Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-01
BY TELEGRAPH.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES

New ORLEANS, August 81. = Cotton
sales, 300 bales, low middling at 80 to 34c.
Weeks receipts, 1900 bales, against
l479 last week stock l03, 600. Gold, 1854;
sterling, 50; New York exchange par.
The Mississippi Cotton Growing Asso-
citation correct the deductions made from
their last report, and say they expect
not over 100000 bales in Mississippi
and not over 100000 throughout the
country.
The tendency as to disease, cholera,
is steadily abating. Continued but slow
increase of fever. The freedmen being
proportonaly the greatest sufferers. The
Bureau, in this respect, seems to give
little or no attention to freedmen.
ST LOUIS August 81 Eight cemete-
res report thirty-seven internents
yesterday.
Flour dull; buyers demand conces-
sions wheat declined. sales at 81 p
(a$2 30; corn dull mixed and yellow,
6lc; white, 73c; oats quiet at 39c; pro-
visions and whiskey unchanged
New YORK, August 3l.-Cotton quiet;
sales of 1900 bales middling at 33G35 &c !;
sos, III; 10 4O's, lO2; gold, l474.
The steamer Arizona has arrived
from Aspiuwall with one million three
hundred thousand dollars in treasure.
The revolution is progressing
Coffee is unfavorably affected by late
European aJyices. e
The news from Marepoza is to the %
inst The e'ty was being strongly f5rti-
fed
The Government Of Chli has ratified
the loan Of siG millions Of dollars
Admiral Tuckss sss taken command
Of the allied nsyy.
A p-.....sew OF Gov. Wise arrived here
Yesterday. with aa order trom Maj. Geo.
Sehcheld. commanding the Department
of Virginia. 10 recover all personal prop
erty that could be found A considera-
bic portion was found in possession OF
different persons, who we're quickly and
rather uneeremoHieusly dispossessed.
LITTLE FAILS, N Y, August 1.-THE
President has met with enthusiastic
receptions alt along the line He was
welcomed al Schenectady, Utica and
other places. AT the first named place
he said all the Departments Of the
Government had done their duty, except
the legislature, and be expected the peo-
pie 10 do theirs at the approaching
election
WAsHlKGToS, August 81 = Secretary
Harlan retired to-day from the Depart
ment of the Interior, the employees Of
which presented him with service of
silver and FURNISHED gold. Mr.. Brown
ing, his successor, takes the position to-
morrow
SAN FRANcIsco, August 3l--Mexican
advices state that Macmillan has levied
two forced loans on the residents of
Gusymas, amounting to twenty-seven
thousand dollars.
A French man-ofwar recently seized
the American bark Francis Palmer, un,
der pretence that she was loading gusno
without a permit and carried her to
Mazatlan. Admiral Fletcher will send
the Saranac and Shawnee to investigate
the matter.
AUBURN, n. Y, Augusr3l The Pres
ident was warmly received here, and be
made speech.
LONDON, August 3l-In consequence
of further representation made to the
Home Government by the Canadian au-
thorities relative to further anticipated
troubles from the Fenians in the United
States, there is probability Of another
cavalry regiment being sent from Liver
pool to Quebec.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 80. Mr. Fox,
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy, has
been presented by the peasants Of Russia
with an address, expressive of their fra
ternal feeling for the United States.
PRAGUE, August 3l-The notifications
of the peace treaty have been confirmed,
and its provisions will now be enforced
QUEENSTOWN, August 81 -TheAdyices
received here of the action of the Phila-
delphia Convention have materially ad-
vanced the price of U. S bonds
LIvERPooL, August 3l.-Cotton, dull /;
sales for the week, $4,000 bales market
opened at l3ld for middling. Consols
opened at 500 for money 5-20s, 49,,
VIEEgA, August 3l-Ihe Emperor
Francis Joseph has, as a measure Of
economy, dismissed large portion of
his retinue
LIVERPOOL, August 81, p.m.-The cot
ton market is without change Prices
are steady; middling uplands, l3ld
sales to-day Of 10000 bales The bread
stuff market is quiet and unchanged /;
Western mixed corn, 26s 3D. The pro-
vision market is dull and unchanged
The tallow market is active, and prices
are steady
LONDON, August 3l.-The Times Of
to-day, in a lengthy editorial, congratu-
lates- President johnson and the people
Of the United States on the deliberations
and action Of the Philadelphia Couven-
ton, detailed accounts Of which we're re-
ceived BY steamer yesterday.
MUxIcB, August 3l-Ihe Bavarisn
Chambers have formally approved the
treaty Of peace concluded with Prussia
by the plenipo;entiaries Of the King
ST. PErERsBURG, August 3l-The En-
peror Alexander has gwen a grand ban
ouet in honor Of the Embassy from the
United States, at which the prominent
dignitaries Of the Empire were present
The Empire gave the toast, The pros
perity and consolidation Of the United
States