New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-21
NUMBER 1856.
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES.
LIVERPOOL COTTON QUOTATIONS
AN ADVANCE IN EGYPTIAN COTTON
RIVER NEWS, ETC, ETC
LAssoeia.sd Press Dispatches.l


VIcxsBuEa, March 2o.-Tbe steamer Swallow
passed up at P. NJ, and the Blackford and City Of
Memphis at 2P.A. .s
The Stonewa passed down at p. n. River
rising.
New YORK, March 20.-The steamer Peruvian
reports that the Egyptian descriptions of cotton
advanced } to Id, during the business week ending
the 9th instant.
1.-THE lines are interrupted tonight by the prevail
ing storm. a .u.=
tFrom Yesterdays Evening PapersJ
PORTLAND, Me-, March 20.-The steamer Peru
Wan, from Liverpool the 8th, via Greencastle the
9th, has arrived at this port.
In the House Of Commons the annual bill for the
abolition of the church rates. passed 70 second
reading by $50 against 252. Loud cheers greeted
the announcement. 1t is thought the vote indlea-
ted an early solution Of the question, although at
present it will doubtless be rejected by the HOUSE
Of Lords, as usual.
LIVERPOOL, March 9.-The cotton sales for the
week amounted to 1000 bales. The sales to-day
were 10000, including 1000 to spectators and
exporters.
The authorized quotations are as follows: Or
leans fair 2Ofd; Orleans Iniddling l9{d.; Mobile
fair 2Od.; Middling Mobile l9d.; Upland fair l94d;
Middling Up!ands lssd.
The stock in port sums up 267 600 bales, lnciId-
ing 204 900 of American descriptions.
The Manchester markets are active and adyan-
cling.
Breadstufs market, very dull, except the corn
Provisions firm. Lard looking up. a
LONDON, March 9.-Consos s62. United States
5-2O's 70b
NEw York, March 20-Tfe Herads Toronto
special says battery left Ottowa for the frontier
on Saturday. The organization of new com
panies is progressing The alarm is unapated.
| Everybody now believes that the Fenians mean
desperate attempt 10 obtain Canada. very little
confidence is placed on the neutrality professions
of the American government. The authorities
feel that they can expect no sympathy from the
| United States.
Havana adyices by the Manhattan state that the
numerous fires throughout the island are attributed
to negro incendiaries
! The royal commission reported further progress
of the royal commission investigation of the
Jamaica revolt. The evidence, it is said. shows
! that the affair was a deliberately organized rebel
lion, with the ultimate design of numbering or
driving from the island all the white people OF
n Jamaica, with the design of the annexation Of
b that island to the United States.
Il Sixty persons III Hayti have been arrested,
charged with being concerned in the revolutionary
movements of that Republic. 1t was supposet
twenty would be executed.
The Herald's Rio Janeiro correspondent say
J immense preparations are making for battle il
c the River Platte war. The allied army of Para
t guayans and Uruguayans, aggregating $4,000. wit
q naval fleet on the bank of the Paraguay Rivel
!: was near Pass de Sapatre, controlled on tn
!, north side by two thousand Paraguayans in defer
sive works of great strength. Defensive works {
great strength, however, neutraiize the advai
S Iage.
The allies design soon to attempt the passage
the river.
4 A desperate struggle is expected. Skrmishin
e had occurred. The allies repused the Paraguar
!. with small loss
h ToRoNTo, March 2O-It is reported plot hf
Y been discovered to blow up drill shed above
J. large city sewer.
), New YoRE, March 2o-The Central Council
y Fenans are in secret session in Union Squar
Funds and rifles are still flowing in. 1t is reporte
fGMahOnay sent
It men to some point unknown Gen. Sweeney
force is estimated at SO 800, expecting the numbe
l. will be doubled before the month closes.
Vera Cruz advices show the promised lmperit
f pacication to be as far as ever of being accom-
=. plished. The Republicans maintain the conques
t, ssubbornya and energetcally. There is no apparer
y intention of the French yet to withdraw Mendez
victory over the Republicans in Aichoacan is sal
. to be much more important than at first reported
% Mendez says he fought hard battle with sewers
g. chiefs combined, and his own losses were severe
The Republicans are in force threatening Tan
y, pico, which the Imperials occupy. The lmperia
lists in the Pacific States are still confined to te
ports. The Republicans have made three attacl
Is upon the garrison of Mazatlan within five week
ID Lieut.. Maury, Maximilians Colonization Mini
4. ter, has left for England
vs. PORTLAND Me-, March 2O.-The Peruvian brin
the following additional news:
satterthwaite's circular of the 7th says Il
dealings in American securities are limited.
T The Prussian government had sent Vienna
G, remptory summon in regard to Holstein. Dc
v mark is ready to enforce war.
k LIVERPOOL, March 9.--The public feeling is de
D about reform.
a; Flour dull and nominal wheat quiet and steaG
I'd corn very dull and declined S.. beef active a
c firm bacon firm and quiet.
e; Lard improved. Sugar firm, Coffee quiet q
IS, steady.
n, LoHDoN March 9.-Tea firm. Rice quiet. sue
N fat. Coffee tirmer. Tallow upward.
Fl meeting of the Atlantic Telegraph Compa
j unanimously approved the arrangement OF the
c rectors for laying the cable this year.
ID, NEW YoRk, March 20, II M.--Cotton quiet a
arl unchanged. Gold 1888. Sterling exchange act
ty, at 1919.
10, The steamer Manhattan, from Vera Cruz the 7
has arrived.
ul- The schooner Matilda, with 375 negroes, /
; J been captured and brought into Havana.
ia; hundred of them had been sold at Cape Ante
G as slaves.
W A French bark had arrived at Havana with
er, coolies
.on A dispatch received by Col. Shackleford, Pl
dent of the New Orleans Jackson and Great No
ek ern Railroad, this morning, is as follows
La CANTON, MISS, March l9.--Wi complete
" remainder of the road tomorrow.
u E. D. FROST,
W Superintendent Mississippi Central Railroa
Ter . nv -