Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-28

federation, and thnt Confederate none,
was illegal money, not money, or an
other thing Of value.
MARKETS.
Special to PUBLIC LKpoEn, By Southern pAcih
and Atlantic Telegraph.
i NEW York, December rs, II Am
Gold, 1876; Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'S FIX
press, 25i; American Express Company
10; Adams Express Company, 48
United States Express COMPANY, 10
| Merchants Union Express Company
1854; Quicksilver, 2ls Canton, 4sf; Pa
cific Mail ll9s; Western Union Tele
granb Company, 33; New York Central
| 1855; Erie, 39l; Hudson, 1887; Read
ing, 9Ss; Chicago and Alton, lao
Chicago andAlton, preferred. 40; Toledo
Wabash and Fort Wayne, 67ti Toledo
Wabash and Fort Wayne, preferred, so
| 81. Paul, GIL; ST. Paul, preferred, So
Fort Wayne, i'll; Ohio and Mississippi
32s; Michigan Central, 1873; Michigan
Southern, Ss}; Illinois Central, lA
Cleveland and Pit,sburg, "a; Cleveland
aud Toledo, lol; Rock Island, ll6t;
Chicago and Northwestern, 804; Chicago
sna Northwestern, preferred, SO. The
market is quite active and steady.
New YoRK. December 2S, 1880 am.
Gold, l3j. Cotton: Misunderstanding,
ga; good ordinary, 23l; low middling,
245; middling, 20; good middling, 26i
Florida-Ordinary, 222; good ordinary,
23I; low middling, 24a; middling, 25t I;
good middling, 26i. Mobile-0rdinary,
22i; good ordinary, 23a; low middling,
24i; middlipg, 25i; good middling. 263.
New Orleans and Texas-Ordinary, 23 /;
good ordinary, "a; low middling, 20 {;
middling, 25l; good middling, 263
The cotton market opens firm. Sterling
exchange quiet at 1904 for sixty-day bills.
Gold carrying ct seven per cent, with q
dull market.
1925 al .-Gold 1876; coupons 81, ll43;
'62, llOt; ga. 1868; '65, l07l; 6-20s, new
issue, llO4; 81, ll0s; coupons '6S, ll0f;
| 1910 coupons, lost. Pacific skies, 99t.
| Government bonds are frmer and more
active. Sterling exchange quiet at 1893
for sxty-day bills. Gold carrying at
seven per cent. market dull, but prices
we'll sustained.
LONDON, December 2S, ILLS am. Five
twenties, TAT; Erie. rs; Consols, s2s;
Illinois Central, 96l.
LIVERPOOL, December %, ll:l5 am.
The cotton market opens quiet and un-
changed in prices, with fair demand;
middling uplands, l0sd; Orleans, l0Bd;
estimated sales for the day, $4,000 bales.
OurRAeEs IN ARKASsAs.-That our
readers may know the reports that have
come iu from the down-trodden and God
forsaken people of Arkansas are true,
and not at all exaggerated, we give be-
ow the statements of two gentlemen from
the town of Augusta. If required would
be sworn to:
PEABODY HoTEL.
MEMPHIS. TENN, December 70. lStS.J
Nv name is John Monroe; | am Can
adam BY birth; l never served either in
the army of the United States or the army
of the so-called Confederate States; l am
TWENTY-FIVE years old; have resided in
Augusta, Woodruff county, Arkansas,
since 1866 have been engaged With my
brother in making, buying and selling
harness, saddlery, etc. Twas in Augusta
when the militia, under the command of
Brigadier General Upham, came to the
place, on the morning of the 7th of De-
cember, nearly one hundred strong; when
| left, on Friday the 18th, they were
about two hundred and fifty strong. As
soon as they arrived they took possession
of the telegraph Office, and would not per.
NIT any Communication to be sent over
the lines. They surrounded all business
houses, and demanded all guns, arms of
all kinds, and ammunition; they then
entered the stores and took all kinds of
goods, dry goods, clothing, groceries, pro-
visions, etc., without paying or offering
to pay for them; private soldiers, without
officera, and men Who claimed to be Off
GERS, took goods Of every kind, without
orders; they took womens clothing,
shoes, bonnets, etc., and heard, took the
rings off lady's hand. They took from
us saddles, brides, spurs, saddle-bags,
and other articles in oNf lias---abeut
twelve hundred aud fifty dollars; men
came in and took what they wanted,
without orders. We kept an account
of the articles, and afterward
get receipt for them. They took some
horses that knog Of, aud ! heard that
they took others. They seized several
citizens and held them as prisoners, con-
fining them under guard In brick build
ing in town. Among those / know taken
we're ]. R. Jelks, c. I. Petit, DR..
Mckenzie, A. W. White, John Tharpe,
B. Conner, Maj. McRory, Jehn Sorrels,
C. C. Tyree. John CoFley, Nat. Gregory,
E. NJ. Shettleworth, aud others whose
names DO cot fesolieot. Mr.. J. Tharpe
was confined In prisor on ose of the
coolest nights of this year; would per-
NIT him no covering, nor his friends to
furnish him with food, in consequence he
vss badly frostbitten. ] heard some Of
the men say that they bad powder
under the house 10 WHICH the prisoners
we're confined, and if attacked they would
blow up ths house with the prisoners, and
burn the town. They made preparations
to burn the town, and seized cotton and
barricsded the streets. Before the mill
tia came the people of the town and sur
rounding country we're Quiet--no dis
turbances we're pseurring: After they
took possession of the town, and COM
mitted the outrsges | have narrated,
learn that about forty men collected out
side and fred upon the pickets. am
broken up in business by the acts Of the
militia, and ] have left the place st least
for time. All business had ceased, as
people from the country could not bring
in their produce to sell without danger Of
being robbed and insulied, and the NOR
chants had ordered their goods stopped
at Memphis or delivered at other points
on the river. aud some sent of What
goods Gen. Uphsm would permit them to
ship. JoHy MoSEoR.
reside al Augusta, and know the
young gentleman who made the above
staiemenls % be strictly truthful. left