Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-18
TELEGRAMS.

The Canadians want the British gov
eminent to nut in big claim against
the United States for Fenian damages.
Hamilton College, at Clinton, New
York. has been closed until the second
aOfMay, on account OF the presence Of
smallpox.
The Twentieth COnvOcatiOn Of the In
ternational Typographical Union viii
meet at Richmond, Virginia, on the
third day of June next 4AEa a4
Colonel Adds Hays, editor Of the Bur
lington New Jersey,) ERterprise, wrote
Yesterday to JAS Nj. Scovel I'm favor of
the Cincinnati Liberal Convention.
The revenue Of the Dominion from all
sources last year was nineteen million
dollars; expenditures, fifteen million
dollars The importations from the
United States amounted to twenty mine
million dollars.
Reverdy johnson says that the special
dispatch from Washington 10 New
York paper, giving him as authority
for the statement that the President re-
gFets that the claims for consequential
damages We're put in our case against
England, is entirely unauthorized.
To the Literal Republican movement
the latest recruits are Governor Palmer,
of Illinois; Hon. Newton Baleman, Su-
perintendent OF Public Instruction; Sec
retarv of Stale Rummell; Adiutant-Gen-
eraI Dilger; Hon. William L. Gross, and
hundreds of private citizens, The Lieu
tenant-CovernOr, Auditor and Treas
urer have not vet signified their inten-
tions as to their positions.
In the New York assembly, yesterday,
the House bill to give the majority of
the electors power TO decide whether
LIQUOR should be sold in any city or town
in that State, was passed by a vote of
.sixtv-seven TO forty-one. An effort was
made TO except lager-beer and ale, but
both were LOST. The vote was not
party one. Every Democrat and seven
teen Republicans voted against II.
A sleeping-coaeh became detached
from a train ON the Cairo Sh0Ttline rail-
road few DAYS since, and was run into
bv a freight train which was following.
The passengers In the detached coach
were notified of their perilOus situation
by the conductor, Mr.. Morgan, and they
only escaped by jumping from the win
dows. Many of them sustained slight
injuries in the attempt 70 escape, but
the result would have been fearful but
for the presence Of mind Of the conduc-
Tor.
Rev. Stuart Robinson, of Kentucky,
Yesterday commenced q suit against The
St. Louis DeBlOcrOf for libel in connect
ING his name with report that he had
been concerned during the war in dis
tribution in the North Of clothing in
fected with contagiOn, and lays his dam
ages at fifty thousand dollars. The
u . = haaA "a
report under misapprehensiOn, and re-
tracted the article next day, and subse-
olentlv printed the Chicago fOst's re-
fraction of the same in full. -
Governor Palmer yesterday published
a letter yesterday, giving the reasons
why he declined 10 be candidate forre-
noruinatiIn before the Republican State
Conventions He could not submit BIS
claims to that convention, because us
non1inees must necessarily be commit
ted to Grant. Governor falIner lakes
avcentioDs TO some measures of the ad-
ninistration, and opposes the re-n0mi-
nation of General Grant, who, he says,
mas NOT the inclination and ability to en-
force economy and reform in the gov
ernment.
= Milwaukee dispatch of yesterday
saws: " Mayor Harrison Ludlngton de-
Iivered his valedictOry this evening, and
the new Mayor d. q. Hacker, was duly
inaugurated. Mr.. Ludington's term OF
office has been one Of great activity anu
his name will be held in sacred reVer-
ence by all the sufferers OF the OCTOBER
fire.. Mr. Hacker was elected by both
Republicans and Democrats, and viii
only need the opportunity to make ms
fion a. famous as lyudlng-
TOMS. The Common Council, before II
adjourned, passed eulogistic resolutions
1ITsou the death Of Professor Morse.
Mrs. Mary Carroll was burned 70
death near POseyville, Indiana Hel
clothes took fire, when she ran to a vel
fifteen feet deep, and jumped in before
any one could get 10 her. When takei
out il was discovered that her body Wa
burned 10 a crisp.