Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-21
NEW YORK.
General synopsis Of the Days DOings-
Incidents and Accidents, Crimi.
nal and General.

NEW York, October Civilian
/ Cullen Bryant will deliver an Grafton at
1 the uuveiling of the Walter Scott monu-
ment, Central Park, on Saturday next.
The Consul OF Sweden and Norway
/ invites subjects residing in this city and
neighbOrhood to record their oath Of
/ allegiance to King Oscar II.
Judge Swayne, of the United States
/ Supreme Court, and Prince Higoskee
/ Fusimi Igami Yamadas and Others are
/ passengers on the steamship Baltic,
from Liverpool.
By the breaking Of a gangway yester-
I day, fifty-four seamen of the United
States steamer Hartford, were precipita-
/ ted into the water. All were rescued,
but some were severely bruised.
Admiral Dupenne De Saint Andre, of
the French war steamer Minerva, Wis
tied the Navy Yard yesterday, and
invited the officers of the station to a re-
/ eeption on the Minerva Monday.
AT the Senatorial investigation of
frauds in the construction OF Heartman
courthouse, evidence has been given
that the material for the courthouse was
carted direct from the barge TO Senator
Genet's house, then constructing.
Senor Mayerga pronOunces as false
the claim of Colonel Ryan that he has
authority from Ramon, Cespedes and
Mayerga to organize an expedition for
the benefit of Cuba.
At the regatta of the New York Canoe
Club yesterday, ten miles, was won by
the Gulchen in one hour, fourteen min
utes and sixteen seconds.
The London Times has the following:
"COunt Andrassy has delivered a sig
nificant speech to the Austrian delega-
ton. While echoing the pacific decla-
tons which sounded so irOnical at Paris
and Berlin, he allows them only a tenn
pOrary value. The background, he says,
does not open the prospect of a lasting
peace, Notwithstanding the Imperial fra
ternity and good understanding among
statesmen. He holds that Austria will
not be safe till she can trust in her own
strength.
"There is considerable discrepancy in
the option statistics of NJ. About and
those officially published at Strasbourg.
NJ. About estimates the total number
who have signified their intention, OF at
least wish, to remain Frenchmen at
something over one hundred thousand.
The actual registration in Alsace and
Lorraine amounts to only one hundred
anu E4AAN -lbAAl AAOuodnl 1lltA Ht8AN
not a fourth having validated of their [
own option by emigrating."
By no means gratifying is the light
shed upon the accounts Of the MetropOl- |
itan railroad by the committee of in
vestigation appointed last August Du- /
biOus transactions have been engaged in I
by the management, injudiciOus OUTLAWS .
of capital have been perpetrated, and .
the dividends paid have been four hun |
dred thousands dollars in excess Of the 1
actual net earnings of the line.
A special from Havana SAYS that Mr.. |
Henderson, the American arrested by .
the Cuban authorities on suspicion OF .
being in league with the insurgents, has
been released by order of the Captain
General.
The London Times has the following
regarding the fire at the Escurial:
According to a statement made by the
Minister of Finance to the CoTtes yester-
day afternoon, the actual damage is less
than at first supposed. Not a book,
manuscript or a picture has been in-
jured. The church and the palace, with
their priceless contents, were untouched.
The principal fear was for the ceiling of
the library, with its magnificent fres-
Goes, the work Of PeregTin, Tibaldi and
Bartoleme Corducci. These works of art
which represent Philosophy, Gram
mar, Rhetoric, Music, Astronomy,
Dialectics, Arithmetic and Theology
appear to the beholder's eyes as
fresh and brilliant as when their
colors wereifirst laid on, more than three
hundred years ago. Fortunately they
are intact, and neither fire or water has
damaged them. Fears, however, still
exist that in consequence Of the i'm
mense weight of rubbish above it the
whole ceiling may fail; but as the work
of clearing away this rubbish has COM
menced and is being carried on with
extreme care, it is to be hoped no further
will be done. So far as can at I
present be calculated it will cost forty
thousand dollars to repair the building.
The idea Of a national subscription was
started, but His Majesty has knscked
it on the head by insisting on defraying
the whole cost out of his own private
purse.
Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock,
Constable of Lower London and a dis
East Indian officer, died in
London on the sixth instant at an
advanced are