Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-13

steamer California arrived tonight from
| Sitka, and confirms the new and recent
discovery of rich gold fields in Cassain
county. She brought down twelve
miners and fifteen thousand dollars in
dust. The excitement is intense. One
party took out one hundred and ninety
seven dollars in eight hours rocking.
The parties who came down on the Cali
fornia intend returning early in the
spring. The miners wintering on the
Sticken have bought up all the provi-
siOns, so that large supply viii be re-
uuired in the spring.
The weather here for the last four days
past has been a succession OF heavy
storms.
The Ohio Falls Car Company.
LOUISVILLE, November 12.-The
creditors of the Ohio Falls ear company
met to-day and received the statement
of the affairs of the company, showing
the assets to be 81, 500, 600, liabilities
about S450, 900, and appointed COM
mittee to examine the statement and
visit the works of the company in JEFF |
fersonyille, Indiana. This evening the |
committe reported a settlement which |
was accepted by the creditors, being |
the extension of the Indebtedness
twelve, eighteen, twenty-fOur, thirty, |
thirty-six, forty-two and forty-eight |
months. The agreement was readily |
signed in a few days. The car works |
will be in full blast after a suspension of
some weeks and Will furnish en-
plOyment TO seven hundred men. |
Chief MeDOnOugh not GutIsy-steam. |
boat Burned-The Western River Im- 4
prOvememt Committee
I Iors Tho fasvv
in the case of Camavay against Chief |
Of-Police McDonough, for oppression in |
office, after having been confined over
twenty hours, rendered a verdict of "nOt
guilty"
The steamer New Boston, used by |
Judge Busby for rendering dead ami |
mails, burned late last night while lay
ing at the lower part of the city. Loss |
about twenty thousand dollars. Insur- |
ance small.
The central committee, appointed by /
the board of directors of the merchants |
exchange Monday to lay before con- |
gress the requirements of the people of
the Mississippi valley in any improve
ment on their water-cOurses, have or
ganized by electing Web. NJ. Samuels |
secretary. The latter gentleman will
Immediately open correspondence /
with the boards of trade and chambers |
of commerce of the principal cities of /
the Mississippi valley, soliciting the ap- |
pointment of committees to cooperate |
with the central committee, and will |
also collect information bearing on the |
subject and prepare a suitable memo
rial to be presented to congress at an
early day.
The French Situation.
PARIS, November 12.-In the assem- |
bly, to day a motion was offered by the |
government postpOning the debate upon |
NJ. Leon, and says Interpolation re- |
garding the failure to order elections TO |
dill vacancies in the assembly until the /
day following that upon which vote |
was taken upon the pIOlOngation of i
President MacMahon's powers. After |
a heated debate the motion was adopted |
for the pTolOngation of the powers of the |
president. The right, headed by NJ. |
de Remusat, to-day had an interview |
with President MacMahon. The latter /
stated that he had nothing 10 say modi- |
flying in any way the language of his /
message to the assembly, and request |
ed them to hasten their labOrs in the |
best interests of the country. He said |
that the questions relating to the dis |
cussion of constitutional bills, belonged |
solely to the assembly, though he ac-
knOwledged that the adoption of the |
bill would give stability to the govern |
ment.
The committee on prOlongation have |
adopted the proposal of NJ. Cassimer
PerTier that the law prOlOnging the
powers OF President MacMahon for five |
years beyond the duration of the present !
assembly, became a part of the cOnstitu- |
ton after constitutional bills are voted
upon.
Latest from Hong Kong and Yokohama.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 12.-The
steamer Japan, from Hong Kong and
Yokohama October 2lst, has on board
Colonel Sheppard, United States consul
at Yokohama, as a passenger, who
comes on leave of absence of six
months. ambassador SlidO still
lies in precariOus condition.
The revision of the treaty is
postponed in hopes that he may re-
cover. Business in Yokohama is i'm
proved and still improving. In the
month of October Delong paid his last
visit to the emperor and introduced his
successor, Bingham. The empress of
Japan paid a visit in state to Yokohama
Oh the lbutu vi OCtODeIs Ou tIe ulHlu
Of October the emperor went in state
to open polytechnic school at Taxi,
where he read a speech which
was translated, and D. Murray, chief
foreign officer, replied. Chemical and
physical experiments were made in the
presence of the emperor, also a gymnas-
tic exhibition was given before him, for
all OF which his majesty returned
thanks. After the exhibition, all sat
down to a collation.. The students re-
Gently arrived at Otokai number thirty
thousand. The emperOr's address to
Delong on the occasion, and his fare
well, was most cordial and flattering.
His majesty also presented him with
two magnificent, costly vases as a token
of his esteem. Delong afterward en-
tertained him on the United States
steamer Lackawanna.