Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-06
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THE NOON DISPATCHES
COTTON AND GOLD QUOTATIONS

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hibiting the sale of colored convicts.
The Senate Finance Committee took
favorable action on the bill converting
interest bearing notes into bonds, to be
held in reserve by the banks.
The Treasury Department has no in
formation as to what money or stores
was taken from the Confederate author
tiles at the breaking up of the Confede-
racy One hundred and FIVE bales OF
Confederate cotton is all that has been
received by the department.
Sanford Conover has been arraigned
for perjury, before the Judiciary Com.
mittee, relative to Mr.. Davis completely
in the assassination of Mr.. Lincoln
The Senate Finance Committee has
adopted bill for funding the compound
interest notes
Governor Sharkey leaves for home in
a few days. Governor Parsons, of Ala
bama, soon follows
New YORK, February 6.-Leonard W.
Jerome's office in Wall street was
ROBBED last night of $4,000 in United
States bonds, by burglars.
The steamer Paris, from Liverpool on
the 23d, has arrived.
LONDON, February 5.-The Queens
speech, at the opening of Parliament,
says our relations with foreign powers
are peaceable and satisfactory, and she
hopes the European war may lead to a
lasting peace. She has suggested to the
United States a mode whereby the ques-
tons pending between the two coun-
tries, arising out of the late civil
war, may receive amicRbe solution, and
be met by corresponding spirit. She
alludes to the failure of the English and
French government officers to procure a
settlement of the CHILEAN war. She has
abstained from any active interference
in the Cretan instruction, with the En-
perors of France and Russia, but
Joint efforts have been made to OBJ
tain improved relations between the
Porte and his Christian subjects. A bill
will be submitted for the consolidation
of the Canadian Colonial Provinces,
based on the concurrent opinions Of all
Colonial parties. She has issued in
structions to the East Indian Govern
ment to mitigate, as far as possible, the
presence of famine in that country.
The firm and moderate exercise of
power has rendered hopeless all attempts
to disturb the general tranquility in Ire
land. She asks the consent of Par
lament TO moderate the expendi-
lures, calculated to improve the
condition of soldiers, and lay
the foundation for an efficient army of
reserves She asks the extension Of
the elective franchise. She has issued
commission to inquire into and
report upon the Trades Union and
other working societies, as the means of
preventing outrages and violence arising
from the labor question, and commends
the measures recently introduced in the
navigation laws of France. A bill will
be introduced to investigate the difficult
ties between landlords and tenants in
Ireland.
New ORLEANS, February 6.-The Lou
isiana Senate has adopted the report Of
the Committee on Federal Relations on
the Constitutional Amendment to the
effect that Louisiana refuses to accede to
it.
New YORK, February GA Montreal
special says the Government organ an
nounces the expectation that the Con
federative bill will pass the Imperial
Parliament without opposition by the
end of February.
The Insurance Committee, to devise
means for the prevention of fires, recon,
mends that no risks be taken on build
ings used for the general storage of cot.
ton for less than six per cent per annum,
but if a sufficient and competent night
Waterman be employed, then three per
cent.
WAsHIxGToE, February Cit is not
true that the President has stated that he
would veto the Tariff bill.
McCracken, who wrote to Seward con.
corning Motley, says the latter is Sum
ner man, and that Minister Hale takes
every opportunity to~indorse Congress
against the President, and that Murphy
the Consul at Frankfort, is a blatant
Radical.
CrSoIxxATI, February 6.-The Kentor
WOODEN mills in Covington, KY, wer'
burned this morning.
New YORK, February Cotton dull
with declining tendency-middling up
lands, 32lc; Orleans, 34ci gold, 1863.
THINGS In MISSISSIPPI.
Serious Observation-Disclosures
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