Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-26

of Mayor A. Oakley Hall to the county
warrant for furnishing stationary etc. ,tC
the Office Ofreceiver of taxes. They Were
each bailed in five thousand dollars.
Phineas G. Kingsland is charged with
the forging of three bills on the Broad
way national bank: one for So, ,9S2, an
other for S25, ,663, and the remaining one
for S33, ,06S, on the fourteenth of Janua-
ry, 1871. The bills were purported to be
signed by Richard Connolly, comptroll-
er, and countersigned by Oakley Hail
and Joseph B. Young, clerk Of the board
of supervisors.
The Russian Raid Oa KhIva.
LONDON, June 25.-The Daily Meas
has the following late intelligence OF
the progress of the expedition against
Khiva: 1.-The united Orenberg and
Mangyshlak columns, on the second in
stant, captured Kilaia, only, three days
march from Khiva. GeTeral Kauff-
man, with the Taskkend holumn, had
arrived at Chraki. about tie same dis
tance east OF Khiga."
A special dispatch to the London
Times says: The Tchikshlar deJach-
ment has returned to Krasnorodsk,
having been completely used up by heat
and want of water. The khan of Box
hara hadl acted in the most friendly
manner toward the Russians." or
More Indian Treachery.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-The Indian
bureau to-day received from the war
department an official letter from Lieu
tenant-Colonei John R. Brooks, COM
manding at Camp Supply, in which he
states that the Cheyenne and Kfowa
Indians are off the reservation. This
letter is transmitted by Major General
Pope to Lieutenant-GeneTal Sheridan,
who indorsed it and respectfully for
warded it for the information of the
general of the army and Indian bureau.
General Sherman indorses the letter as
follows:
| HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
/ WAsnINGToN, DUNE II, 1873.
Respectfully submitted to the secretary Of
These are the Indians to conciliate
whom Santanta and Big-Tree are to be
turned loose. / have no more faith in
their sincerity than | have in praiIi =
wolves; and, as l once risked my life To
test their sincerity, l do not propose to
again expose others to like danger,
and l hope the Indian bureau will man
age them without the aid of the army.
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Senator West ON the Louisiana Situation
WAsHINGToNC CITY, June Ex-senator
| West, of Louisiana, has written letter
on the political situation in that State,
in which he says: ''The future saliva
ton of Louisiana and her emancipation
| from disorder, debt and disgrace, the
| progress of her material interests and
| her restoration to her former greatness
| nd cff I'D rr-fII
effected by needed reforms, which may
be furthered by the unification of ali who
| profess Republican principles, and
can only be jeOpar6ized by distraction
among those who entertain them" He
| thinks no new election will be
! ordered in Louisiana by congress. Still
| further advancement rests with the
I adoption by the citizens of the prin-
| ciple Of equality, right aud justice TO all,
regardless of color; in the laying aside Of
prejudice, and in the admission that all
vices do not pertain to one race nor all
virtues to the other. He opposed the
Beauregard movement because, among
! other reasons, it proposes the creation
| of new party, whereas the needed re-
forms may be effected in the unification
of all who profess Republican prinei
pies.
Preparations for the MOdOe Court IIar-
fiaI.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.-The fol-
lowing dispatch has been received
dated YIeka, California, June 25th:
Colonel Elliott, of the first cavalry,
and Major Curtis, judge advocate, ar
rived here last night, and will proceed
TO Fort Klamath this evening. Colonel
Elliott will be the senior officer on the
military commission to try the Modoc5,
as Colonel Robert Granger, of the twen-
ty-first infantry, has been excused on
account of illness. The commission
will probably not work until after the
fourth of July. tits thought it will take
about six weeks to conclude its labors.
In the meantime it is probable that
Colonel Mason's battalion OF the twen-
ty-first infantry, with Captain Miller's
battery of the fourth artillery, will
march to Vancouver's, Uid Camps War
ner and Harvey, and Fort Walla- Walla
Colonel Mendenhall, with the rest of
the artillery companies, will probably
return to San Francisco, Vi0 Fort Crook
HasbrOck's light battery and two COM
panits of the twelfth infantry. will re-
main at Klamath until the Modocs are
disposed of.
The Bible in Public SchOOls-Suniay
Traffic in Liquor, etc.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, June 24-In the
supreme court to-day it was unanimous
ly decided that the constitution of Ohio
does not enjoin or require religious in
struction, or the reading of religious
books in the public schools of the State.
The legislature having placed the man
agement of public schools under the
irrn Of a
and boards of education, the courts
have no rightful authority to interfere
by directing what instruction shall be
given, or what books shall be read
therein.
In the constitutional convention this
afternoon proposition to so amend the
constitution as to prohibit the legisla-
ture from passing any usury laws, was
indefinitely postponed.
Judge Greene, of the common pleas
court, to-day decided that so much of
the Sunday ordinance as affixed penal
ties for keeping open saloons for the sale
of spirituous liquors on Sunday is valid,
and so much thereof as affixed penalties
for keeping open on that day a saloon or
other place for the purpose of selling
Ohio wine, cider, beer, porter, ale, soda
water, cOnfectioneries, or pastry, and for
the sale thereof, is held to be void.
official Report of the wheat Crop.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-The follow
ing is the official report of the wheat
crop: Winter wheat is mostly harvest |
ed. OF 753 counties from which reports
have been received, 202 are above the
average, l6S the average, and S8l below
the average, OF 800 counties reporting
spring wheat, 10S are above the average,
lis the average, and 6S below the aver
age. The acreage of winter wheat is
somewhat increased, though in many
fields the winter wheat was killed and
plOwed up for spring wheat and other
crops. The acreage offspring wheat is very
largely increased, and, especially in the
northwest, is unusually promising. The
Indications of the crop of 1873 are con-
sidered at least equal to those of June,
1872, when the department estimated
the prospective crop at 22O, ,000, 600 bush
els. Subsequent conditions of growth |
raised the first estimate of the year in
the annual report of 1872, not yet pub
Used, to 249, 1877 ,020 bushels. With
equally favorable conditions the yield
may be safely set down at $50 ,00O, 900
bushels. Insect rayages, however, are
reported in spring wheat, indicating Sc
rious loss in some localities. An in-
creased acreage and an improved yield
of oats are indicated in the
majority of States. The maximum
condition of 1l3 is found in Virginia,
and the minimum of SO in California. |
Rye, in twenty-four States, is reported
an increased, and in ten States de-
creased acreage. Winter rye, sixteen
States report the condition above the