Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-19
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LATEST FROM ALL QUARTERS

WASHINGTON, January lS.-General ID.
Sewell has been ordered to North Carp
lima to report on the approaching prac-
tees of the courts. Governor Worth will
appoint Commissioner to act with him,
and they will report simultaneously to
General Howard and the North Carolina
Legislature.
The Internal Revenue receipts we're
only $3OS, 600 to day.
Bradley f. Johnson, Of Richmond, for
merly a General in the Confederate
States army, was admitted to practice in
the Supreme Court to-day, under the rule
abolishing the test oath.
LONDON, January Is, m.-The morn
ing papers make mention Of a rumor
that the Great Powers have resolved to
urge the Sublime Porte to call confer
ence to take the vexed Eastern question
into consideration.
PEsTH, January l8.-The Upper
House of the Hungarian Diet has unan-
imously passed the Dukes address
FLORENCE, January S.-The Italian
Finance Minister confirms the announce
ment that the Government intends to
tax the Church property to the amount
of six hundred million livres.
NJ. Fanelliers mission to Rome rela-
tive to the Bishops has been satisfacto-
rily ended. He will soon take leave of
the Pope and depart
LONDON, January l8.-It is reported
from the Continent that desperate
plot to assassinate the Pasha of Egypt
has been discovered. The plot included
the subversion of the government, and
investing the reins of government in the
hand of Selim, Pacha, who is said to
be at the head Of the movement The
conspiracy has been happily frustrated
The banquet extended to J. G. Ben
nett, Jr., came off last evening Mr..
Kingsley, son of the former Vice
Commander Of the New York Yacht
Club, presided. General Dix, the Amer
lean Minister, was present 1t was
grand affair, as was also the ball at the
Tuileries on Wednesday evening. The
Emperor and Empress personally con-
graduated Mr.. Bennett on his victory.
LIVERPOOL, January lS-pm.-Sales
of cotton to-day we're $4,000 bales,
though Notwithstanding the activity of
the market, prices are unchanged.
LIVERPOOL, January Is, noon.-The
Brokers Circular reports the sales of
cotton for the past week, ending last
evening, at AZ 600 bales. There has been
a decline of I'd in prices during the week
The market to-day opened dull, with a
prospective days sale Of 5000 bales The
following are the authorized quotations
Middling uplands, l44d; Orleans, l5sd
LONDON, January Is, noon.-United
States bonds, 72s consols, sO@9Os
ToRoSTO, January lS.-A gunboat has
been stationed in Niagara river, at Kings
ton, permanently. as a precaution against
the FenianS
NV ORLEANS, Jan. l8.-The weather
is clear and growing cold. Business is
active, and the river is receding slowly.
The steamer W. G. Lewis, from ST.
Louis, and the Magenta, fom Yicksburg.
have arrived. No departures.
BALTIMORE, January ls-No trains
have arrived since last night Naviga-
ton is entirely suspended, as the ice in
the harbor is ten inches thick
LOUISVILLE, January l8.-The river is
rising and full Of ice. Seven feet ten
inches in the canal Steamboa,men
think that the river viii be stationary by
morning. II not there is danger Of
sinking many coal boats all along the
river, as ice in some cases is drifting in
tiers six feet thick. The weather is
cloudy. Mercury, 2Os; barometer, 2. so.