imprisonment in March, 1871, has
been pardoned by the President.
The horse disease shows no signs OF
abatement. Several cases Of dropsy have
occurred.
At meeting Of citizens tonight, 8
committee was appointed to collect
funds in aid Of the Boston sufferers.
A delegation composed Of Judge
Laughndge, member of COngTess-elect
from Iowa; Senator Lewis, of Virginia;
and Representatives-elect Jamber Smith
and J. b. Sener, with other gentlemen,
called on the President to-day Ia order
70 lay before him the subject Of the COM
pletiOn of the James river and Kanawha
canal, for which government aid Is de-
sired. The value Of the proposed work
IN the interest Of cheap and eapsciOus
transportation Of produce west and to
the seabOard, and in connection with
the tender by the States of Virginia and
West Virginia of their interest TO the
government, and after a return OF the
expenditure for its completion that it be
made a highway free of all tolls, except
those necessary to keep il in repair, was
presented to the President, and will,
probably, at an early day, receive the
attention Of Congress. The President
expressed himself sensible Of the great
importance Of the work in its national
and after an informal inter-
change OF opinion the delegation with
drew, much gratified with their inter-
view.
A delegation Of Saes and Foxes, from
Missouri, accompanied by Indian Agent
LighJfOOt and an interpreter, arrived
here to-day. They came on to make
final arrangements for selling their pres
ent reservation, some sixteen thousand
acres, located in Nebraska and Kansas,
and removing thence TO their new reser-
walton in the Indian Territory.
Colonel BristOw to-day rendered his
resignation as Solicitor General, which
has been accepted, and the commission
Of Samuel NJ. Phillips, Of North Carroll
ma, VIII be made out tomorrow.
Researches Of the signal Office have
Just been rewarded by beautiful and
highly important meteorological discov-
cry on the coast of England. From
time lmmemOrial, the phenomenon OF
the great November atmospheric wave
has been the speculation OF scientists
and seamen, but Sir John Hersehell and
Others have supposed il was peculiar and
confined to England and Western En-
rope, which il reaches from the
South Atlantic, and over which
II rslls in long continued fluctuations
Tor October 70 January, constituting an
element in q phenomenal
character OF European winter. On the
twelfth Of November, a similar atmos-
pheric wave began to break over the
shores Of Oregon and British Columbia,
as shown by the weather kilograms. By
the evening Of the Jhirteenth il had
spread over nearly all Of the Pacific
States and the Territories Of L iah and
Nevada, and at midnight was pouring
through the passes OF the Rocky noun
tains. On Thursday, the fourteenth, Il
descended upon Colorado, Nebraska,
Kansas and Indian Territories. On Fri
day morning il extended in unbroken
and magnificence from Ore
gOn and Washington Territories east
ward through the great trough or de-
preston OF the Rocky mountain back
bone in Idaho and Montana, and
stretched thence to lower Missouri,
and lower Mississippi valley and over
the western shores Of the Mexican Gulf
This discovery viii enable the meteer-
OlOgist to anticipate, by many days, the
Of winter as ii advances from
the Pacific coast eastward in the
great current Of the westerly winds. IL
serves 10 clear up the old mystery Of
American winter storms, showing that
they originate in the Rocky mountains,
upon whose cold and lOftiest SUBMITS
in Nevada, Utah, Colorado and South
ern Wyoming the vapOr-iadened air OF
this wave, coming from over the warm
Pacific, is now seen 70 be condensed
into the overwhelming SHOWS Of the
parallel. As this vask aerial
wave Is probably like the English wave,
continued in successive uBdulatiOns for
two or three months, il may assist m
explaining the comparatively high tenn
perature and light precipitation in win
ter along Puget's sound and eastward.
A Sc ies of well-defined gold-bearing
veins have been discovered near Kelly's
Ford, Virginia, five miles from Kappa
hammock Station. The surface-TOck Of
quartz has from sixty 10
one hundred dollars per ton. Three
tunnels are now being worked through
lh' rich rock, and everything gives evil
deuce Of permanency.
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