Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-16
LOUISVILLE.


ton met at ten o'clock this morning.
The Committee on Navigation presented
report urging upon Congress the i'm
portsnce of improving Southern ports,
especially Galveston. After two addi'
tioual reports were made by the Commit
tee on Emigration, a majority report ia
voring Chinese emigration and min.
ority report in opposition thereof, a lively
debate took place between Shorter, of
Alabams, and Hill, Of Georgia, against
the majority. aud Walbridge, of New
York, Lubbock, of Texas, aud Massey, of
Virginia. ia favor of the report. The whole
subject was voted down.
A resolution was offered thanking ex.
President Fillmore for the diguifisd, i'm
partial manner in which he discharged
the duties of the chair, was unanimously
adopted Several other resolutions were
offered and adopted, thanking the people
of Louisville for their hospitality; the
chairman Of the committee of arrange
ments and other officers of the Conven-
ton, for the able manner in which their
duties were performed; the telegraph
for the free use Of its lines, aud Abe re-
porters of the Convention for the correct
and impartial reports. The committee on
miscellaneous business, presented re-
port memorializing Congress to desig-
nate some point in the Mississippi
Valley for the holding of the Worlds Fair
in 1871, which was adopted.
A resolution expressing much gratif-
cation at the completion of the Union
and Central Pacific railroads, six years
before the time required by law, was
offered and adopted.
Mr.. Fillmore then arose. He eulo-
gized the proceedings Of the Convention,
stating that they would be of salutsry
benefit to the country; ard closed by
saying that he would never again appear
in public.
The Convention at Ills a. m. adjourned
sine die.
No aiiusion 10 the postal telegraph APP
pears in the proceedings, but the ques-
ton was brought before the Committee
on Miscellaneous Business consisting of
one from each State, and the committee
unanimously instructed THAR chairman
to report against the scheme, or against
any proposition that might be presented
recommending the Government to ope-
rate telegraphs, as the rule of the CON-
mittee required ell business to be re-
ferred to the appropriate committees,
and this WIS the only COMMITTEES to which
such proposition could have reference.
No movement was made. Nearly all
your contemporaries have to-day seen a
letter purporting to be from M. Frequet,
dated New York, to friend in this city,
in which he makes use of the following
language:
The proposition and correspondence
relative thereto has been conducted by
me directly with the President, at his re-
quest. The public announcement in the
Herald was evidently the result of jeal-
ousy on the part of the Secretary Of the
Treasury, who had not been consulted in
the matter. return to France to-mor-
row, but yet believe the matter will be
successfully carried out" s.
NJ. Frequet is said to be partner in
Rothschild's banking house, and was for
many years the spirit of their Paris firm.
ThePresident being out Of town at present
Of course have no means Of sscertaining
whether NJ. Frequst had any correspond
ence with the head of the govern ueut on
the subject. - e