Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-15
BY TELEGRAPH.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
LATEST FROM ALL QUARTERS

New ORLEANS, February H. Inc
weather is cloudy; thermometer, 72'
Business is retarded onthe landing by
the accumulation of mud along the
streets leading thereto.
Arrivals-Pauline Carroll and Baltic
from St Louis; Westmoreland, from
Cincinnati, and General Quitman, from
Vicksburg.
Departures-Mollie Able, for St Louis;
David White and Norman, for Louisville;
and Gen. Quitman, for Vicksburg.
New ORLEANS, February. l4-C0tton,
easier; sales 5000 bales low middling at
sO3@sl; middling, sll@32; receipts,
1869 bales; exports, 1909 bales; sugar,
unchanged; molasses, SITTER fair, 74e !;
prime to choice, 7S@79c.
WASHINGTON, February To- = In the
Senate petition was presented from the
citizens of Arkansas asking abill similar
to that passed by the House for the gov
eminent of Louisiana.
A bill passed furnishing larceny from
the Government by five thousand dollars
fine, and imprisonment not more than
ten years.
The House resumed the consideration
Of the bill for military government in
the South. After discussion it was moved
that the bill be recommitted to the Judi
ciary Committee, with Blair's amend
ment Previous question seconded and
passed-64 against SO.
ST. LOUIS, February Is. "A man
named Nichols murdered his wife and
two children in Breomfeld, Missouri,
Sunday night, and then committed sui
eide
A proposition was brought before the
Missouri Senate yesterday, TO amend the
Constitution by striking out the word
"white" wherever it occurs in that in
strument.
The River Convention assembled at 10
am, President Mcpherson in the chair.
A large number of delegates appeared,
who had arrived since yesterdays SEES
sion.
Mr. Barton Able, from the Committee
on Resolutions, announced the follow
ing names as the committee: Indiana
Charles II Mekin and A f Temple;
Pennsylyania-Major Joseph Knapp
and R c Gray; Minnesota-E D Will
liams and II P Washburn; Illinois
William Eggleton and 0 G Stainer;
Tennessee-W Giles and II Heiner;
Ohio-Theodore Cook and A F Gashorn;
Wisconsin, G Libby and Major {
Paine; Missouri-Judge S Treat and
James R Eads; Louisiana-Jeff Thomp-
son and Z Briggs; Kentucky-R H.
Voolfolk and B E Levy; Michigan
DANES + Jayand and A W Copeland;
Iown-General A I Reed and H W
Starr.
The Chairman Of the Committee ON
Credentials reported a corrected list Of
delegates, which occupied q considera-
BILE length of time.
General Yandover, of Iowa, moved
that j, L. Abbott, who had been engaged
as a civil engineer with General Wilson
in the survey of the Upper Mississippi,
be requested to address the Convention,
giving such information in relation to
the survey as he saw fit.
Mr.. Abbott took the stand and entered
into detailed statement of the surveys
made by Gen. Wilson, and the Engineer
Corps, which abounded in facts and
figures, giving much information to the
Convention. He gave full description
of all distractions in the different rapids,
and gave figures which will be of great
benefitto the Convention.
Professor Warehouse, of St. Lonis,
was invited to take the stand, and pro-
ceeded to read a paper involving the
whole question Of river improvements.