Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-30

! States Senate from Louisiana, to sue
eeed Kellogg, tne present incumbent
VINO mas been elected, or declared rather
the Governor ff that State. Pinchback
relying upo5Tl his color, VIII be candi
date toEstk7e sana position. and states
3 tlat while he vii get the colored vot,
Z solid, he viii also receive enough white
y votes TO elect him.
Il The report Of the Chief Of the United
II States Engineer Corps shows the amount
! available for the improvement of the
/ RappahannOck river below Fredericks
4 burg, Virginia, for the present fiscal
I year 10 be eighteen thousand two hum
I dred and twenty-siX dollars and ten
1 cents. The amount required for the
I fiscal year ending June 20, 1874, is sixty
I Eve thousand dollars. II is proposed to
expend the appropriation Of fifteen thou
sand dollars of June 10, 1872, in extend
4 ing the channels already dredged and in
Building dykes.
Merchants in Berne, Switzerland,
have recently been shipping large guam
titles of salted beef and pork from New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and othel
/ American ports. Some Of these meats
have been represented to the Swiss
l Government as affected with triehina,
OF otherwise unfit for use, and the Swiss
authorities have in consequence ordered
] the Inspector General TO cause all I'M
ported meats to be carefully examined.
( and to collect a tax equal to one dollar
and twenty-five cents in United States
money, on each barrel, to pay for the
inspection.
/ Advices from Dennison, Texas, state
/ that the difficulties tnat existed among
the graders along the Kansas Central
road, have been adjusted. 1t appears
that the men had not been paid for sew
eral months, and they insisted that no
track should be laid until they received
their pay. Arrangements have now
been made to pay them, and the work
Of completing the line viii be prosecuted
with renewed yigor. The Central win
be completed to Dennison in a short
time. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
road, having already reached that point,
I will soon advance their lines to Camar-
go and Galveston.
A letter is published in the ColletOn
| (South Carolina) Gazette, purporting to
| have been written by Governor Moses
when he was Speaker of the House o.
| Representatives Of South Carolina, ad-
dressed to a coIored member ef that
! body who was chairman Of an important
committee, in which Moses begged for
the loan of one thousand dollars, prom
ising to return the money by aiding him
individually and officially. It is also
alleged THAI Moses, when Speaker,
issued one thousand dollars in pay GER
tifcates to members, on which it ap-
pears by his own statement he claimed
percentage. These certificates have
never been paid, and he now proposes,
as Governor, 20 redeem them at par by
means of deficiency tax.
1t is said that, in the Court of Assizes
at Rome, recently, gang of thieves in
trOduced themselves among q crowd as
sembled to hear a most exciting case.
During the arguments the attention of
everybody was attracted by bird which
flew in circles around the heads OF the
Judges, lawyers and prisoners. 1t was a
strstagem invented by the pickpockets,
who began to ply their trade furiously
the moment the bird was let loose. Pret-
ty soon there was a general cry of "pick-
pockets but the watches, purses and
handkerchiefs were gone, and, doubt
less, the hght-fngered gentry were
shouting as Indignantly as anybody
else. In these holiday times, when
crowded places of amusement are the
rule, exits care against pickpockets may
well be taken
The LAGOON Is lhat wonderful group
of statuary described by Pliny as the
work of tsree eminent serllptors. He
SAYS. 'The fame of many sosslDtors is
less diffused because the number en-
plOyed upon great works prevented their
celebrity; for there is no one artist to re-
ceive the honor of the work, and where
there are more than one they cannot all
obtaiL an equal fame. OF this the Lao
coon is an example, which stands in
the palace of the Emporer Titus, work
which may be considered superior to all
others both in painting and statuary.
The whole group, the father, the boys,
and the awful folds of the serpents, wepa
formed out OF q single block, in acces. 20
anee with a vote of the Senate, ksS 4 oe.
sander, POlydOrls and AthSenodo-IIs,
Rhodian sculptors ot5t.55Ie highest cIass. j