Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-12-07
BY TELEGRAPH,
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
LATEST FROM ALL QUARTERS


bill, which has already passed the House
and is now pending in the Senate, pro
yides that in all cases where a citizen
of the United States, who had always
remained loyal thereto, and did not give
voluntary aid and comfort to the rebel
lion, shall bring action to recover DANA
ges for injury to person or property,
the action shall not be defeated on the
ground that the offense was committed
on Confederate authority. Both Houses
have adjourned until Monday.
George W. Branner, photographic
reporter on the Eceniag Star, cut his
throat to-day. He had been for some
weeks laboring under great nervous ex-
element
The Elective Franchise of the District
will be taken up Monday and an effort
made to put it to vote. An amend
ment is proposed coupling the enfran-
chsement of negroes with the disfran-
chisement of those whites who comforted
the rebellion.
General Grant, up to seven o'clock
this evening, has had no word confirm
ing the Cincinnati Commercial dispatch
from Brownsville. Gen. Sheridan was
to be in Brownsville on Tuesday last
If the report should be true, Grant says
Sedgwick will be arrested and punished.
1t will be gratifying to his numerous
friends here to know that Major NJ. W.
Barr, late of the appeal, has been ap-
pointed Agent of the United States and
European News Association at Washing
ton, to compile the reports for the South
ern Press.
An official dispatch, dated Los Ange-
los, California, 4th, says that the Indian
Superintendent, G. w. Sickley, and W.
Z. Everett, his clerk, were murdered by
the Navajos and Apaches on the 18th of
November.
CINCINNATI, Dec. Ga special to the
Commercial from Brownsvilles Nov.
Both, says Gen. Sedgwick, on the oath,
made a formal demand for the immed-
ale surrender of Matamoros, which was
acceded to. and Canales occupies the
Notifications, while the American flag
floats over the city. A sufficient number
of troops occupy the city, to render occu-
patton secure.
Escobedo attacked Canales on the 9th,
and desperate battle ensued, lasting
three hours, and resulting in the defeat
of Escobedo, with loss Of coo prisoners,
including General Esperora. Canales
lost seventy.fve men. Escobedo lays
his defeat to the interference of the
United States troops
Another dispatch says: Escobedo at
tackled Canales in Matamoros on Tuesday
morning, at half past FIVE o'clock, but
fell back after two hours desperate strug-
Cling. One cause of his defeat was the
occupation Of Matamoros, some days
before, by body Of American troops,
who relieved Canales of the care Of the
city, and left him to use his force in de-.
Tending the Notifications. Escobedo in
dignantly complains Of the action of
General Sedgwick. He expects rein
forcements when he will renew the attack,
meanwhile the American flag floats with
in the beseiged city.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 6.-Advices from
the interior of the State say that the
people, though disappointed in the crops,
this season, the worst for twenty years,
to the amount Of land planted, are
about to start early for the crop Of 81.
1t is likely less land will be planted
partly for want of reliable labor, and
also for want of means-but there will
be more diversified farming. The great
est quietude exists as to political mat
tiers, which are hardly alluded to, even
by party papers.
The colored organ here to-day again
signifies its disapprobation of the dis
franchisement Of Southern rebels, and
its want of confidence in Southern white
Unionists, and instances Missouri and
Tennessee as examples
A special to the Mobile Times from
Montgomery, says Governor Patton, in a
special message to the Legislature Of
Alabama, to-day, recommends the adOp-
ton Of the constitutional amendment,
which caused considerable excitement
The message was referred to the Com
nittee on Federal Relations.
ToRoSro, December 5-Janes Nc
Dewitt was arrested here to-day for sedi-