Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-27
THE NEWS,

An international anti slavery congress
is in session at Paris.
NJ. Velpean, the eminent French ply
stefan, is reported dead.
Dispatches from the plains show the
cholera to have made frightful havoc
among the troops during the past month.
Our cable dispatches represent that
the reports of the insurrectionary up
rising in the Spanish provinces are very
conflicting and unreliable.
The interference of Omar Pacha barely
prevented an engagement between
Turkish and Russian man-of.war of the
coast of Gambia on the oath.
The Holy Land excursionists'wSre at
Odessa yesterday.
A conference has been arranged be-
tween King William and the sovereigns
of the South German States, to be held
at Baden at an early day.
The President this morning issued an
order removing satrap Sickles from the
command of the Second Military District
and appointing Generd Candy in his
stead.
There were sixty.nine deaths from
yellow ever and six from cholera in
New Orleans last week
The famous Escobedo letter, it is re-
ported, was forgery.
Mariana Zeiger, German woman,
seventy.eight years of age, was burned to
death in New Orleans, on Saturday, by
her mosquito bar accidentally catching
on fire from q candle by her bed.
The rumor which gained circulation
yesterday to the effect that there had
been a general resignation on the part OF
the Cabinet is pronounced utterly untrue.
The French and Spanish Ministers
have returned to Washington from visit
10 Fortress Monroe and Yorktown, Va.
Assistant Secretary of State +. W.
Seward returned to Washington yester-
day from a brief absence in the East.
There we're one hundred and fifty
three deaths from yellow fever in Gal
weston last week and twenty.six on Sat
urday.
The text of Gen. Grants reply to the
President, relative to changes in the
military districts, appears among our
kilograms.
Ex.President Buchanan has been pro-
nouuced out of danger, though still con-
fined to his bed.
There wers GAO deaths in New York
last week.
A Washington dispatch says 1t is
charged that General Howard desires to
make the Freedmen's Bureau perma-
nent institution, and that he is seek
ing through Congress to perpetuate
it beyond the time fixed by the act
creating it. A incorporation Of the
funds is also alleged against him.
With the official returns all in, it seems
Kentucky gave Governor Helm a ma
jority of 1909 over both Of his Oppo-
nents at the late election.
The carpenters and canlkers at the
Cairo dry docks are upon strike for an
advance Of wages.
The election for members Of ParliA
ment, in the new dominion Of Canada,
takes place next week, and a most
exciting time looked for.
Louisville had prize fight on Sunday.
The Omaha branch of the Union
Pacific railroad has been completed five
hundred and forty miles.
1t is limited that General Thomas was
scared off from New Orleans by Sheri.
dams dispatch regarding the epidemic.
The following new eounterfeits have
made their appearance during the past
month: Is on the United States Treasury
notes: IS on The Peoples National Bank,
jackson, Mich; los on the Highland
National Bank, Newburg, n. Y 20s on
the First National Bank ofPortlaud, CT.
The National Labor Congress, in SEES
sion during the past week at Chicago,
has adjourned, TO meet sEaiu st Pitts
burg.
There we're two hundred and thirty-six
deaths from yellow fever in the Island Of
Cuba in July, and one hundred and
thirty-fcur deaths from smallpox.
The merchants Of New York haze con
tribu,ed SlOCS in aid Of the sick and ~
fering Of GalveSt0n. Texas
Gen. Crook is reported 10 have sur
urised two camps Of India,s - tbe Pue-