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Show JMUIe Uool. Memphis, 7. Sonator Alcorn has telegraphed to the attorney-general to the effect that several of tho dispatches dispatch-es relating to the disturbance at Friar's Point aro without foundation, and that there is no cause (or alarm for the peace of that county. The mob baa dispersed, and it is thought will remain quiet. There is no question ques-tion of politics in this excitement. The disturbance originated by a party of Beeral hundred negroes who had been excited by the ill-tempered sherill. They marched On the town" but were readily dispersed. |