Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-28
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New York, January 27.-But few cases
relative to the excise law we're before the
court yesterday. Licenses were freely
applied for and granted.
Six chiefs Of the Fenian organization
left for Havre. Stephens is still supposed
to be one of the number.
Benjamin Muller, convicted ofsteaGng
letters with checks in them, while pass
ing through the postoffice, was yesterday
sentenced to ten years in the Peniten
tiary.
The case of Rev. Geo. I. Williams,
arrested in November last, for picking
ladys pocket, had his case sent to the
Grand Jury.
WASHINGTON, January 27.-The Ways
and Means Committee yesterday ap-
pointed Messrs. Hooper, Allison and
Hogan a subcommittee to consider the
subject of the whiskey tax, with instruc-
tons to report early next week.
W. H. Hughes, North Carolina mer-
chant, arrived yesterday under arrest,
charged with obtaining $4,000 worth of
goods from leading New York merchants
under false pretenses.
The accident on the Morrison and Els
sex railroad, New Jersey, yesterday, re-
suited in badly injuring the conductor,
engineer, and more or less bruising a
number of passengers.
The steamers City of Boston and Hester,
frem Liverpool, have arrived; the for
mer brings Cork papers of the 18th. No
news
The steamer Santiago de Cuba, from
Greytown, arrived to.day with San Fran
cisco dates of the 9th.
The grand jury of Hudson county have
made presentment against the Weehaw-
ken Ferry Company, because they run
but one boat, which, being DID, endangers
the lives of passengers, and other charges.
Stephens has not yet started for Eu
rope
New ORLEANS, January PA very
recent official letter from Florida says
that the Indians inhabiting the Ever
glades are determined to keep negroes
in their tribes. The slaves claim liberty
sand have appealed to the military for
protection. 1t is reported that the freed
men throughout Florida are renewing
contracts. Emigration is still going on
from New Orleans and Virginia for the
purpose of obtaining employment or col
onizing on the south side of st. Johns
river.
General Ely has arrived from South
Carolina with eight hundred freedmen
for the colonization agencies in the
southern part of the State. He seems
to be very unpopular.
A serious difficulty occurred in Fernan.
dina, in which twenty-six citizens re-
sisted the seizure by the Sheriff Of some
property that had been sold for taxes.
The Sheriff was driven Off He applied
to the Governor for troops. The Gov
ernor having no men asked interference
Of the United States forces. Colonel
Sprague declined, and the Governor APP
piled to the President All quiet The
authorities are awaiting instructions
Receipts from custom for the past
week, SlS2,OOO
LOUISVILLE, January 27.-Thomas J.
Silcott, of Virginia, clerk at the Nash
vile depot, was killed there yesterday,
being accidentally run over by locomo-
tive.
One of the wrecked barges of coal
which broke away from Cincinnati few
days since, is on FIRE at the head of the
falls The coal, some fifteen thousand
bushels, will probably be entirely con-
snmed.
The river is falling very slowly.
The Darling, Tempest and Hodge went
over the falls this afternoon.
The Hodge loads at Portland for New
Orleans, and leaves as soon as the I'm
derwriters permit her. The Tempest
and Darling, it is said, viii leave without
such permission. Underwriters are
,ba-r,rrr 81 No. rs,t Er,r,a Eio~a e.,
Nashville, Trenton, for St. Louis, J. H.
Groesbeck, for New Orleans The tow
boat Liberty No. 4, arrived, and is lying
at the foot Of Canal street, waiting to get
through
Weather clear. Mercury Is degrees
above zero. Barometer 1888 and rising
SAY FEASoIsCo, January IL Senior
Godery, the Mexican Consul, has re
ceived q letter from President Juarez,