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State Lftrar? dh 3 5 a a t. APPEAL IE T.A. LI El TP, 1840. MEMPHIS, TENN. THESE A.Y, AUGUST 10, 135 VOL 85c JO 1-6 W9U.TSSX lXUABIMTIEi.

Washington, Aouht io, a.m. For the ltks region, the Ohio valley, Tammee and the GulJ Stales, increasing and local rains, with iGX varxab'e winds mostly from the and south, slight changes in the temperature and slowly fatting barome ter. The Ohio river will fall slowly below Louisville and rapidly above, but ioiU continue above the danger line between XvulevBlc and Evansville, and remain Itttowilat Pafucah. The Mississippi WW Jail slowly at St. Louti and Cairo ami remain stationary or rise very slight- qj at stations below.

THE FLOODS. What the I'rescnt nigh Kite In tho Mia-slfsfppl and its Tributaries has Accomplished of Jloln. Evening Journal, or that city, published Xovetnuer 25, 1S0S, is a narration that the city of New OrIeari3 was flooded by a orevas3e in 1785 at the eatne time. flood 01791. Both St.

Louis nnil Epitome, or Prorlons Floads, from 1718 to 1858 Interesting Historic Mem. oranda The First Letejg. lxjlonel JAJiK j. Bailey, of i-pjke at Joneaboro, East xmneshee, yesterday. What tho French Did In Louisiana Tho Federal Gorernment, Found tho Levee Sjstem and Encouraged It.

a male i Mississippi cotton wa? re ceived in Jew Orleans on Saturday by xaii, sou anotner eaterday by river. A telegram from Little Hack yee- )' informs us that the new after Hooa daily has tuspended. Another udd to the long roll of victims of im pecuuioeity. Review of SBgceslIona for Retrieving tho Lir Conntrj from these Perl, Inundations of the Fa ther of Waters. THE Joes by flocd Indiana will amount to twelve million dollars, ten million of which is euatained by the Tfirre Haute congroselonal district alone.

Colquitt, Hardeman, Gartrell, Wof- ford, James, M'Intyre, Bacon, Sim mora, Smith, Stephens and Lester, are the names of the candidates for governor of Georgia. xiiH grain iraoe uas become bo im portant in Middle Tennessee that Nash ville lm just built an elevator with capacity for one hundred thousand uusliols of Rrain. That's progress. It is stated, on the authority of the Al- 3nama papers, that the negroes of Mont gomery voted in herds against the new constitution, having been told by the JtepuDiicauB tmtt it would put them back into fclaverv. tiie Cincinnati Enquirer: It is tin necessary to arejue the question.

The election of Allen is conceded by the most intelligent men in this end of the state. AgiiDst him there are no -wafers wortu tafeiug." Mh. Plimsoll, fie frlond of the poor, uau-requueii sailors, 13 avenged. He nas forced tho ministry jnto the passage uj a tumping urn that, if not all he wanted, is next to it. Half a loaf is ueiter tuan jo lvrad.

rn xutu congressional nominations in Mississippi, so far as made, are Colonel Lamar, unanimously, in the first dis trict, o. R. Singleton in the fourth, Colonel C. E. Hooker in the fifth, and General W.

T. Martin in tho eixth dis- inct. The venerable statesman. Herechel V. JchuBon, is said to be a candidate for Uie next governor of Georgia, with Birong prospects of succef s.

A man of greater purity of life, or more substantial interest with his party, could not be lounu. The Washington ring expended over miy uiousaud dollars amoue the Chron. Jcle, the National Republican, Evening Star, Patriot, National Era, Sunday Asweiger, Journal, Grand Army Journal, Georgetown Courier, the Critic, and the Time, and it wasn't a good time lor organs eitiipr. This is good news, eepecitdly South Carolinians: the ex-treasurer of that State, who from jail las. mujs, wnue awaiting trial for plunder New York Times.

The great rains whloh hv faiton gouerntly over the whole country within the past fortnight have, up to the present moment, done mora iinmp-m i a.a valley of the Ohio and its tributaries than elsewhere. But if we should imagine for an instant that thore will be no other losses we ahmilil ho flint sin. selves to a very alarming state of things. It is true that so far the flooding has been confined to the Ohio belt, but there is sufllcient evident tht nfJ streams are gorged to their utmost capacity to make us tremble for the bottom lands of the great Mississippi valley. The Mississippi, north of Cairo wnere the Ohio ioins it.

to a point close upon the danger line, and far south of the Ohio anil the Arkansas are both in flood. Whenever the freshet of the Ohio nours its nto the. already swollen Mississippi, there will be irreat ilnncmr nt oi flood along the whole line, from the Yazoo to theBalize. It must stood that by far the greater portion of "Pia11 lands are below the level Of flood Water. Tn tlia phreya and Abbott, written before the war, it is computed that from Cape Girardeau, at the southern extremity of Missouri, to tho Red river landing, there are no less than nineteen thousand four hundred and eichtv land subject to overflow.

This area comprises the bottoms of the St Francis and the Yazoo. From tho Rd river landing to the Baliza there are upward Of one million anrsa in tlio Bom condition. These land comprise one-third of the cotton recion nf thA anntVt and the greater portion of the sugar lands. There have been evf-ry year partial floods, but since the flood of 185S there has not been any inundation Which COUld With Strict lUHtlVfl Ha nnllo.l general, ijast vear ths ovprtlnw in the Yaz)o and St. Francis bottoms was slight.

Lower down. Imnnw In Texas region lying northwest of the Red river landing, between what is called the Old river, which runs into the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya, there was considerable suffering owing to the floods. There was not anv frpRhnt. nf great consequence to produce this result, which was undoubtedly caused in a great measure by the defective condition of the levees. They were so leaky.ca worthless.in short, that the waters of the MississiDDi whn hirh poured through numerous small crevas ses, and coverimr the wholo innnrrv found their wav slowlv tn thp Atoha.

falaya, whicli drained them So with the Tensas. It rpnpicpri tho waters of the Mississinni. and. biutr somewhat swollen with the of the bayou which feeds it, then high with local rains, was incompetent to do its duty, and the adjacent lands were flooded. All these matters wprn Inrnl and partial.

In the great flood of 1853. which toos place in the summer. tbprH was a coincidence of freshet in the Ohio, the UDDer Mississinni. the Minannpi. tho Cumberland and the Tennessee.

The volume of water which poured through a crevasse into the St. Frannia hnttnm on that occasion exceeded two hundred and flfty thousand fubic feet per second, and the tends remained flooded until late in the fall. It is true that cenerallv a taken to Columbia in and, wo "yr, win gee wnat he deserveB, 1HB California election takes place September 1st, and the canvass there is consequently busk throughout the sum mer. Parties are abont evenly divided the question of State control of corpora uuus uemg or absorbing interest. Four congressmen are to be elected, for which reasons the campaign is unusually ag greseive and lug the Bute while in ofllce, was recap- ia lhe ault of spring tared in Camden'It nioht n-t noininvariapieriiIe.

ABur, aiso. at ne Dlantera nf tlio rlnn. 'ian lands on the lower Mississippi are concerned, a concurrent flood of the Mississippi and the Arkansas is as much calculated to do them damn 5m mn. eral concurrence of freshets. In the very mil dispatches to the New York Times irom me regions of danger, we And that the Ohio is dangerously high, and that iue Arsansas is rifug one foot per hour.

Fortunately there has been no rise in the Missouri, and the exact point is whether me uusHSBippi, wnicn has risen considerably north of Cairo, will be so swollen south of its junction with the Ohio as to render the levees useless when it meets tho flood-waters of the Arkansas. The at. rancis and the Yazoo bottoms, one on the west and the other on the east bank of the big river, are Dom norm 01 the Arkansas mouth, but below it is the Tensas bottom and all the rich riparian lands from tho RPt river to the Balize. That this should be added to the difficulties of the southern planters difficulties which they were bravely struggling wm ub a source 01 sorrow to our antirn nation. Nor can we auite close to the fact that it will also be a BOUrp.n nf considerable national loss; for the cotton interests are most deeply aS'ected by It, as one may judge from the fact that the staple rose one-half cent a nnnmi upon the Intimation of the probability of disaster, though it has since fallen to its nominal price.

The redoubtable, indefatigable and irrepressible Sam Bard announces in 1 article in the Montgom ery (Aia.) Mate Journal that he is in fa vor of a third term. Still, he will sup. port any candidate whom the Republi cans may select. And all this notwithstanding Grant kicked him out of the Atlanta posfofllce. we learn from the Nashville frtion and American that a convention will be held in Rome, Georgia, on tho sixth of October next, for the purpose of securing an organized effort jr the opening of the Coosa river and its tributaries to navigation, and uniting tbem by a short canal "With tho waters of the upper Tennessee.

All persons feeling an Interest in the enterprise are Invited to attend. TheNiw York Itibunc thinks that Judge Curtte's decision as to accepting drafts by telegraph will be welcomed in commercial circles. He regards a dispatch agreeing to accept a draft as the equivalent of a written acceptance. This Rives the sanction of law to what has hitherto been matter ofhonor, and addato tho usefulness of lhe telegraph ia facilitating mercantile transactions. That internatiaual case In Haytien waters will not amount to anything.

The British, uual, have It all their own way. A dispaich from Havana yesterday says that the cargo of the British vessel pursued in Haytien waters by a Spanish gunboat ha9 been embargoed by the consul-general of Spain in Hayti, and will bs taken by a Spanish man-of-war to Havana. The Diario thanks the British oonsul-peueral in Hayti for hia good offices in the siTiir. The G. W.

Cheek being delayed, the Appeal's special reporter did not arrive in time for us to print the result of his Interviews with the planters below here as far down Napoleon. Wo hope to bo able to-morrow morning to give a complete report of the damages by the overflow, and the general condition of our friends who have just barely escaped one of ths most disastrous visitations that could have curae on them. In ilea of what we expectsd from our delayed reporter, we publlrh to-day a lengthy and exoaustive article from the New York Times on floods and levees. epitome of previous floods. It may be interesting to our rpiipn to glance over a brief epitome of all that has been recorded of floods in th Ann.

elssippi. The early records are not very full, and were taken frnm old French chronicles for the part, by Humphreys and Abbott. It will be seen by a comnarison of thn iH li ferent events that the Inundations sometimes in one month and sometimes in another, and that they have occurred with irregular regularity. In this connection it may be interesting tn brief summary of the great floods of the Flood 01718. An extraordinary rise of the Mississippi this year.

Bienville had selected a site for the city, but the colony not having means to build dykes or levees, the idea was for the moment abandoned. Francois Xavier Martin. Flood of 1735 In this year the waters were so nigh that many levees were broken and much damage was done. New Orleans itself was inundated. The flood continued from the latter part of Dfcembfr to the latter part of June.

When the river fell it reached a lower point there ever before noted, the range at New Orleans being fifteen feet. Oa-zarre. Flood 01770 A great fl wd, accord ing to the tradition recorded by Gov- eruor Sargent, out the published etato- ments concerning it aresoambieuou3 as to render it uncertain whether iln fljed was equal to that of 1811, or a foot higher. Flood of 1782. This year tho Missis-1 aippi reached a greater hight than was rememnereu oy me oldest inhabitants.

In the Attakapas and Opelousss the inundation was extreme, tLo few spots which the waters did not reach, being covered with dead deer. Francois Aa-vier Martin. This year, 17S2, was considered FiOodofllSS A great flood at St. Louie iu Aju'l. fa'd to have been equal to 1S44.

Prof. Riddell, of New Orleans, htatea that in tho Ami des Lois and New Orltaus were flooded iu the same way as la 17S5. i-Voocf O170S TheTeche river over-flawed its banks for sixty miles above ew Iberia, and poured into Grand Lake in a smooth sheet of wat-jr. The take at this date attained its Itu, being two feet five iDchosihigher than in IS2S, six feet eight inches higher than in 1850, and four ftet higher than the oidi- uary level 01 gulf Hood of 1703. In this year the cities of St.

Louis and New Orleans were flooded ia the month of April as in 17fc5 and 1791. Flvod of 1800. A mot disaslrous flood, according to the notcnf Governor Sargent. It inundated all the plantations near Natchez, and destroyed all ths crops. At Natchez tais llaod was onefoot six incheJ below that of 1S15, and two feet ono inch below 1S5S, the highest ever known there.

The of the highest flood was May 4th. Flood of 1811. There was a great flood this year. Brackcnridge. Daring this Inundation much damage was dona by the water rushing through the unro-pairedrents inthclevec.

Gov. Sargent places this flood as being, at Natchez, where he made Ills one foot five inches below the high water of 1010. me nigneat nood was in June. Flood of 1813. The simo facts as recorded ut ion, but tho water waa six to eight inches higher than that year.

Fiood 01815. A very great flood. At the month of the Ohio It attained the highest point ever reached two feet above the high-water mark of 1S5S. The h'ghest flood was on the ninth dav of April. It was due to a general coincidence of rises in the upper tributaries of the Mississippi.

At Natchez Governor Sargent states that the highest flood was on the twenty-second day of June, whereas the highest flood at Cairo, at the mouth of the Ohio, wa9 seventy-four days previous. It was two inches higher as xaicuez than any recorded iliod, save 1853. On this occasion, fortunately, Red river was low enough to allow the Atcuaiaiaya to do good service a3 an outlet, for no damage was done below Red river landing. Flood 01828. In this year the Yazoo bottom was completely overflowed to a depth of three feet, tho Indian mounds being covered with wild animals that perished from starvation.

The rain began early and continued until August, making the season an unusually wet one. The bottoms were fall of water before tho Mississippi flood came. Tho highest water was on the fifteenth day of August. unere were subsequent floods in 1844 in August, in 1850 iu April, in 1851 iu April and May, and in 1858 in July. Tnis was a very g'eat flood indeed, six thousand eight hundred square milts of the Yaz io bottom and nine thousand nine hundred of the St.

Francis bottom being covered with water. In 1859 there was also a flood, which was very high, but not so disastrous as the former year. the levees. It is a fair inquiry what amount of protection the owners of property in these sections have received from their levees. The first settlera came from France, and established themselves at Natchez upon the blufls there, and at New Orleans.

Here thev at once found they would have to adopt precautions to save me lniant colony from inundation; and in tho history of Dumont it ia wric-ten that M. De la Tour, a royal engineer, ordered a solid stone dice to b9 constructed in front of the place as early as 1707. But, for want of funds, this was not finished until 1727, when, in the report of Governor Perrier, it was announced that the levee was fl vo thousand four hundred feet in length, with a width of eighteen feet at the top. In two years this commencement of the levee system reached above ihe city for a distance of eighteen mileB, but it waa not so strong or so effleisnt above as that in front of the city. For these latter weie composed of tho earth of the banks, mere silt and detritus thrown up by the river itself, and liable to be washed away very soeedilv, In 173.V when the Mississippi colony was transferred to King Louis, the ievee extended twvlve miles below the city and thirty miles above.

But this was a flood year, and there were so many crevis3es, partly in consequence the inefficient mau-ner in whici. tho banks were nade. that a series of edicts were promulgated requiring every planter to complete his levee under pain of forfeiting his lauds to the crown. In this way tho levec were extended more and more without any system by mere individual efforts of settlers, so that when Louisiana was ceded by the first Napoleon to Country there were continuous levees from the lowest settlement south of New Orleans to the mouth of Red river on the west side and to the neighborhood of Baton Kouge on the other. And so they lengthened and lengthened, until 1844 they had crept up to the mouth of the Arkansas.

And in 1850 the Federal gov ernment, uesinng prot-abiy to have tne system compieteu, made a grant of all the alluvial land south of the mouth of the Ohio to their respective States as a nucleus for a fund to reclaim them. The States of Louisiana, Miesusippi, Arkan sas anu Missouri organized omces for the sale of these swamp lands, and appointed commissioners for the construc tion of the levees. Some recommenda Hons were then made for a united and comprehensive system of management. as prior to that time each parish or coun ty naa looseu alter its own levees. In Louisiana the police jury had charge of the bU3iness, and in Mississippi there was a board of levee conimhsioners elected by the riparian counties.

Under the carpetbaggers the matter has passed into the hands of the State, which is a manifest improvement so far as system is concerned. But the practical working of these men has simply been to get all the money possible and to use it for other purposes whose nature it is unnecessary to particularize. It is obvious, then, that the levee system was not thn deliberate choice of American engineers as the most thorough protection against the Mississippi floods. We found it, and it grew under our noses. And w-a havs seen it fail repeatedly.

Southern enei- neers have at different times susreested other methods of protection, which may be briefly characterized as two-fold. The first way is to modify the actual rela-1 Hons existing between the accelerating and retarding forces in the channel in such a manner as to enable the former to carry off the surplus fiood water with out so great a rise in the surface as iney now require, this is tho system of cut-offs. Becondly, it has hppn nrnnnaoil in i- 1. maximum discharce of thp w-ntpr hw diversion. This is the system of artificial reservoirs and lakes and outlets.

Now, the supporters of both these plans base their propositions upon the idea that the levee system, Useless now because imperfect, would, if thoroughly carried out, tend to raieo the bed of the river. This would end in an eternal strife between man and tho Mississippi, In which the latter must be finally vio-torious. The idea that a river confined to its channel by artificially raised banks will elevate its bed originated with M. de Prohny, of France, and was strougly ueized upon by Cuvier. The former gentleman asserted that it was proved by actual observations on the river Po.

Although these have been proved incorrect by a great hydraulic engineer of Italy, Lombardiui, and although Humphreys and Abbott, in their exhaustive report of the Mississippi, have considered the FUtject dieposed of in the negative, yet there are ninny who continue to aflin.i it, ant! who say that whiie it may not be true cf rivers whose sediment is gravelly, it ia true of those whose waters contain vegetable silt. WHAT HaS v.ND MAY BE DONE TO PREVENT OVEKFLO.V. While the doctors disagree upon this Important point, all admit that the presfiit levees are ridiculously unscientific. They are ottea built where they are not required, aid they aro invariably too weai at important places. In ppite of all tho experience of the past, the levee at Bonnet Carre yields at once whenever approached by anything like a freshet.

It would seem that those who aro temporarily in charge of the levees at different points are truly negligent in not strengthening the weak places iu the bends by lateral spurs. Everywhere in European lands where man has endpavored to protect fertile regions, the engineers 'iave strengthened their dykes by such a device. On the Po, at Parpanese, the most dangerous erosions are stopped by live spurs, which form an obtuse angle with the shore, to which tliey aro strongly so-curtd. They commence with a base of about twelve gabions-, made of willow twir rifled with earth, which sustain be tween their angles eleven gabions, upon wmeu are placed ten mor', and so on the number in each nursolessenirirerad' ually to the top, there aro niyfour or five. Here is a niicbod that could oe employed advantaceouly unonthe Mia aissippi, for here there Is lolbing that can be utd for the levee save earth.

Tnere is no stone below Viekabu''r, the whole immense strength ths banks beirg muring tave aimvium. below this substance there Is indeed an Inex haustible supply of bluo aluminous clay, whicn would be a very efficient matter lor covering the front of the Ievee, as the Hollanders do with their dykes of uuuminous eartn. uut there are dim eulMes in obtaining this which seem most ir.etirmorintanie. The system of cut-oils has been pronounced impossible as reg-tros ini iyiia3isippi by very good authorities Humnhrevs and Abbott. The general idea of the cut-off is to shorten a river by straightening it lhis is done by cutting through the ueuus.

jt course it is oDvions that to do this with any hope of benefit, it would au5umtciji ucuvaaiy iu inane tne cuts from tho beginning to the end. The ex pense would naturally be- something uim ij more man doubt rut the experiment would sue ceed. it was tried in the river Arno, by tho famous Italian encinppr Vivianu, In the latter part of the aeven- teenin century, without going into de tail, it may be recorded that he laid it down as a first principle that It was requisite to traverse and obstruct the course of the Arno in whatever way it 1.1 If 1 1 A uuum uetusuieu, anu to compel tins river to deposit its gravel and large stones in its upper bed. To do this he narrowed and straightened it. He shortened it three miles above Florence, and one nine oeiow, and tne consequence was that the bed cf the river was indubitably raieu, anu me stones anu gravel were carried further down than ever before.

Now the inevitable consequence of the rise in tho bottom of a river is that there will bo a greater hight ol tho waters in iliods, a difficulty in procuring a vent for of the lower part of the stream, and an absolute necessity iur a very tuorougn system or high lev ees, it id ciear, moreover, that tho Mi3 sissippi cannot be handled in such fash ion. Ihe idea of cut-ofl's may, there fore, be definitely abandoned. The plan of artificial outlets and reservoirs has very much greater plausibility, and the time may come When it will be serioua uiaum-i-cu. Arnnciai laces that would rn ctive the surplus fullness of the Missis Bippi, and keep it low, would be of more essential service in mitigating the floods, although they could not possibly prevent tliem. The Mississinni is in flnnd uunng lengmeneu perl.idd, but the freshets 'ouaefrom the tributaries like a iusii.

Whenever the river is iu flood, at their cominer there must he sprim trouble a'l along the banks, because the combination of the two is too much for any system of levees. But if by artifi cial lakes the river, when it has a tendency to flood, can be relieved, then the ijiapue oi me nesnots 01 the Ohio and other tributaries would be immensely lesseueu. ah tne artiiical outlets. of couree'they could be made very ser- viteauie; out tne eunjeci is very com plex and demands considerable knowledge of localities. It is far easier to dn on the map than in reality.

The Atchafalaya looks as if it could easily be made the channel of the Red river. But ho who baa looked at them both will laugh at the idea that tho puny channel of the former could possibly contain the waters oi tne otner when in high flood. TIIE WABASII. .81111 IIooidIdc It la How np to the Hlgb-TFntc-r Unrk of lS2S-Im-mtme Ilnmage. Evansville, August 9.

A letter from New Harmony to the Journal saya that the Wabash is now up to the high-water mark of 1828; it rose an inch ah hour during Sunday night. A levee fcjKe Saturday Dight and inundated many farms, destroying much property, and a great deal of stock 13 in dangn. Ontfman has seventy head of mules and pue hundred head of cattle which were likoly to be drowned. Tuga are towing baizes loaded with stock day and night. Thousands of acre3 of corn are submerged.

Tho trestle-work on the St. Louis and Southeastern railroad Is endangered, but trains have arrived regu-lrly, though behind time, up to the present. ELECTION NEWS. terday. in, emlneullva KHtnily ana is .1 it8 ac-ion, health to Cbler HlMlnm K.

Koss lt ElecNd bj the Indian Nation lteuiouriilH Ahead In Xorth Carolina. Fort Gibson, August 9. The result cf the late election in the Cherokee Nation for first and second chief, senators, members of tho national ami grand council, and for district officers, passed off quietly. No disturbance of any kind except in one precinct in Baqunjih district, where some hot-headed partisans of the Downing party took possession of the polls, driving off the judgee, taking thair places and receiviug votes. The returns will be thrown out for irregularity, but the precinct being small it will not effect the general result.

Returns come in slowly, owing to the high stage of water in the streams having no bridges; they all have to be crossed by fording. The hieh water nreventa many from reachinn the noils. The re sult is in doubt for chief, and so close that official count may be necessary to decide. It is generally conceded tonight, however, that the present chief, William P. Boss, is re elected for sr second term of four years.

Ross has a uiBjuiuy iu tne senate anu council. A majority of the officers of the Rosa nart are elected. The nredictions of bloou- shed dnring the election, were happily uui venueu. Sortta Carol! va. Raleigh, Aueuat 9.

Tne result of the convention is still in doubt. Returns from all the counties except one show a representation as follows: Fiftv-nino Democrats, fifty-nine Republicans and one Independent Cherokee county Is to hear from, which has heretofore voted Democratic. Ths Demo crats claim four majority in the convention. Alsbnmn. Montgomery, August 9.

Comnlsto tBiurus snow tnai tne convention is carried by sixteen thousand five hundred majority. Delegates elected number, Democrats, eiehtv-one: Indpnnnd- ent Democrats, six; Republicans, twelve. The grasshoppers are damaging crops in North Alabama. Senator Morton spoke at Urbanna, uuiu, oaiuruay nigut. Ihe American marksmen left Paris ior ijonoon Saturday night.

ino steamer Wieiand, from Now iors, arrived at J'Jymonth yesterday The steamship Arch Druid, from erpool, arr.ved at New York yesterday. Victor Hugo welcomed tho American nue-team to nis residence Iu Paris Sat urday. ihe York burned to the water's eJge at Masaena, New York, on ouuuay, The Now yesterday Tho steamship Phoenician, from Glas gow, arrived at termer 1'oint, Canada, yesieruay. The steamships Germania and Wis consin, irom Liverpool, arrived at New orE Saturday. The Ma taachusettd Republican State convention will be held at Worcester, a i oejueinuer Tne steamers Oily of Chester and The viueeu, irom Liverpool, arrived at New York, yeatertUy.

The recent rains throughout Kansas nave not injured corn or any other grain io a great exieni. fix. Megan was struck and inBtantly Kiiitu oy ngntning at uueyenne, Wyo ui ii yesteruay. Mr. Hchoeze, of Vickaburg, won tho silver cup at the rille-shooting match at oiuigart oaiuruay, One hundred and two thousand poundi Duiuon went into the Bank of Eaclaud on balance yesterday.

The printers' strike in Washington is over, mty cenis per thousand ems hav ing oeen agreed upon A dispatch from Paris says the waters or tne Home are filling and tho danger 01 an oveniow averted. ruteeu tuousanu persons attended a Methodist camp-meetiug at Old Orch ard Beach, Maine, Saturday. inreo cuuuren, picKing berries near Ottawa, Canada, a few days ago, were Kineu anu devoured by bears. Another one hundred thousand dolla: specie haul ha3 been made from the wrecK of the Schiller, Cardinal M'Cioskey sailed from New York to Rome Saturday, where he will receivo the cardinalatering and hat belne kept rea-Jy for inn lwllain ru-4rt. u-ifi save many ai.

hour or hutwiug an many dollar in time and doctors' t1II. after over Forty Years trial It Is still receiving the anqnnimed testimonials to lta virtues from persons or tbe hlsliest character an Eminent corrneuiS as the most ErFKlTlU I. M-IH Ifn- forTon- srtpation, Headaobe, Pain In th sour tMomaeu, ban 1..410 In -ne Hnutb, bilious nttickv. PVnltaM of th mean, rm in the region or the liiiliievs. despondency.

Bloom and forelMXllnHOf n'vll. nil of which are theoffuprlnirot a DlKeafied Liver. 11 you ieei Kuii, urjwsy, Debilitated, hav irequent Headache, month tastes badly, poor ip-m, anu lougne coaiu, 7011 are from loroid Liver, or Uillnuanetx anil nothing will cure you sospHlily and permanently. The Liver, the larct orvau in tu body. Is generally the teat oi the dl ease, and If not ienlat'd In time great suffering, wretchedness and Ie it will ensue.

Armed with this Ant'dote. all climates and changes of water and lood mav oe faced wiin out fear. As a remedy in Malarious Fevers. Bowel Complaints, Kestlesiness, Jauntdce. Nausea, the Cheftoest.

Purnst nnil Rjmt Furrllv Medicine In the World. Murder Taleqnah-TALEQUAH. I. August 9. Thomas Carlisle, a white man, out a citizen of the Cherokee Tation by marriage, and a well-to-do farmer, while sleenini? on thn porch of his house on Friday night, was taken from his bed by three men, murdered in the presence of his family, and lobbed of quite a sum of monev.

Par- lisle lived near Talequah, on Cane creek, and was highly lespected by all who knew him. Chief William P. Ross has gone up to investigate, and will at once offer a reward for tue capture of the murderers, who are unknown. Tieasnry Jtobbery. Washington, D.

August 8. No time is yet fixed fjr the preliminary ex amination of the persons arrested for the 01 ti.o rony-seven thousand dollar package from the treasury department. Oltomnn has employed Richard T. Merrick as counsel, and an effort will be made to hae hh bail ledueed, but the authorities demand the bonds. Oltman recently made a heavy deposit in a bank in Alexandria, and officers have gore'o secure the money.

The employes in the cash room at the treasury department have been watched in all their movements since the robberv. Washington, D. August 9. Oilman appeared to-dy before Judge Snell, ami waived a preliminary examination. The judge, after hearing the statement of the district-attorney, required bail in ten thousan 1 dollars, in default of whi3h Oltman was committed.

The sealed picknge tearing Oilman's name, which was deposited in Alexandria bank, having been opened, was found to contain twenty-nine five-hundred-dollar hills Tho package was taken to Washington. Detectives expect to recover twenty thousand dollars more to-day. About twenty thousand dollars of the money stolen from the treasury has been recovered. This afternoon the marshal seized the property of Oltman and closed his restaurant. The whole amount taken will probably bo restored to the treasury.

Corn Trade. London. March 9. The Mark Lane Express, in a review of tho corn trade. says: weather, though broken.

has been on the whole tolerably fine: crops are progressing favorably, but it is unreasonable to expect the nlentv or quality of last year, after a nearly sun less July and such heavy rainfalls as they have found inFrance.as far as they have gone, and flour has risen four francs per sack in Paris bv thn lmlk. Our own harvest is yet uncut. Some of our country markets have hpsitatpd aboutPiibmitting to any decline, though generally it reached one to two shillings per quurter. Larsrs sneculativn nur. chases have been made in London on American account.

The Loudon mar ket with an improved aansnt anil upward tendency, which must be governed entirely by tho weather. There certainly seems quite as much a chance of a rise as a fall." Onr (ram. London, August 9. The gentlemen of the Americau team and their friends arrived this mornintr from Paris. Rv.

eral of the party will visit Sir Henry Haiford to-morrow at Wislow Hall, his country seat in Leicestershire, where they will meet a number of distinguished visitors. On Thursday they will all go to Liverpool to embark for home on the steamer City of Berlin, except Mr. Bruce, who remains on the continent. Zhe Omaha, Neil, August 9. To-day's sptuiali from the west say the grasshoppers are very numerous at Grand Island, Willow Island, Central City, Wood River and Hastings, and are doing great damage in the vicinity of those placfs.

Immense cicuda of hoppers are flying southward. Memy Order or Attachment. New York, August 9. This afternoon on application of Fairchiid, assistant state attorney, Judge Westbrook granted an order of attachment against Dennison, canal contractors, for four hundred and Feventeen thousand dollars, and an order of arrest requiring bail from eacn in two hundred thousand dollars. From Night to Llthl.

Fond duLao. Wis Autnst 6. Mrs. Clark D. bamp3on, who has been an invalid for some months, and for several weeks has exhibited unmistakable stons of insanity, undertook to commit suicide yesterday forenoon by cutting her throat.

She got possession of her husband's pocket-knife, and wi.Ii it she hacked her throat badlv. inflietinsr sev eral ugly wounds; but fortunately they will not prove fatal. Stranere to ssv. after bleeding an hour or two, Mrs. Sampso'i's reason returned, and she ia now as sane as ever.

She is a woman much loved by her neighbors. Sad Cate of Drowning. Niagara Falls, August 9. To-dav six citizens of this place visited the Cave oi vvinua without a guide, as they had frequently done before. After passim? i.

I. iuiuuku iuu iave two or narrv. rvir Jiineioert ara(ua, 8ged twenty-nine yeans, auu uniss JjOllie U. aged twenty-five, descended to an eddy which is never visited even bv iha cuides. Tho lady lost her foothold, and was caught uy me Renueman, out the current car ried both into the river, where thy were drowned.

They were soon to be married. Railroad Tax oilier Hatters. Omaha. Neb August 9. The in the suit cf the Burlincton and Mis souri River railroad.in Nebraska, against sixteen counties, to restrain the treasur ers from collecting taxes for 1874, has been filed in the office of the clerk of the United States court.

A temporary injunction has been granted till August 31st. None of the parties shot by M'EIro at Elkhorn, Saturday, were seriously injured. A good rain fell here early this morning. Big Fire. Oshkosh, August 9.

A fire broke out this afternoon iu the three-story brick building occupied by R. J. Weisbrood, furniture anu piano manufacturer. The fire originated in the third story, which was the working-room, by a spark from a neighboring foundry coming through an open win now wnue tne worcmen were gone to dinner. The upper atory wa3 burned out; the first and second stories were badly damaged by water.

Tne stock on the first floor, including pianos and organs, was all removed. The damage to the building was ten thousand dollars, fully insured; the loss on the furniture, by fire and water will pT-obably be two thousand dollars, insured for one thousand. Hera WliiiUy 1'raudy. Chicago, August A peculiar case of "crooked" whisky wa3 discovered to day in the rectifying of is. M.

uord, unver 35 South Water street. The amount involved is about four hundred barrels. It fesms that a 'arge amount of whisky ra3 been shipped by that firm to the east, principally to Haskell Hetzelgeaser, of Indianapolis, and the irregularity of the matteris that while the barrels had the proper amount of liquor, and the stamp was correctly affixed and approved by the ganger, yet the stubs on the gauget's book indicated that 07ly a small rart of the correct amount was contained in. the barrels. For example, where eighty-two gallons were shipped the stub would denote only about twenty-fjur.

From this the conclusion was reached by Inspector Matthews that crook m1 whisky had been gotten into the stills and that this means was taken to get it out, and that the Kauster. J. M. Hood, who has done the larger part of the work for the I aud Torpidity of tue Liver, and relief is nrm, ha3 connived at the deception The error was discovered when the foot mgs of the books of the Indianapolis Arm were compared with these of the Chicago firm in the treasury depart ment. I have never sppnnriTfeii urchfltimnid efficacious, satisfactory and pleasant remedy In my life ll.

li aiser, Ht, Louis, Mo. UUM. ALBS. 11. STEPHENS.

I occasionally use. when mv condition m. quires It, Dr. aimmon' Liver Itegulator, with good effect." Hon. Alex.

H. Stefh sms. UOVEKNOB UK ALABAMA. lour lteirulator ltn boon I family for Some time. Jnrl nm nnminrlpil 11 Is a valuable addition to the medical science." Uov.

J. Gill Hiioktek. Alabama. I have used the Reeiilntor In mv tnmllv for the part seventeen years. I can safely recoin- iiikuu it io me worm as tbe bet medicine 1 nave ever ueu ior lliatclnss of diaeaf-ea It pur.

ports to cure." 11. K. Thioi-kn. rKJSIDENT OK U1TY PANK. "oimujuuH uver lleernimor naw nrovpil goou anu emcacious medicine C.

A. Ncttino DKUUUIST. "We have been ucciualntari with Ilr. Sim. mons' Liver Medicine for morn lhan f.icniv years, ana know It to be the best Liver Regulator offered to the public." M.

K. Lyon and xi. ij. x. von, xseueiouiaine, Ua.

SOOIONS' LIYEJl liEGUi ATOK Kor Dysoepsia. J.mnillco. mi. ions Sicii He tdache, Colic, Depress Ion of Spirits, Sonrf-tcmacti, Heartburn. Etc Is a 1 anlMe-s family med ictne.

Does noi dlsarrai)e the system. Is ire to cure if t.iteu regularly. Is no drastic violent medicine. Dors not interfere with business. la no intoxicating heverauv.

Contains the simplest and best remedies. OiLUT-IOET. Eny no Powders or Prenarwi srrtnvc LIVER KEGULATOK nnless in our eneraved wrapper, with Trade Mark. Slamn nmi Muna. tare None other is eenulne.

II. ZEIL.IN Macon, and Philadelphia. The SymDtoms of Liver I'mnnlnlnl am easiness and oain in the ship. snmiiMni.c ih. pain Is in tne shoulder, and is mistaken for rheumatism.

The stomach. Is affected with los of appetite and fcicaness. tan-nn in eral costive, sometimi alternating with lax. ine ueaa is trouble) with pain, ard dull, heavy seuf-atioD, considerable lossof memory, accompanied Willi oaiuful Ine leit undone something whirl, have beu- one. Often compl.inlnirof weakness, debility, anil low Sometimes mnynr the ab.jve svmutomi atinml ihn.tu.

ease, and at other Urn-s ery lewo: fliein; but the liver is neraly the organ most involve i. ai, menses oriinau irom nellies Ilnfl'itlo It aces. Buffalo, August 9. The races today were attended by six thousand people. The unfinished 2:40 race of Saturday waa won by Ashland Pet, who took the deciding heat in 2:301.

Wootl- rufl second and Quaker bav third. Ins purse for the ciasa, S3000 $1500 to first, $750 to the iewntl, $450 to the third, and $300 to the three heats were won by fci one-it Harry, the second and sixth by Idol, and thefourihand fifth Lewentein, when each horse having two heats, the completion race was postponed until to-morrow. Time 2:27, 2:26, Race for 2:22 class purso of $-1000 $2000 to first, SiOOO to second, $000 to third, and $400 to fourth. Won by Lucille Gold Dust, ia three straight heat. Time 2:22, Bell A.

second, Sea Foam third, Lady Star fourth, Thomas L. Young and Grafton in the rear; the latter last in each beat. Time 2:21, 2:22, The race for the 2:34" class; puiae, $2rOO; SI250 to thf first, $625 to secouu, 5do to tnixo and S'Jou to fourth. w.s won r-y J. W.

io three straight heats. Time 2:30, 2:333, General William Wallace second, Billy rower tniru, narry jounstou fourth. a' ways anxiously sought after. If the Liver variably emr-l. Want of aetkm In th causes Headache, Constipation, Pain In the shoulders.

Coughs. Chi ns hinr bid iw Bilious i'alpttaUon ol the pres-jonof -p'rlt rr the lies, and i dre-l other sjmptoui tor which sj nr l.ltKK Kf is the best r. thai ha. ever beeL discovered. It act-.

ettv-ctii dlv, and living a slmp'e coiupo'iut. can do no Injury In any tits thai It may tie taitn. It bka -every way it has beeu twed for tori and hundreds of the good great iron parts of the country will vouch fur n.s tbe purest and best. THE Cf.fTOTT. "My wife and seir Lave ut the I.jui.i for years, and tet-tify to i great vn Rev.

J. K. Feldbk. Perry. -a- INDOrtHEXENT "I have given yonr ine-H-lBe retrial, and In no ease has it failed to ku satisfaction." Ellejj Mka.ch ax, Chatta! chie, Fla.

SHERIFF BIBB COCNTY. "I have used your Regulator with suoi-- -effect In HIllousCoIlc and Dyspepsia excellent remedy, and certainly a pu blessing." C. Mastehson', Htbb count MV WIFE. "My wife has suffered from a iterant- ir of Ihe Liver for years; has tried sevi-r-il nent physicians to no effect, and fii.uh rived n.ore benefit from Ihe Ksgu.at.. anything el-e." Kcohkv i.

"I thlntc Simmons' Liver KeguhVor ov tho boMt metllrines ever made for th- IJ My wife and many others have used It wonderful effect." E. K.di-AKKS,Alou. a. v. "I have used the Kauslator in mv far- and also In my regular practice, ai; I found it a mot valuable and sat.

medicine, aud lelleve ir it was used b-. pron-vioa woma bo or service tn verv ma cases. 1 kao very much of Its com parH, and can certify its medicinal are perfectly F. Urigi.s, Macjn i t. EX-MEMBER LSOISLATURK.

"The Regulator was ued by me for o-nes. and had a very happy effect, an. I In my opinion, the same is a xoort J. a. oklow, Americas, Oa.

KDITOliJAL. We have tested Its v.r: ues. persona l-, i know that for Dyspepsi i.i.tou.sn- Throbbing Heatlache.it is the bet ru- the worldeversjw Weliavetrlod foit remedies before Simmon- Liver Hiv' but none of them save us more thsc rary relief; but the Regulator BOt orr. lleed, but cured us." Lb. ruLKuBAi -Messenger, Macon, Or.

MKDIC.VL. "I have ueil Hlmmons' Liver Resnla'or prepared by with Ihe happu- suits. I regard it as one oft very best m. clnes for all Disease of tne Liver -southern climate." John a. 'isal, m.

Vallambrosa. (ia. I have suffered for a long time wi Hi I Disease, and fo ind KeguU tlrely restored me. ISy wife and v. were cured, bvthe sanm reme.lv imm i andFever." O.

L. Davis, Hi bb counts. 'j i. --rrom actual experience In the use oi medicine iu my piact'ce. 1 hiive beer.

r. am, satisded to use and prescr: it as atlve medicine." Dr. J. W. Ma-ov.

I have nved Dr. bimmomV Livtr in ray family for some time, and look as the best medicine 1 Ll.ii "I have used Dr. Liv -j Neu. for Liver Disease and was enred by It." -I. Uoff, Bibb county, lia.

M. FLOliU-A fONFKKESL'fc. I have used Dr. Simmons' Llvjr Keuul in my family for Dypep-iia and Sick H. ache, and regard it an In valuable remed his not falltd to give en ire rel.rff in an v- stance." cv.

W. F. r. -TFr su. PRESIDENT OULKTII' 'ItPK "Simmons' Liver Hutu' ittir Is "h- i specific for that clat-s ot ut, claims to cure "Key.

David Wills, TO BB CLOSED TfilSffiSBE, ifiif? op row oPPirp Ladies' Suits at $1. Ladies' nits at $2, Ladies5 Suits at $3, Children's Dresses at50o and $1- ADDITIONAL UIYEiVBEPOBTH A Hmve Woman. Montreal, Autrust 9. Yesterday five young roughs attempted to forcibly enter the ln-use oi a respectable woman named Mrs. Downe, at Point St.

Charles. Mrs. Downs fired into tho crowd, killing one named Mchan. Attempted Kape. Peoria, III 6.

Henry HofT-ner, son of F. J. Hofloer, a well known German saloon-keeper of this city, was Bent io tne county jn to-day on the charge of rape. It seems that the boy is somewhat insane, and has often been known to indulge in debasing and inhuman practices. Late last night the cries of a child in distres were heard proceeding from a barn on HofTner's premises, and a man named Micheal Hutt rushing down, found Hoflher in the act ol ravishing a little girl named Annie Fuger.

The police were notified, and HotTder was arrested. The girl is but six years old, and of very respect- aoie parentage. The tilasgow Kloterr. London, August 10, 5 a.m. A special to the Standard, from Glasgow, reports that sixty rioters, many of whom were badly hurt, were brought before the magistrates yesterday and remanded to jail.

The riotinc broke out arrain in th mh. urto on Monday, and volunteers and regular troops were ordered to hold themselves In readinew, but the disturbance was quieted by the reading of tbe riot act. It Is remarked that mobs of Catholics, armed with hatchets, steel nuckles and knives, are organized and acting under leapers. It is reported that several of the men in custody are b-ad-cen-tera. Kiddle Tennessee Tor Bate.

Special to Appeal. Nashville. Aueuat 9 Xinot pan nur Lot twenty are for Bate all over Middle iennesseo, aud second choice of the friends of all aspirants in East Tennessee. PiTTSBURa, August 9. Kight Elver falling, with 7 feet 7 inches water in the chaunel.

Weather clear and pleasant. Vicksbuko, August 9. River rose 1 inch. Weather clear and warm. Up: Illinois.

None but local packets down. New Orleans, August 9. Weather clear and hot. Arrived: Simpson Horner, and barges, Pittsburg: Shannon. Ohio river.

No departures. St. Louis, August 9. Weather warm and clouny. River fallen 38 inches.

Arrived City of Vicksbursr, Vicksburc. Departed: City of Chester, Memphis. Cincinnati, August 9. Night River falling, with 49 feet 1 inch water in the channel. Weather clear and pleas ant.

Arrived: Charles Morgan, New Or- -v- 1 1 1 I leuuB au uepanures except local pack ets. Louisville, August 9. River falling, with 27 feet 1 inch water in the canal and 2o feel 1 inch in the Indian chute. Weathar clear and pleasant. Arrived: Cherokee, Cincinnati; Cons Millar, Memphis.

Departed: Con9 Millar, Cincinnati; Cherokee, New Orleans. 15! EO. UIDSEWBAR AT RE NAD I CS At a Reduction of One-Third. A Line of 25o Percales at 12 l-2o. A Large Line of assorted Dress Goods at lOo.

Fine Xinen lawns at 20o. Tine Quality Fast-Colored Lawn at 12 l-2o. Ladies' Ties at 15o. Hosiery Cheap. Fans at half price.

Fanov Gooda at a Sacrifice Cheap Prints. Cheap Domestic. Remnants at half price. Silk Parasols at Si. Carney Main and Court SlFeea, PID'JEON On Monday, at lOo'clock a.m.

after a protracted illness, Joseph Pidqeon, aged SI years. Funeral from his late residence, corner Second and Carolina streets, Fort this (TUESDAY) morning at 10 o'clock. Byracne and Chicago papers please copy. W. Z.

MITCHELL'S Uiluii uiik XKEDLE COTTO. CIVS. if! I.PU FAlBBi'V'K'5 a i-3yjeh 80, US -Inch hnTz9 $450. AWES' e.vgives. STIJAUB'3 K8r MILLS, RCflSEBnntl LEATHER BEL'l.

1 So. 303 Third SJreef. Sxmamer Sosslon Old Folks oi' Shelby County. REGULAR monthly meeting in Bchool Hoard room, Odd Fellows Building, on TUESDAY, Angnst 10th, nt i o'clock p.m. Memhere will attend promptly.

By order of the President. nu J. P. PKKM OTT, RecHee'y. MHIE members of the Emmet Literary and JL Debating Society of ilemph are requested to meet vv eunet-day evening, the llth Instant, at 8 o'clock.

Election of and permanent ganization will he effected. y3aa anil S4 TON BIN and MOID BY- OTTCXBO- lEO? 'o. a9 Front Street, Memphis wivm5iT. 'Jln iOperaaw. wiMim 1' liai.d, Horse and hteam Power Pna And BKUQKa- celebrate tUS?" 4110 late.

TlUa (TuendBj) Mornluc. AnCnst 101b, at Ten O'clock, 0KE FINE TOr-BUSGY, AT iOI MAIN -i'lUEST. M'CLOY UUir ncCionoers. Templo of lore, No. 1.

rilHE Temp.e will meet at its 'inior hall. SCO Second btreet, FKIOAt August Uth, at Tfi o'clock. By order. JAUKaON P. CHEW'S.

S. Willie B. Rooeks.K. a. STAPLE GROCERIES 200 packets fine Old Goi't JraCoffea.

10 hales extra fine Jlocl'a toffee. 800 lwg3 fair to prini Kio Coffee. 200 bb.s. Crashed ar.d rowderedSngar. 200 hbl3.

Standard A Sugar. 0 cknlce locteiitaa 50 tierce3 Iklinei lari. 1000 liackets Kelliied Larff. We InTlte the attention ol lhe Trade to tho snare, ami offer Spoeful to cash and prompt paying cHgtoMera..