Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-10

ultimate decision, but at the same time
the desires for peace which they accent
as the only true mode of adjusting the
difficulty, should they eolIrteOusly refuse
TO present these unreasonable and aggTa.
| waiting claims.
The fiity-sixth anniversary of the
! American Bible Society was held to-
day. Rev. Luke II. Wiseman, a dele
gate from heIBritish and Foreign,Socie-
| ty, after abiding To the relations exist
ing between his society and the one in
this country referred TO the Alabama
/ claims, which he affirmed would ulti-
mately be amicably settled between the
/ two countries. For himself he could say
! from what he knew and had seen, that
the people of England desired nothing
more than a close alliance with the peO-
pie of America. The speaker concluded
with a very earnest eulogy on the Amer
! lean Bible Society and the people of
America. Father GavisseiT was also a
! speaker.
The Tribune this morning, comment
/ ing on the position Of the British Gov
ernment in relation to indirect claims,
and the probable failure Of the WASH
I ington Treaty, says: "Our claims were
clumsily presented, and afterward oyer
tures were made TO withdraw them, and
were, 10 the last degree, undignified and
maladrOit. That we are not completely
discredited and dishOnOred in our own
eyes, is due not 50 much to our State
Department, rs TO the stiff, persistent
obstinacy of the British Government.
If they had accepted the humble over
lures we made, in the sense in which
they were eDtreated, we should have
had no means of escape from the trap
into which we were walking; but an
effort to gain still more from us, will
probably end in the failure of the treaty,
and this we can bear with far
greater equanimity than would have
been necessary 10 suppose the uncOnsti-
tutiOnal surrender, in the face of mere
clustering, of all that we have claimed
for the last ten years"
The fire at 5. D. Tompkins q Co.'s
warehouse, No. % West street, has APP
parently been burning all night. The
building contained twenty-five hundred
bales of cotton, owned by r. b. Forsyth,
Thomas ID. Benton, Inman, Swan d Co.
and r. l.. Maitland d Co. The fire is
still burning, though confined to its
original location. The tobacco and
other merchandise stored I'm the adjOin-
ing building was considerably damaged
by the immense quantity Of water used.
Three hundred and fifty bales of cot
ton were destroyed by the fire. All the
rest in the building was thoroughly
drenched, the loss being forty to fifty
per cent. per bale. The cotton in ques-
ton was owned by r. B. FOrsythe, T.
b. Benton, Inman, Swami d Co., and
r. L. Maitland & Co., all believed to be
insured. S. ID. ThOmplins d Co. have
only insurance on general merchandise
of $1,000. Besides the cOttOn there was
a large quantity of gOain, tobacco, etc,
on the upper floors of Nos. 81, 90 and SO
West street, all damaged considerably
by the fire and water. The buildings
owned by J. b. Beam are damaged to
the amount Of about SIS, 900. TheI osses
foot up: Cotton, SIS, 900; buildings, S1S,-
600; other goods, S25, 900; other firms at
81, 90 and 90 West, and l4O Cedar street,
$1,000; total, S122, 900. go