Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-18
Vice President Wilson on. the MOdOcs-
Provisions against Further Trouble
with the GaSmen.
The Brooklyn Union in Couple Of Libel
Suits-Sad Incident in COEnec-
tion with the Ill-Fated
Atlantic.
Arrest Of a National Bank FOrger and
Defrauder-PeTsiStenc of the
Striking Gasmen n-Nis-
cellaneOus.

NEW YORK, April l7.-At conyen-
ton OF advertising agents resolutions
were referred TO a committee, reciting
that agents shall ignore, as far as pos
sibly compatible with the interests of
advertisers, papers which do not recog-
nize the right of agents to commissions;
also, that advertising agents shall ignore,
as far as possible, publishers who osten-
sibly recognize the right of agents to
commissions, but allow commissions to
the advertisers themselves. Another
resolution condemns the taking by
agents of immoral advertisements.
Aspecial agent from Jaynes, it is said,
intends TO publish the facts relating to
the government prosecution in the
Phelps, Dodge d Co.'s case. 1t now
turns out there was no foundation what
ever for the report made to the treasury
department, that the goods consigned
to Fort Gibson were under-valued and
smuggled out of cars within the terri
tory Of the United States, upon which
report one hundred and forty-one pack
ages were seized by the New York Gus
tomhouse. The treasury department
proposes to inquire into the motive of
its Specials at New York in making the
report, and the American agents OF the
Hudson Bay company, Austin, Bald
win 4 Co., will inquire into the legality
Of the seizure.
Colonel Whitley states that one Of
his officers has arrested, in Washington,
man styling himself Rev. J. Hale
Barney and one Sutton, printer, for
sWindling government officers in the
name of the President. The prisoners
are said to be the authors of circular,
- fa
tive mansion, and bearing the forged
signature of General BabcOck, request
ing contributions for suppressing the
election frauds and to reimburse the
treasury for money lent in election pur-
poses. 1t is understood the President
intends to remove the Office-holders who
contributed.
Vice President Wilson said that peace
with the Modocs was now out of the
question and that they should be exter-
minated at any cost, still the peace pol
lev should not be abandoned IN dealing
with other Indian tribes.
A police force is stationed inside the
New York gas-works, to prevent the
strikers from gaining an entrance and
destroying property.
Thomas w. Field, superintendent of
the public schools of Brooklyn, has
brought suit against the Brooklyn
Union for one hundred thousand dollars,
! for alleged libel in the intimation in an
editorial that the plaintiff secured his
election as superintendent in a shameful
and dishonOrable manner, through the
! influence of Thomas Kinsella. Certain
statements in the same paper respecting
Mrs. Field will, il is said, form the
| basis of another libel-suit
The different parts OF the grand army
Of the republic, in this city, will send
delegates TO a meeting to be held on
| April 22d, to make arrangements for
the decoration of the soldiers graves on
May 4th.
Among the passengers booked for the
| Inflated steamer Atlantic, was an aged
lady named Mrs. Elderwald, of Phiia-
delphia, and her daughter. Through
some accident the mother was detained
in London, while the daughter, anxious
10 reiOin her husband and children,
would not be delayed, and embarked on
the Atlantic and was lost. Mrs. Elder.
wald sailed on the Frisia, expecting tC
meet her daughter here, but on arriving
learned the daughters fate. The SHOCK
nrostrated the mother 50 that she now
4 lies i'm a precarious condition.
/ A New Orleans special states tha
limited States troops left yesterday fol
4 Grant parish, and VIII be stationed
along the banks of the river to preven
further trouble.
One of the gas strikers was to-day sen
to the penitentiary for assaulting a work
man.
jaw Gould has been subpened to testi
fy on the usury question betore thegran'
jury.
Arrived Steamships Schmidt, Bre
men and Saxonia, from Hamburg.
The gas men on a strike held meet
I ing last night, at which addresses wer
made counselling perseverance. In
estimated cost of the strike to the mel
now out of employment has been elgh
e thousand dsllars, but the funds OF til
a society are still represented to be in
q fiOurisbing condition.
= George ID. Emerson, formerly leath
a er-dealer in Boston, was arrested her
0 to-day, charged with defrauding Nav
G erick, and others of the national banks
{ out of fifteen thousand dollars, b
j. means OF notes with forged indOrse
# ments.
r George Phriiilin, on trial for the mul
i der Of his wife, refused the request {
Y his counsel to plead guilty of man
!, slaughter IN the second degree. and teS
k tim0ny is now being taken i0r the d'
d Tense.