Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-17


OF Don Carlos's army.
A letter from Havana, dated October
10th, says there is a report afoat OF a defalea-
ton to the amount of a million dollars in the
Havana customhouse.
| Don Carlos has returned to Tolosa.
! Reports continue 10 be received of defeat of
the Carlists and of the arrival OF insurgents
in government camps
H. Emanuel d CO., of Montreal, the
| largest importers Of cigars in the dominion Of
Canada, have suspended. Their Liabilities are
four hundred thousand dollars.
Marchette's opera of Ruy Bias was
performed by Strakosch's troupe in NewYork
| Wednesday night, for tine first time In Amer
lea, and was most favorably received.
The society of the Plymouth Congre-
| gational in Milwaukee yesterday evening re-
| eept the resignation Of Rev. ]. L. Dudley.
Rev. Henry c. Montgomery, DID,,
| rector of the Church of Incarnation, and for
merly OF Philadelphia, dropped dead at his
residence in New York yesterday morning.
Dispatches from MOntevideO state that
AYailRneda has been installed as president OF
| the Argentine Republic, and that the govern
ment seizes all telegrams received at Buenos
Ayres.
A corner in oats failed in New York
yesterday, and the cornerers came to grief by
the suspension OF one OF the firms engaged in
the sch me, and fearful weakening Of sew
eral others.
Attorney General Williams received
the gratifying intelligence from Alabama
yesterday that forty-Lwo additional arrests
had been made in Sumter county in the al
legged kuklux cases.
Harrison LudingtOn, mayor of Mil
wsukee, has accepted call, signed without
respect 70 party, 20 run Tor congress in the
fourth iscOnsin district. The Republicans
viii make no nomination.
The trial of Rev. T. A. Goodwin, of
the Methodist Episcopal church, Of Indisnap
oils, indiana, for heresy, has b5en set Tor tue
twenty second instant, at the Meridian street
church, kew. DIR. Naigior to preside.
Captain Simonds, OF the ship Kings
bridge, which sunk n the British channel,
after coming in collision with the snip Cam
dahar, together with his wife and daughter,
were drowned. They were Americans.
The French consul-general at the port
his nationality, under twenty years OF age, 10
register al he general consulate in conform
ity with circular Of the French ministry, in
regard TO military service.
The steamship Australian cleared
from Galveston for Liverpool yesterday, with
5535 bales of cottoa and 81 hCgSB leads OF tai
low; aggregate weight, 100000 pounds; val
ued at $4,000; the largest and most valuable
cargo ever shipped from that port.
The board Of trustees of the Peabody
educational fund are in session in New York.
The board Will consider the necessities Of each
state, and distribute the money in their
meet the wishes. OF the late Mr.. Peabody.
General Chausey and B0arbaki have
been summoned to consult with President
MacMahon, it is supposed TO prepare for the
the note OF the Spanish government relative
to the conduct OF France IN favor OF the Carl 1
lists.
A lady clerk in the patent-office in
Washington, in an interview with Assistant |
Secretary Cowan, assumed the entire respon-
sibiiity of gathering subscriptions from
clerks and others in that office TO purchase a
tea-set for presentation 10 retiring Commits |
sioner Leggett.
Adispateh from Fort Garry announces
that declaration OF outlawry has been issued |
by the court of the queens bench in Mani !
toba against Lewis Riel. This action disposes
a fugitive from just ce, and Of any claim he
might make 70 SIT unmolested in the house OF
commons.
The notice heretofore given by Secre-
tsry BristOw that it was his intention TO re-
move one Of any two OF family in the EN-
ploy OF the treasury department was, in a
measure, put into execution yesterday by no. |
tncatfons sent to twenty five clerks that their
services would be no longer required after the |
first proximo.
A London dispatch says that the COM |
pensatlon paid England by the Madrid gov |
eminent amounts to seventy-fYe thousand |
dollars, forty thousand Of which is paid on |
account Of the Nirgtnius butchery, and the |
remainder covers outstanding claims. Eng |
lanu MOQlQ MOI IeEO8ulLG the pI0ccDE kDNtEn-
ment until all claims were admitted.
The Evangelical education society |
commenced its annual session in New York, |
yesterday, with the bishop OF Nevada presid- |
ing The officers elected for the ensuing year |
were: Hon. Felix 4. BrunOt, president; VIII |
liam c. Houston, treasurer and Rev. R. c. |
Matlock. secretary. The treasurers and sec |
retary's reports showed the society was in a |
prosperous condition.
Z, B. Williams, aged TWENTY-FIVE !
a ma rb far = his fhrnaf /
with a razor in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday, |
while laboring under an attack Of de fTfttnl |
treBeHs. He eau hardly survive. Williams |
has been finely educated, being graduate of |
a prominent western college, but has for sew |
eral yea been addicted to spreeing. His pa |
rents reside in Newark, Ohio.
Dispatches from Buenos Ayres yester- !
day state that a new cabinet has been formed, |
with Alsina, minister OF war; Frias, minister |
of foreign affairs; COnstines, minister Of
instruction. General Mftre is near Buenos |
Ayres with ten thousand men, and great anx- |
iety prevails A revolt of the government
troops in favor of Mitre is Rpprehended.
There were two indictments brought |
in by the grand jury at salt Lake, yesterday, |
for lascivious conabition, and it is generally |
believed they were against Brigham Young |
and Geo. r. Cannon, laIe delegate to congress. |
No suits have been made, however, and the |
clerk OF the court states tuat no person is au- |
thorized 10 give any information 10 regard 70 |
IL. 1t Is Known, however, that evidence in re- |
gard to these parties was being taken by the |
grand jury.
4. Salt Lake telegram says that the
grand iury were lectured yesterday morning I
as TO secresy, and threatened with punish |
their proceedings This was no doubt called |
forth by the fact that officers had been hunt |
ing for the wives of George 2. Cannon as wit |
nesses, but found his residence locked and |
every one absent. II is stated that George has |
also Rbsented himself TO escape the United |
States marshal.
At meeting of the directors Of the |
Western Union telegraph company in New
York yesterday, the following officers were
elected: President, William OrtOn; vice |
preside nts, A. b. Cornell, Augustus Schell, G.
Il. Aumford, Norvin Gr en-, harri son Durkee
executive committee, William Orton, James
H Banker, A. B. Cornell, Harrison Durkeel |
NOrvin Green, Joseph Harker, Edwin D, Nor
gan, Augustus Schen, ". h. Thorn, G. Van
derbilt, Frank Work.
The Manhattan club of New York is
the city and state OF New York, and the place
where prominent Democrats Of the Union
may be found when In the great metropolis
At a smeeting held last Thursday evening,
Hon August Belmont was elected president
John 7. Agnew, woe PRESIDENT m. Butler
Duncan (nf the banking firm OF Duncan,
sherman & Coz, treasurer; and MantOn Mar
BILE, OF the New York World, secretary, These
ofacers represent the combined influence of
money, brains and character
The acting-sscTetary OF the interior
at Washington yesterday received the report
of James Moore, of New Jersey, John L. Mer-
riam, OF Minnesota, and John g. DeleDo, of
Ohio, commissioners appointed to examine
whether the deficiencies in the construction
of the Union Pacific railroad as reported by
the commission OF eminent citizens appointed
by Secretary Cox under the act Of congress OF
April 10. 1859, have been supplied and the
road COM leted, as required by said report.
The present commissioners examination was
commenced on the twenty-h to of september
and completed on the NTH instant, and they
claim to have made II thoroughly and In de-
tail. The comm tssioners ina from personal
examination and from data furnished by the
company that the expenditure requir by
the former commission IN finishing bridges
and in replacing high trestles BY nlling with
earth, etc, ETC., were finally completed IN the
month OF September, 1874, and they have
therefore decided that the road, as built, Is
lrst-class railroad. fully complying with its
charter and with the requirements Of law,
and in accord nee with the Instructions OF
the department furnished to them. The re-
port Is signed by all three OF the commission
ers. II will require the approval of the
President and the formal acceptance Of the
road as a completed structure before patents
will issue for land grants. The supreme
court today advanced the Union Pacific rail-
road tax eases on the docket and set them