Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-29

CHAMBER OF CoMMERoE.-Att the meet
ing, held yesterday, communication
was read from the Board of Trade at
Cleveland, Ohio, requesting the Chamber
of Commerce Of Memphis to adopt the
GENITAL system in regard to weights and
measures. The new system will come
into force, the circular stated, in Cleve-
land on the lst of March. A committee
of three was appointed to examine
into the whole matter and report
at the next meeting of the Cham
ber A communication was received
from the Chamber of Commerce OF st.
Louis, inviting the Chamber to send a
delegation of ten members to the Grand
River Convention to be held in that city
on February 18th. The object OF the
convention is to improve the navigation
of the Mississippi so that boats can pass
freely from ST. Paul, Minnesota, to New
Orleans. There will be delegations from
all towns on the river, from the Falls OF
St. Anthony to the Gulf. The following
gentlemen were appointed committee
to attend the convention at st. Louis /;
Messrs. Larry Harmstad, E. ID. Porter,
W. c. Postal, II. Hainer, Dan. Able,
Jos. Elliott, R. P. Walt, T. A. K0ndig,
Samuel Tate and f. NJ White.
The committee appointed to inquire
into the constitutionality of the cotton
tax reported, That they issued circu-
lar calling on the planters to contribute,
each, a small sum of m oney to defray the
necessary expenses of attorneys fees,
etc and consulted, by correspondence
and otherwise, some of the most eminent
lawyers in our country, all of whom ex-
pressed great confidence in the success
of a suit, if prosecuted before the Su'
preme Court of the United States The
committee, also, correspondent with the
Chamber of Commerce of Louisville and
Nashville, who manifested deep inte-
rest in the question, and the former
kindly proposed their assistance in get
ting up test case before the United
States Circuit Court now in session in
that city, and both Chambers, although
in country where but little cotton is
raised, generously intimated their will
lingness to defray q portion of the ex-
penses of the suit. The committee re-
greet to have to report that their appeal
to the planters, who are directly interest
ed in the question, for means to enable
them to prosecute the suit, has been so
poorly responded to, and the means fur
nished being so inadequate to the neees
sites of the case, that we are under the
necessity of laying the facts before the
Chamber, and if they do not think
proper to take other steps to raise the
necessary means, your committee would
recommend that the money which has
been paid into their hands be returned
TO the subscribers, and the legal settle
ment of the question be abandoned, so
far as the Memphis Chamber OF Com
merce are concerned, and that the com
mittee be discharged" 1t was moved
and carried that the report be adopted,
the committee discharged, and the money
returned to those who subscribed. Com
plimentary resolutions we're passed in
dorsing Ex-Governor Isham G. Harris as
worthy Of the confidence Of the business
men Of any community, etc. Governor
Harris is to visit Europe shortly with a
view of forming business connection
in that country.
New MENFHIs THEATRE-There was
a good house at the New Memphis last
evening, when Vestyali appeared as
Philip Beaufort in the beautiful