Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-29
B Y TIE L E g R a P H.
Dispatches to tho Southwestern Press
Association.
NEW YORK.

NEW YcRK, D scember 20 The trouble
between William Horace Lingard, the
captain Jinks" of the Grand Opera
H louise, and his wife, Miss Alice Dunning,
was ventilated before Justice Dodge yes
terday. An amusing squabble between
the parties took place in court. One Tea
ture Of the case is that it involves the
reputation for chastity Of Mr.. JAS. Fisk,
jr. Mr.. Lingard was required by Justice
Dodge to give bond of one thousand
dollars 10 observe peace toward Miss
Dusning, and th affair was settled. They
appeared together at the Grand Opera
House last even ng.
John Reals case was again before
Judge Garvin 10 the general term OF the
Supreme Court yesterday, and by agree
ment of counsel went over until to-mor-
rev.
Judge Daily decided yesterday that
steamboat companies, as common car
riers, are liable for the baggage OF passen-
gers left in the stateroems, notwithstand-
ing notice may have been put up that
baggage will not be allowed in cabins or
staterooms, and when placed there it
must be at the risk of the owners.
Colonel Whitney, of the United Safes
detective force. yesterday received tel
agram from Montreal, announcing that
R 'cbard B. Caldwell, whose connection
with Samuel T. Blatchford in the Gus
tom house frauds, which has obtained
such widespread publicity, has been
com mitted 10 prison to await the arrival
of the necessary papers for his extrsdi-
ton appeal to the Court of Queens
Bench, the two writs of habeas corpus
having been set aside. 1t is said that
the Secretary of State at Washington has
already forwarded the necessary papers
to the Governor General of Canada. and
that Caldwell's father and son may be
expected here very soon.
A special says that Senator Pratt, OF
Indiana, will to-day or to.morroS send
ia bis resignation TO the Governor OF that
State, to take effect On the 18th proximo,
and that he will return home and retire
70 private life. Declining health and q
distaste for the position are the chief
reasons assigned for his resigning.
Yesterday United States Marshal Har-
Ian reported to the District Attorneys
Office that Charles Augustus aud Mason
Loeb and Thomas F. Ray, against whom
bench warrants had been issued for their
erre7i, Oh the charge of attempting
TO defraud the revenue, could not
be found in the city by his deputies, and
he had good reason for believing that
they had all fed TO Europe The Gov
eminent officials have evidence to show
that they entered into an enormous con.
sp;racy 10 defraud the revenue, involving
the sum Of a million dollars, by manu-
featuring and selling spirits in an illicit
manner.
The World le.rns by private advices
from Washington that the adjustment Of
theAlahama claims is 10 be made in Wash
ington instead of London, and that the
Dlke Of Argyle is &c be the AMBASSADOR
of Z lgIapd, clothed with authority to
make HE settlement upon such terms as
may be agreed upon. II is likewise said
that an apology, which Senator Sumner
insisted that England shall make for its
course during the war, will not be aceeded
to on the part of that Government, bat
that in lieu Of this the British Govern
maut will propose to transfer to the
United States all that territory in British
America lying west of Lake Superior, in
GLIDING British Golumbia, and their pos
sessions on the Pacific coast, in consider
alton of our paying large enm OF money
tharefoY.