Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-29
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were more pacific rumors from Parls,
and the chances of Congress were
improving. 1t is asserted that Prus-
STA and Italy had assented to the Aus
TRAN reply not being received.
A Trieste despatch of the 10Th says
the Austrian volunteers about to pro
coed to Mexico, will, it is stated, sail
under the French flag.
COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL, May 17.-Cotton was
weak. the sales of two days were 49,
900 bales; middling uplands, 134d,
Consols, SCI. United States 5,2Os
658@66.
The financial panic continued sensi-
bly, to subside, though many difficulties
are yet anticipated, but it is believed
that the effects will be less disastrous
than those of former panics. Lead
ing securities had decidedly improved.
The discount demand at the Bank of
England continued extremely large
The nominal rate remained at 10 per
cent. There was also an active spe-
Gle demand for the continent.
There had been no additional sus-
pension at Liverpool.
LATEST Vta QUEENsTowN.- Fernie
Brothers, of Liverpool, have suspend,
ed with heavy liabilities, but their as
sets are considerably in excess of what
their suspension is reported
More failures are reported.
We find the following dispatches in
New Orleans papers of the 9th
WASHINGTON, May 26.-It is stated
the Senatorial Committee have failed
to agree on the Constitutional Amend
ment as reported from the Reconstruc-
ton Committee tits considered prac-
tically dead.
New YORK, May 26.-From Janu-
ary to the time of the PASSPORT fiasco,
$50, 900 were received by O'Mahony,
of which $4,000 were sent to Ireland.
The remaining S130,000 have been
spent here.
ST. LOUIS, May 26.-The resolutions
on the state of the country, adopted
by the New School Assembly, yester-
day, are quite radical, but utter no
word directly against the President
They rejoice at the continued functions
of tie Freedmen's Bureau, and espe-
cially at the passage of the Civil Rights
bill, and reiterate the position taken
by them last year on the question of
negro suffrage, claiming if it be not
universal, it ought at lerst to be impair
tial. These resolutions also allege
that, for the vindication of national
justice, the fomenters and representa-
tives of the rebellion should by due
process of law be consigned to punish
ment
The large wholesale drug store of
Peter E. Blow, on Main street, and the
stationery establishment of R. P.
STANDBY d Co., were burned to day,
causing loss of S150,O00.
New YORK, May 26-EurOpean ad
vices TO the 10Th inst, by the arrival
of the Saxonia and America, are re
ceived.
The cholera has appeared near the
depot of Bank, Hall, in Liverpool.
The number Of deaths is increasing
DR.. Rose and three emigrants died on
the steamship Helvetia.
A European Congress is again moot
ed. France will join it with perfect
disinterestedness.
La France says many diplomatic
notes have been exchanged between
the cabinets. The idea of the Con
gress is to be limited to the considera-
ton of the pending question.
LOpinion National says if formal
proposals would be made for a Euro
pean Congress, Italy could accept il
E on two conditions, viz that she may
remain armed, and that the cession OF
Venetia be included in the programme
of the Congress. These conditions
are essential, but war is imminent
Military preparations have beer
commenced. Darmstadt has beer
; placed on a war foo ting.
The Prussian Ambassador said he
should leave Immediately, in conse
quence of the Austrians occupying
the frontiers of Bohemia, Silesia ant
Parma, and declined the settlement
proposed BY Austria in reference tc
the duchies.
1t is reported Prussia has summon
ed Hanover for warlike preparations
and announced her intention of Ooeu
plying her military roads
= The latest Berlin dispatch says {
treaty of alliance has been signed be
tween Italy and Prussia.
Cantonments are forming at Leicth
feldt and Nuremberg for the Bavariar
army.
Garibaldi has accepted the com
mand of the volunteers, declaring the
hope to cooperate with the glorious
army of Italy in accomplishing the
destinies ofnations.
Trieste kilograms say the Italian
squadron has taken position in the
Adriatic, closing the Gulf of Trieste
and threatening Venice, Trieste and
other ports
A garrison from Vienna had depart
ed for Bohemia
Twenty two thousand Austrian troops
have been sent north. The Austrian
Mexican legion has been disbanded
The financial panic is over, and no
more failures have occurred. The
Bank of England has refused to make
advances.
French rents rule at 65f. 66c.
The London Shipping Gazette, OF
the evening of the 10Th, announces
: that the Bank of England raised the
: interest for advances on stock to IL
per cent in consequence of the great
pressure for assistance in this shape
on speculative amounts in stock ex-
change. The demand for discount
| accommodations was active at the Bank
The directors are st.iving hard not tc
infringe upon the charter by taking
: advantage of the power granted them
: by the Government. Hallet, O'Manny
d Lea, bankers, and Griffith & Boston
stock brokers, have suspended Sew.
eral failures have been reported from
Liverpool. The liabilities of Wake
7 field, Nash d Co., amount to f200
600, and of Penny & Co., to f14O,OOO
: | with accafc of nnIu con OO0