Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-11
PUBLIC LEDGER.
Omce. No. l3 Madison street
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
BY TELEGRAPH.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
LATEST FROM ALL QUARTERS
Beecher on the New Orleans Riot
GuerrilIas Around Vera Cruz
COrdOya COlOnists Still Hopeful
Maine Congressional Election
The King OF SaxOny to Resign
Italian Troops being Dlsbanded
Maine Congressional Election
The King Of SaxOny to Resign
Italian Troops being DIsbanded

Southern -four firmer at $40 IS to SO 20,
wheat scarce, and 3 to &c higher pork
heavy, at 1913; lard heavy, at Is to 2Oac;
sugar steady; coffee firm; naval stores
quiet; turpentine, 67 to Csc; resin
SO so.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has
written another letter, explanatory of
his previous letter upon the Cleveland
!. Convention, and announcing himself as
opposed to the details of the Presidents
\ policy of reconstruction. He does not
modify his Cleveland epistle or disown
! it, but, on the contrary, he justi6es and
4 defends it. In regard to the New Or
leans not, he says that President John
son took the wrong side of an atrocious
4 massacre, and the shocking perversion
4 and mutlation of Sheridan's dispatches
need no Characterization. do not at
4 tribute this act to him, yet it was Of such
J, criminal and disgraceful nature, that
not to clear himself OF, it by exposure
4 and rebuke amounted to communion
I with the crime After this fact, what
shall say of speeches made in the
recent circuit of the Executive. Are
these ways of reconciliation.
\ New ORLEANS, September l0.-The
arrivals from Vera Cruz up to the 4th in
slant show, in the language Of the Mayor
of that place, that no twenty leagues
exist which are not traversed by guerrilla
bands The Mayor says the only remedy
is by determination.
The ST. Mary's Parish (La.) Banner
contains refutation of the late state
ment of outrages upon the negroes in
that region. The homicides were mostly
by negroes upon others, and in other
cases were established to the satisfaction
of the local Bureau officer to be justifa
bile and unavoidable
Cotton-sales, ESQ bales low middling
at 3l@32c; receipts, $40 bales bank
sterling, So; New York exchange, pre-
MUM; gold, 441.
There were twenty nine deaths from
cholera.
Arrived, Fung Shoy, from New York
sailed, General Grant, for New York
Vera Cruz dates of August 25th report
that Marshal Bazaine, in concentrating
forces at San Luis Potosi, mel General
Garcia with 10000 troops. 1t is sup
posed general engagement will take
place between San Luis Potosi and
Mexico Guerro's Liberal forces cut the
bridges at Chicahutia and Solidad; he
hen attacked Meditiri with his advance,
ifteen miles from Vera Cruz He sacked
The former city, containing 2500 inhabi-
ants, mostly French, razing the place to
he ground.
The gunboat Eugene was repulsed of
Tuspau Bay. The Liberals, under He
,ora, alec captured 200 French troops, at
Tuspau, and all stores
Gen Price is reported very i'll at Cor
ova
4 The colonists are hopeful for the fu-
are, whether under Imperial or Liberal
4 ule
N PORTLAND, Me-, September 10, pm
/. he Republican majority in this city was
bout 1000 in 1864, and in 1865 il was a
jhe less than that in the city. The
epublican canvass promised Lynch
100 majority in his district Portland
so far, ahead of the canvass Vote
the city light
PORTLAND, September 10, $50 pm.
he following election returns have been
ce;ved Portland-Lynch rep }, for
ongress, 1853; Sweat Dem. }, 1913. Re
iblican majority, $4,000 The follow
9 was the vote of 1864: Lynch, PISS;
Eeat, ISL; representative majority |
en-, $40, being net gain of 524 The
gregate vote is $50 less than in 1864,
'th gives Chamberlain, representative
. OOftihoi, cvV AdJOtAtg okahhSt Oof
{ year Cape Observation-Disclosures
n rep }, los majority against 80 last
ar; Bangor-Chamberlsin REP }, 9l6 |
jority against 10 last year; Yarmouth /!
Chamberlain rep, IA majority |
sinst So last year
WAsHIEGroE, September l0-Romero,
Mexican Minister, has returned from |
tour West with the Presidents party,
uewhat impaired in health, consequent
On the fatigue he endured.
The Receipts Of Internal Revenue to-
we're over two millions Of dollars
The lighthouse at Cape Romaine, S.
is to be re-established on the 29th |
iani.
fRESToS, September TO- A special
sion of the New Jersey Legislature
held to-day. Gov. Wards message
ommends the ratification Of the pro-
ed Constitutional Amendment, and
election Of a United States Senator
,rRrrx, September l0-The upper
se of the Prussian Diet has passed
bin TO indemnify the King for acting
iout the consent Of that Diet in the
Ter of the budget and army supplies
-. a. he war with Austria The |