Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-18

sailed for Corea. With the intention Of
initiating the Japanese proceedings in
hopes Of similar success.
Danville, KY, had a seventy-6ve thou
sand dollars FIRE Sunday night, destroy
Jog various buildings, including the jail
and a female college half a mile distant.
Treasurer New has on hand 10000,
900 in silver coin and bullion. This will
redeem two-thirds of the fractional cur
rency of the country remaining in circu-
lation.
A she'll recovered from the wreck OF
the Merrimack exploded at the Ports.
mouth, Va, n~avy-yArd Saturday, killins
two negroes aud severely wounding sew
eral others.
1t is reported in London that the
Egyptian army has been surrounded by
the Abyssinisns. It's situation is critical,
and Abyssinia demands indemnity for
the expenses of the war.
The Sublime Porte intends, if driven
to e%xtremities, to arm the Mohammedan
population and declare a determination
to postpone all payments of interest on
debts until after the restoration of peace.
Two formidable instructions in China.
Some Of the imperial troops have joined
the rebels. Some of the high cockalo-
RUNS are trying to borrow money to pay
troops, buy arms and quell the rebellion.
A mulatto boy Of sixteen committed
an outrage on a little white girl seven
years old, at Danville, Ky, last Friday.
he vas arrested, and when discovered
swinging from a limb next morning was
cold as a wedge.
A fight took place at Limerick yester-
day between the Nationalist and a pro-
%cession of the opposite party. Over one
hundred persons we're wounded in the
riot, Of whom forty are seriously and six,
it is feared, fatally injured.
The House passed a resolution yester-
day, by a vote Of l65 to rs, directing the
Sergeant-st-Arms to make a return to
the writ in the case of Kilbourne and
produce him before the court. The Re-
publicans and half the Democrats voted
for the resolution.
The New Orleans Republican Of yes
terdsy says the ship Pegasus, drawing
eighteen feet eight inches, and the bark
ALTO eighteen feet nine inches, went to sea
through the Southwest Pass Sunday with
out detention. Captain Eads claims
that at high tide be has obtained fifteen
feet six inches through the %jetties TO the
Gulf.
Mr.. Carpenter, Belknap's counsel, read
and had fled yesterday a plea denying
the jurisdiction Of the Senate, as Belk-
nap was not an officer Of the United
States at the time the articles were pre-
scented to the Senate, but a private citi-
zen. Mr.. Lord, on the part of the man.
ayers, asked that time be allowed them
until the 18th inst. to consider what
replication shall be made to the plea
Of Mr.. Belknap, and it was so ordered.
The Common Council of Chicago held
a long session yesterday, which closed at
q late hour last night. After much dis
cussion the recent city election was de.
clsred null and void on account Of the
frauds perpetrated, and by virtue Of the
power vested in them the following Off
GERS we're appointed: B. Callahan, Col
%lector, vice Evans; VIM Gray, Assessor,
vice Phillips; Robert Lincoln, Super.
visor, vice R. Ryan, and VIM. Carver,
Clerk, vice Gleason. This ends all the
trouble 30 far as these officers are con-
esrned. Mayor Colvin responds to the
demand upon him to resign in a long
and firm communication declining to
secede.