Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-14
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MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
LATEST FROM ALL QUARTERS

CAIRO, january 10. Aho iSo aus
disappeared in the Ohio, and Is getting
sof. in the Mississippi, with five and a
half feet scant to St. Louis.
Boats are leaving for up the OHIO To-
day. There is q prospects OF the dlssis'
sippi opening Thermometer, thirty
eight. Weather cloudy and threatening
rain. Business dull.
WAsuINaroN, January l3.-The opin-
ion of the Supreme Court OF the uni'ea
States is to be delivered to morrow. II
is based on the question presented IN the
case, ca parte, of Maer, Of Louisiana, and
Garland, Of Arkansas, who, having par
ticipated with the South in the late war,
ask to be re.admitted to practice at the
ba. of that tribunal, and involving more
particularly the copstitutionality OF the
law extending to attorneys in the oni-
ted States Courts the provisions OF the
act Of July, 1862, which requires a test
oath of civil, military and naval oihcers'
with penalties for perjury.
LONDON, January l3.-The London
Globe has an editorial in which it says
the Eastern question has become so
pressing that it demands the immediate
attention of the European powers. IL Is
the opinion of the Globe that general
conference of the leading powers will De
proposed on the subject
Adyices from the East report that an
instruction is on the point OF breaking
out in Bosnia.
BERLIN, January l3.-The North Ger
man Gazette denies that Bismarck has
issued any diplomatic circular, as was
recently reported.
TRIESTE, January IA motion has
heen introduced into the Hungarian
Diet declaring that the decree lately
issued for the reorganization of the army
is void, and that all who order its execu-
ton shall be punished for treason.
BoRDEAux, January l3.-The French
bark Orizaba, Captain Bertrand, which
sailed from New Orleans on the 18th OF
November for this port, went ashore on
the Gironde and became a total wreck.
LIVERPOOL, January l3.-The steam
ship Helvetia, which left New York, De-
cember 29th, has arrived out
United States iye-twenties at Frank
fort, 755.
LONDON, January 10, evening ga re-
port from Madrid states that Garibaldi
has gone to the island Of Gambia.
PARIS, January 10, p.m.-Dispatches
from the East report that ministerial
crisis has taken place at Constantinople.
Also, the Porte has recalled his Ambas-
sador from Athens. 1t is also reported
that a large number Of reinforcements
for the Greek insurgents have been land
ed in Gambia from Greek ships, and that
the Cretans are receiving fresh supplies
of arms again.
ST. PETERSBURG, January l3.-The
Gear and members of the Imperial Court
were present at the ball lately given in
aid of the suffering families Of he Gre
tans.
LONDON, January l3.-Advices from
China report that great fire had occur
red at Yokohama, Japan, caIalng loss
of five millions of dollars.
New YORK, January l3.-The steamer
Herman Livingston has arrived from
Savannah.
LOUISVILLE, January l3.-The Journal
tomorrow will contain substantially the
following:
Two families of Carter county, East
Tennessee, named Robenrts and John
ston, have been waging bloody war
between each other for twenty, years.
During this time fourteen men belonging
to these two families have lost their lives,
and on the evening Of the 9th inst, the
vendetta came to bloody end in the
streets Of Elizabethtown, by the two sole
sury,y,-y males of the Roberts and
Johnssons engaging in a personal alter
cation, which resulted fatally TO both.
This domestic war originated about q
dozen fence rails.
NASHVILLE, Jan. h. = The Radical
State Convention to nominate candi
date for Governor will meet on the 22d
of February. A number of counties in
East Tennessee recommend the rensmi.
nation Of Brownlow.
Chancellor Campbell yesterday de
cided the law providing for a Metropol
itan Police organization for Nashville
to be unconstitutional, and granted
perpetual injunction against the Polio
Commissioners. An appeal was take
to the Supreme Court, now in session.
CINCINNATI, January l3.-River sta
tionary, with five feet scant in the chan
mel There was rain on Saturday night
and on Sunday morning rotted ice wa
abundant
Steamboatmen consider it safe to yer
ture out Probably the Board of Under
writers viii remove their prohibition Il
morrow againgt steamers sailing. Lare
amounts Of freight have accumulated 1
every point between here and Cairo.
Mercury, IS deg. Barometer, 29a
aud rising