Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-12

The Portland Canal and the Cincinnati
Southern Railway Coastitu-
ti0BaI COnEeBiiOn-Eric In
FestIgation.
Victor Emanuel win Visit Vienna The
French War Indemniiy-Califerni
Turf MatteFs-Spahish News.
General Canby's Views on the MOdOs
Observation-Disclosures in Panama
President Mara a Prisoner.


D victor Emanuel AZ Vienna.
r ROME, April Il.-Victor Emanuel
will visit Vienna duringthe exposition
4 If the condition of italy will permit his
departure.
THE Official COHnt az Cincianati.
> CINCINNATI, April 1.-THE official
count of the county returns to-day gives
Heron Republican, fifty-nine majority
: over Wright liberal Republican, for
! ! delegate to the constitutional conven-
! ton.
SAX Francisco, April 1l.-Mueh in
terest is manifested in the race to-mOT-
row between Oakland, Al TX and Elmo.
! The latter is the fava ire Pools are
! selling as follows: E.uao, thirty-tive;
Ajax, seventeen and "a haif.
The French War Ind IA atty.
PARIS, April 1l.-Up to the Fifth in
: stant, four billion two hundred and
! twenty-five million francs had been
, paid by France TO Germany, on account
, of the war indemnity for the subsistence
Of German troops, etc.
Revolution in Panama.
AsPINWALL, ria HAVANA, April II.
: 4 revolution has broken out in Panama
= in favor of EX-PresidenC COTressa.
President Mara is prisoner. 1t is said
|. he secretly sustains the TeyolutiOnists,
/. who are in possession Of everything. No
lives were lost. COTressa is expected at
! Panama on the fourteenth instant.
The Erie investigation,
ALBANY, \. y, April 11.-Senator
Madden, before the Erie investigation
committee this morning, testified that
the one thousand dollars he received
from the Erie company in 1865 was
handed him for lawyer named Little
Madden was not q senator then. In
1871, when he was u candidate for sena-
tor, Gould sent him four thousand dol
lars for election expenses, and these two
sums were all the money he ever receiv-
ed from the company.
The Ohio Constitutional COBgeBtiO
COLUMBUS, April 1.-THE latest
figuring in the constitutional con
vention show the following result
Regular Republicans elected, ten: Inde-
pendent Republicans, thiriy-fOur; regu-
lar Democrats, outside Of Hamilton
/ county, forty-tWO; in Hamilton county
five Democrats and ten Liberal RepubIi-
cans, and four candidates elected whose
names were on both tickets. Both
Democrats and Republicans claim the
convention, but until the official returns
are received, it is impossible to know
which party have 4 majority in the
! convention.
CarIists RepuIsed.
PARIS, April ia dispatch from
Penhiguan says that the Carlists had
been Tepulsed after fighting a whole day
and night before RnceTda.
PERPIGNAN, April IA dispatch
from Purgcerda, dated at noon to-day,
says: "After the failure Of their final
attack last Dight, the entire CsFlist force
Withdrew before daylight, leaving three
! hundred dead and wounded on the field. /
We lost eight killed and have many
wounded Five houses were fred by [
the enemies shells and destroyed. Ire |
cautions are taken against the renewal /
of the SIEGE
MADRID, April ll.-Owipg to the in- |
terruptiOn of trains by insurgents on the |
upper section Of the northern railway, I
| the government has granted a tempo I
rary concession to the company, author /
izing it to establish a line of steamers
from SAINT Andre to Bayonne, for the /
transportation of passengers to and from /
France.
Big Money" Schemes.
LOUISVILLE, April 11.-Messrs. Ben
jamin EgglestOn and Theodore Cook,
a committee from the Cincinnati cham
Der Of commerce, held an interview this
morning with the directors of the Louis
vile and Portland canal to ascertain the
views of the directory with reference to
the surrender of the canal to the govern
ment. The directors expressed them
selves willing and desirous to surrender
the canal whenever the secretary of the
treasury shall comply with the terms Of
the acts of the Kentucky legislature and
congress. The interview was entirely
satisfactory to the committee.
Messrs. Theodore StanwOOd and G.. 2.
Griffith, cashiers, respectively of the
First and Third national banks Of Gin
cinnati, are here in consultation with
some of our bankers, and it is rumored
they are in the interest Of the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad Their business
is to ascertain if the ten millions of gold
can be placed here.
Prom HaIifax.
HALIFAX, April 1.-THE customs
authorities are now satisfied that the
story of silk being found in crockery-
crates is untrue. The brig D. w. Hen
nessey has been chartered to take to
New York the goods already recovered
from the wreck. A large schooner, sent !
by the Coast wrecking company for the
same purpose, was at Liverpool, Nova /
Scotia, yesterday, and will reach Pros
pect tonight. To-day the sea was so
rough that not much work could be
done at the wreck. One of the New
York divers went down and attempted ,
to reach the cabin, but owing TO the un- /,
dertow had to desist, and will try again
tomorrow. No bodies were recovered
to-day. Powder was sent to the wreck, :
and will be employed in blowing holes
tomorrow.
A meeting of the friends of the lost
cabin passengers of the Atlantic was
held o,night, at which resolutions were
passed condemning the White Star line :
for not taking more vigorous J
measures TO recover the bodies.
Washington Items. N
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE presi- /
dent to-day appointed RutherfoTe h.
Hays assistanJ-treasure of the United s
States at Cincinnati, under the fifth sec c
ton of an act approved March 3, 1873. e
The cabinet session to-day was Of two {
hours duration, and no subject of mu- {
sual import was under consideration. v
The pQstmaster-generaI and Secretaries d
and Belkhap were absent. 4
Generals Sherman and Mcdowell had y
an interview with the president this e
General Mcdowell, who n
the military division of s
the south, has been for several +,
months on an inspecting tour in o
bis division, with the view Of making Z
such changes of posts and concentration 81
Of troops as will secure greater economy S,
in expenditures. He viii leave for his Fl
headquarters at Louisville in few DAYS. h
The commissioner Of patents has q
granted an extension of the first and I
third divisions, and refused to extend V
the second division of the patent of d
Samuel Ray and NJ. r. Shattoes, of AL 81
lance, Ohio, for harvesters. d
The President re-appointed to-day the h
postmasters, whose commits O
sions were about to expire: Robert e
Greenfield; John NJ. Bar il
,ere, Hillsboro, Ohio; J. G. Stark G,
weather, Ocononoawoc, Wisconsin, and q
Charles FTans, KenosAa, Wisconsin. le
The President also appointed John II
Mahon postmaster at Muscatine, Iowa, cI
nee Richard w. Brent, whose commits N
ion expires on April 18th. 8,
senerai Candy on the AfOdOe Situation. S
WASHINGTON, April IA telegram =
rom General Candy, dated Tule Lake, =.
colorado, April seventh, and forwarded
" the courier TO Yereka, California, and
eeeived by General Sherman, in which
General Candy states he had seen the
Instructions sent to the peace commits
s~-,<,. - the ooorofa,xr Of Tho