Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-15
BY TELEGRAPH.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES

LONDON, October l3.--Consols 89i
5-20's, 70a; cotton sales of middling up.
lands at l5d; breadstuffs frmer; pro-
visions declining
New York, October l4.-Arrived,
steamers America from Southampton on
the third Malta from Liverpool on the
second, and City of Boston from Queens
town on the fourth the Champion from
Aspinwall.
Thirteen hundred passengers arrived
to-day on the steamers America and
City Of Boston.
The schooner Mary Ann Mc6ee was
sunk off West Bank, yesterday afternoon,
by the steamship Queen, which vessel
arrived last evening. No lives lost.
The foreign news to the 4th inst. con-
tains the following:
The steamers Hecla, Peruvian, and
Perry, had arrivedout
AT the banquet in honor Of the cable
layers, messages were received from the
Queen, comforting knighthood upon Cap
tain Anderson, Professor Thompson,
Messrs Glass and Cannird, and baro-
netcy upon Mr.. Sampson and Mr.. Gooche.
The Queen says her reason for not con-
ferring distinguished marks Of her favor
upon Cyrus w. Field, is an apprehension
that it might encroach npon the province
of his own Government.
Elections in various parts of England
are reported looking to the possible dis.
solution OF Parliament next spring
II is stated that the recent wet weather
in England destroyed tenth part OF the
whole crop
Woolwich arsenal was leveled TO the
ground by the explosion of gun cotton.
No lives were lost
1t is supposed that Lord Lyons sue
ceeds Earl Cowley at Paris. The case
of the seven Confederate vessels seized
as the property of the United States is
again postponed The inundation in
France is subsidng. Great damage has
been done by the food, and the Emperor
headed a subscription with hundred
thousand francs
The King of Hanover has protested to
all the Cabinets Of Europe against an.
nexation to Prussia, and appeals to all
the powers against oppression.
Insurrection in Gambia is still pro-
crossing and the insurgents are march
Ing rpon the city of Gambia. The Porte
has recognized Prince Charles AS Hos
podar. The French Minister has pro-
tested against Turkey ceding bay ports
in the gulf Of Egina either to the United
States or Russia
We substitute the following for the ca
bic dispatch, which came around last
night BY the blunder Of several words
left ont, and the correction was not re-
ceiyed until today
LIVERPOOL. October l3-The cotton
market to- day is active. Sales to-day OF
20, 600 bales Of middling uplands at I'D,
The weather is again unfavorable. and
the breadstuf market is firmer for wheat
and corn. The provision market is dull,
with declining tendency.
LONDON, October l3--Consols closed
at s9i. The closing prices for Ameri-
can stocks we're: United States 5-2Gs,
7Ol Erie railway, 494 Illinois Central,
7ss. =,
LIVERPOOL, October lathe steam
shin Java from New York, October Sd,
has arrived. The ship Chancellor Jones
from New York, September 18th, has ar
rived
New York, October Alt appears
from the monthly report Of the Board Of
Health, that there has been thus far only
one death from Asiatic cholera in this
city.
Ii appears the Philadelphia Ledger $
Washington correspondent obtained his
information about the alleged questions
Of the President, concerning the status
of Congress from H. NJ. Flint, better
known as Druid, who is one Of the three
OF four persons who aid the regular cor
respondent in procuring Washington
news. Flint made contradictory state.
ments, the last one being that somebody
in Office told him that another person
had told the person in Office that he, the
other person, said that be had seen the
paper, and that his informant about
an alleged conversation in the White
House between the President and an in
innate friend, said that the intimate
friend had told another friend, who had
told still another person, and that this
fourth person had related the CONVERSE
ton to Flint, who framed the questions
in his own words as if they we're actually
those of the President The Ledger
says, if it had known the dispatch was
manufactured by Flint it would not have
appeared in that paper. All the facts
and circumstances Of this shameful fraud
have been fully explained to the Presi-
dent
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