Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-11-06
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MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
LATEST FROM ALL QUARTERS

BALTIMORE, November 5.-Judge Bar
ton has decided that the warden would
have three days to return the writ.
An establishment containing 100 boxes
of fire arms and ammunition was seized
to-day by the police. Resistance was
made to the seizure, and one man was
shot.
Gen. Grant, acting in private capac-
ity, has made the following proposition
TO the old commissioners, which it is sup
posed will be accepted, viz: That the
Conservatives here have one judge OF
election and one cleck in each precinct,
and, according to the registry law, have
boxes for rejected ballots, one to be
placed at every precinct. Grant was ac-
ting as the representative of Gov. Swami
in the matter. All quiet at present, and
no trouble is apprehended.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 5.-There was
considerable excitement at Fort Erie last
night in expectation of Fenian raid.
The cause of the panic seems to have
been the arrival of the U. S. steamer
Michigan, which has come to restore the
Fenian arms captured last June, and
the Fenian demonstration ON Sunday
afternoon, when several prominent Fe-
mans made speeches.
ToRoYTo, Nov. 5.-Mr. Homsdon, the
Prosecuting Attorney for the Crown, In
the Fenian trials, received letter to-day
giving information Of plot to assassi-
nate Judge Wilson and others concerned
in the Fenian trials. Considerable reli-
gious luminosity is shown regarding the
proceedings. The fact that Lumsden, a
Protestant, was acquitted, while Nc
Mahon, a Catholic, was convicted, is
specially commented upon.
New YORK, November 5.-Judge Gil
bert has decided, in the supreme court
ofKings county, that the fact Of citizen
having served in the Confederate army
does not deprive him of the right to vote
in this State. The question was decided
in case where Augustus Wheeler APP
piled for a mandamus to compel the reg
istrars of the first district Of the seven
teenth ward of Brooklyn to register his
name in order that he be able to vote
on Tuesday next Wheeler admitted
having served as surgeon in the Con-
federate army, and for that reason his
name was refused. The Judge said:
"The inclination in my mind is very
strong TO work his Acknowledgement, but
cannot find any authority to doso The
fact Of his having been rebel, the war
being over, and he being no longer in
arms against the Government, so far as
| can discern, has deprived him Of no
right or immunity whatever. 1t has only
subjected him to punishment for trea-
SON" The decision concluded with the
issuance of the mandamus compelling
the registrar to receive his name.
Affidavits TO prove the innocence OF
the Rev. Mr. Mcmahon, now under sen
tence ofdea,h in Toronto, have been for
warded to Washington.
WAsHIyGrox, November 5. Simon
Draper is dead.
Mr.. Romero has received letter dated
Vera Cruz, 25th ult, via New Orleans,
stating that Macmillan left the city of
Mexico on the 23d, resigning verbally in
favor of Gen. Bazaine.
VIM. Wales, editor Of the Baltimore
Commercial, has been appointed sur
veyor of the port of Baltimore, vice Full
ton, removed.
Gen. Thomas Ewing, Jr., counsel for
the Cherokee Indians in the late treaty
made between that tribe and the United
States, and who protested against the
sale Of the Cherokee neutral lands by the
Secretary Of the Interior, has written
reply to Harlan recent letter defending
his (Harlan's) action in the matter.
Recruiting for the various colored reg
iments is going on nicely.
New ORLEANS, November 5.-Browns-
Vile dates to the I'd inst, City of Mex
leo to the 10th ult, and Vera Cruz to
the 18th, received. On the 3lst ult there
was diminishing between Canales and
Tapia. The latter has his lines Of attack
well established. A large number Of Or
teganists are awaiting his arrival at
Brownsville. Caravajal and Canales are
the only chiefs in his favor.
The La CrOnica says the Empress
mission to France was to demand officers
for the Imperial army organizing in
Mexico. She has been completely sue
cessful in all respects. The Emperor is
taking the offensive in all parts Taxes
are collected without trouble. The En-
peror has issued a decree con6scating
the property of non-residents, and all
who openly or covertly aid the Liberals.
De La Hayza, of the Imperial army,
had defeated 500 Liberals near Vera
Cruz, taking 200 prisoners. Business is
very good in Vera Cruz, and the Empire
is paying debts as fast as presented
Canales and Tapia were negotiating,
but could not agree, as Canales was on
"big drunk" and unable to attend to
business.
The French regiments announced as