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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
FROM CAIRO.
Destructive Fire-Eleven Buildings De.
stroyed--Loss $l75.000. .lH

CAIRO, May IA destructive fir,
broke out on Ohio levee this morning Al
5 o'clock, destroying every building from
the corner of Fourth street to B, Smgth
& Co.'S store-eleven buildings The
principal losers are: j. Lederer, &c.
900, insured for $4,000 in the Interna-
tional, and $4,000 in the Ema; Louis
We'll, boot store, $4,000, insured for
$1,000 in the Farmers and Mechanics,
and Quincy; Miller, Stratton & Co., $685.
600, insured fer $32, 000--5000 eachin the
Globe, Chicago Fire Insurance, Franklin,
Auburn City, and the remainder in the
Illinois Mutual; P. Fitzgerald, $4,000,
insured for So, 300 in the Illinois Mutual;
NJ. Bambrick, $4,000, insured $4,000 on
stock and building-$l SOON the Chicago
Fireman, $500 in the Albany, and $500
in the Illinois Mutual A. Cain, Sc, 900,
insured $4,000 in the Illinois Mutual;
Steinheimer & Marx, $2l 900, no insu-
rance; B. McManus, $4,000, insured
81, 700 in the Illinois Mutual; j. Weiner,
$1,000, insured $1,000 in the North
America, and 81 500 in the Metropolitan.
Mrs. Richard Turtle saved, most Of her
stock, but much of it is damaged; the
stock of B. Smyth & Co. was considera-
bly, injured by water, and the building
narrowly escaped. The town pump, at
the corner of Ohio levee and Fourth
street, was entirely destroyed. A large
number of small dealers had their stocks
consumed. The upper portion of most
of the houses were occupied by families1
The total loss is about $4,000 uo
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
VERY UNFAIR.
A Washington dispatch save

~
Yesterday, in the Senate, Mr.. REyERDY
JOHNSON had letter read from WADE
HAMPTON, in vindication of that worthy,
who mourns in il that " the South has
no voice in the halls of legislation. From
a man who was plunging the country in
war TO act ouf of II, few months ago,
this is refreshing Mr. FEssESDEY very
nronerly Objected TO the introduction of
such papers, and Mr.. JOHNSON withdrew
il.
The statement of General SHERMAN is
taken by Mr.. FEssENDES to be too sacred
for contradiction. and WADE HAMPTON
shall not be heard in his own defence,
because he is a rebel SHERMAN S ac-
count of the origin Of The fire that des-
troyed Columbia was read in the Senate
and published officially by the Govern
ment. If the Radicals fatter themselves
that the truth of history will not burst
through all distractions and stand forth
vindicated before the world, they are
bigger fools than wehave heretofore sup
posed them to be. That the Senate OF
the United States, that vaunts itself the
freest and most enlightened body of men
on earth, should deny to a citizen the
right to contradict the truth Of something
charged to him, will hardly be credited
in 81 Petersburg or Vienna, the seats OF
pure despotism. We are not discussing
the point at issue between these distin-
guished Generals They stand, in point
Of character, before an unprecedented
world as equals-each entitled to be re-
spected and believed. The point is
shall one of them be gagged and prohib-
tied from speaking to the country before
which he has been arraigned as the burner
of a city, That is all The Senate will
not listen to 3 contradiction, and yet the
Senate is an honorable body. FrssES-
Drs objects, and FEssESDEx is an honor
able man. TheEreat Radical party stuhs
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09

No fopers for Federaisi" How very
unfair and uncalled for is this attempt
to make an argument out Of the most
natural and inevitable Of circumstances
The Confederate dead were our neigh
bors, relatives and friends, and the Ger.
emonies which we observe in honor Of
them, are purely religious and personal,
not political. Those who fell on the
other side were not our relations, neigh
bors or friends, and why should we weep
for them? Monuments in their name
are going up all over the North eulogies
of their deeds are being pronounced
every day; and yet, il a few widows and
orphans Of a loved one here in the Sonth
attempt the like, it is seized upon by the
ghouls of Radicalism, who respect the
dead no more than the living, for little
capital, and banded over the country to
prove that the rebels are as disloyal rs
ever" Out upon such hypocrisy ln Be-
gotten in a wicked spirit, it cannot faint
any just or good man, North or South.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
BY TELEGRAPH.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES
TO THE PUBLIC LEDGER.
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, May 9-ll:45 A. Mn
the Senate, yesterday, the House joint
resolution, in relation to the attempt to
sssassinate the Emperor of Russia, was
adopted, with certain amendments 8
The House joint resolution to provide
for the exemption of crude petroleum
from taxation or duty was passed.
A resolution was passed to prohibit
the use Of the Senate chamber for other
than legitimate purposes in the future,
and discussion of the Postofice APP
preparation bill consumed the rest of the
day.
In the House a debate on the resolu-
ton to amend the Constitution, as re-
ported by the Committee on Reconstruc-
ton, consumed nearly the entire day
In the evening session the Internal
Revenue bill was taken up by sections as
far as the sixth, and several amendments
we're adopted. No other business was
transacted.
Early yesterday morning, at White
house Landing, Va, . prize Eight oc-
CURED between Sam Collier, Of Balti-
more, and Horatio Bolster, of New York.
Forty-seven rounds were fought. Col
lier became the victor, and the parties
and their many friends returned to
Washington, whereupon a disturbance
arose and a shooting affrsy ensued,
wherein one Of the parties received ball
in the shoulder, and one or more Of the
parties were arrested.
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Trouble In vicksburg.
The vicksburg Herald says, upon the

The vicksburg Herald says, upon the
subject of negro riots a q 81
Unless the civil authorities devise
some plan to rid this city and neighbor-
hood of its degraded surplus population,
the same scenes will be enacted here.
This is evident to any one who attended
the last county court There are thou
sands Of negro women = miserable
wretches---in and around this town, who
do nothing for living; this they ac-
knowledged openly before the court ];
calling themselves " fancy women. !"
They should be taken up as Migrants,
and hired out, or be made to leave and
90 to work on the plantations Many Of
them could get work in town, if they
could be induced to work, but this they
will not do, and the people must look for
white labor to supply their places.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
TERRIBLE SITUATION.

7 Mr.. REYNOLDS, clerk at the Lookout
Mountain House, recently heard screams
issuing from the neighborhood of one Of
the steep rocks on the summit Of the
mountain Reaching the spot and lean.
ing over, he discovered young lady
hanging by portion of her clothes to
some shrubs growing from assures in the
rock. He let himself down over the
cliff, and, by preternatural exertions, re-
lieved the young lady from her embar-
RAISING and perilous situation, and re-
stored her to her friends safe, alive and
blusbinq.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
Dog Fights.

The Chicago Republican devotes a
column to dog fight We copy one
paragraph:
Then McCloskey and Jennings went
through the important and somewhat
perilous process of tasting" their
dogs This precautionary measure con-
sists in getting down on the knees and
tapping the tongue to the dog on the
breast and between the shoulders, in or
der to convince the other that he is clean,
and that no poison has been applied
externally for the purpose of injuring
the other dog if he should bite here.
Each man has the right to require the
other to taste" the dog in any part
that he may indicate.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09


Special Dispatch to Missouri Republican,
WASHINGTON, May THE Senate was
occupied all day in the discussion of the
motion to reconsider the vote by which
the Senate agreed TO the amendment to
the Postal Appropriation bill prohibiting
any officer appointed by the President
during the recess of the Senate from re-
ceiving any salary until confirmed by
the Senate. The debate was as elaborate
as on previous days when the subject
was under consideration. Senators
Howe and Trumbull were the principal
speakers against the reconsideration.
Senator Sherman favored very earnestly
the reconsideration, on the ground that
so important question should not be
hitched on to an important appropriation
bill, thereby rendering its veto almost
certain. Mr.. Salisbury, in the course Of
some remarks, said that the President
was not Democrat; that he was not
elected by that party, and that he had as
vet appointed no Democrat TO Office, and
that. in fact, the Democratic party sought
no Office at his hands. On the vote being
taken. the Senate reconsidered the vote
adopting the amendment by three ma
iority, and will probably repeal the
Amendment tomorrow. Those Republi
can Senators who voted for reconsidera-
were Messrs. Cowan, Doolittle, Edmunds,
Fessenden, Foster, Lane of Kansas,
Morgan, Nesmith, Norton, Poland, Sher-
man. Stewart, Van Wrinkle, Wiley, VIII
liams and Wilson. This vote should not
be considered a test one on the merits
of the proposition, for il is believed that
the amendment will pass as an indepen-
dent bill
The Reconstruction Committees re-
port is TO be considered in the House to-
morrow. Mr.. Stevens gave notice that
full discussion would be allowed before
II was brought TO a vote, though the
House resolved that each speech should
be limited 10 thirty minutes. A vote
on the constitutional amendment will
probably be had ere the close of the
present week, so that il could be consid-
cred next week in the Senate
There seems to be a very strong i'm
pression to-day that the President has
decided 10 veto the bill admitting Colo
RADIO into the Union Its friends in the
House at least are very confident Of an
impending veto.
A delegation Of eminent medical men,
who were members Of the Medical Con-
vention which has just adjourned at
Baltimore, were before the House Com
mittee on Commerce to-day, and gave
their views on the cholera question.
The Committee were so impressed with
their ideas that they Authorized bill to
be reported, providing that il shall be
the duty of the Secretary Of War, with
the cooperation Of the Secretary Of the
Treasury and the Secretary Of the Navy,
whose concurrent action shall be directed
by the President, to cause TO be estab-
lished an efficient and uniform system Of
against the introduction OF
cholera as an epidemic. Il gives disere-
tionary power for the establishment Of
sanitary measures, and 70 take such co
operative movements with adjoining
countries as will prevent the spread OF
the infection into the United States
The hall and ante-roon Of the kxecu-
i've Mansion were not 50 fhrenged to-day J
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
soMERsAULTs.

The Nv mnastic entertainments of pol
iticians are no less singular than those
of the regular profession. If one turns
somersault before few dozens OF
people, the other filings his heels over his
head in the presence of the nation.
This thing of political somersaulting
has experienced a notable revival during
the past four or FIVE years. Public men
have turned their heels and heads to the
people alternately, and demanded for
each antagonstical attitude the plaudit
mentioned in Scripture. Singularly OBJ
lvious of past committals, they wind
around themselves wreaths of quite
other colors, until they are as spotted as
leopards and as striped as zebras. There
is not politician of any character now
in public life who has not committed
himself again and again to the Con-
stitution, and the Union as it was. By
it he resolved to live, and, if necessary,
for it he intended to die. 1t was the
only Government on the face of the
earth worthy the affections of free
people, and he who dared to dot one 4, or
cross one E. of the chart of liberty, de-
served a felon's doom. Nobody hesitated
to take an oath to support it. Every
Radical member of Congress, and every
Radical office-holder of this day, has not |
only pledged himself to sustain the
Union as it ioas but has called heaven
to seal an oath to do it.
Where do they stand now2 They have
somersaulted over the ropes and out of
the ring and away, swift whirling to
God knows where. If there are any
shreds of the old Constitution, or any
pillars of the old Union, they do not as
sail, they are considered too Insignificant
for assault They announce that this
Union is in what the lawyers call, abey-
ance The recent revolution, they main
tain, did shatter it, did despoil it of its
breadth, aud withdraw its benefits from
eleven States. Previous to allowing it
to resume its ancient authority, they pro-
pose TO change it from what it acas when
they swore to protect it forever, and make
it something else This is all plain
enough, but the business Of somer-
saulting has gone into party, and now
illustrates to hitherto credulous people
how small is the quantum of reliance
that ought to be placed upon the profess
sions of those who aspire to govern them.
Emerging from fiery tempest of war,
brought on by the faithlessness and
treachery of public men, they have, we
trust, cut few eye teeth and gained a
little hardness for their heads. 1t was
the stump that made the politicians 1t
was the politicians that broke up the
country. 1t is the politicians that refuse
10 restore the government, and it is the
stump and the politicians that the people
should watch, distrust and put down.
These somersaults bode no good. They
Indicate IA corrupt state Of morals, and,
TO correct them, We should remove the
cause When q man, whom the people
have trusted, betrays them, or his promi-
ses made to them, let him be cut down,
as men cut down a dead and rotten tree.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
From New York.

Nrw YORK, May S.-The Health Oh.
GERS report three new cases Of cholera
and three deaths There arc now sixty.
FIVE convalescents transferred from the
hospital ship to the ship Saratoga The
total number Of deaths has been fifty
The bark Winthrope, from cienfuegos
for Portland, sunk at sea on the I'd from
a heavy gale. Captain Hill aud the crew
were picked up by the schooner Walter
Roleigh and brought here
John j. Davis, Grand Master J. o o.
F., died at Brooklyn to-day.
A Washington special says that Dis
trict Attorney Chandler has prepared q
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From New Orleans. {

New ORLEANS, May s.--Gens. Beaure'
gard and Writ Adams have gone to Eu'
rope to negotiate for the bonds Of the
New Orleans, jackson and Great North
ern railroad. President johnson modi-
fed their Confederate paroles so as to go
and return,
A tornado passed over Southern Lou
isana yesterday, destroying the crops.
The cotton seed is reported bad, and
the planters are respondent. mn w
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
aarlands for the Dead

The Nashville Banner makes the fol
lowing caustic remarks on q subject Of
deep interest
A contemporary places among the
head lines Of an article on Southern
Opinion" the following: Orations over
the rebel dead GarIands for their graves
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
From Louisville.

LOUISVILLE, May s.-Sales of tobacco
amounted to l66 hhds. Leaf tobacco
commands full rates, and prices are un
changed; Virginia, $sO@$l5l; -four
superfne, s.; extra family, Sl2; corn
63c; oats, 47c; bacon shoulders, l3fc
clear sides, lsac; middling cotton, 3O4c
whiskey. So %. ~ tes
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09

bill of indictment against JEFF. Davis, at
Norfolk. 1t is understood that Chief
Justice Chase will preside at the trial
Cotton, quiet and unchanged; Aour
has advanced 30c; coffee, dull; sugar
duh at lOl@l3c; molasses, dull-Porto
Rico, $50; pork, $50 |, sterling, 50 gold,
20; freights to Liverpool, dull; stocks
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09

Dd- A Mississippi paper says; There
is a negro school at Columbus, Miss,
conducted by Quakers sent out for the
purpose by the Quakers of Indiana, be-
cause, say they, the Southern people
have lost too much TO be able to educate
the negro, and as the Quaker is not pug
nacious he can keep negro school with
out offending any one"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09

A FEW days ago negro in Pike county,
Georgia, violated the person of respect
able white woman, under revolving cir
cumstances The negro was arrested
and placed under the charge of the
Sheriff, from whose hands he was rescued
by party Of men in disguise and sum.
marily executed in the neighborhood of
ALBANY
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09

AN old man sixty years old,
named Ashmere Edwards. was brutally
murdered in his cottage near Mobile, a
few nights since, for his money His
head was chopped open with a Ratchet,
and his body thrown into creek.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
COTTON AND GOLD QUOTATIONS

NV YoRK, May 9, IL AM-Gold,
frmer, opened at 20! cotton, dull and
nominai az 81 70 CSC.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09

its ears full Of wool, refuses to hear, and
yet it is an honorable party. But such
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09

Bs~ FoRNEv's last editorial is headed
One Man" This has always been the
subject of his thoughts, and his name is
FoRNEY.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

The Heading" Amendment Reconsidered
Reconstruction in the House-colorado
Bill in Danger Of veto-Medical Dele
gates on Cholera-sanitary Bill Framed
Tho Defaulting Bsnk-counterfeiter
Pardoned = Congressional Intermission
Desired-The Army Bill.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-06-30
NOTICE..
JAMES HOOPER, JR., ET Al.


WILLIAM LOGAN EFT Al.
ORDERED, This twenty-ffth day of May
~ A. ID. eighteen hundred and sixty-six,
that the sale made and reported by James
l. Mccullough and James B. Groome,
Trustees for the sale of Whitelock's Dis.
coyery," now in possession of William
Logan, be ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be shown on
or before the first day Of August, next !;
provided, a copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper nriEted in Cecil county
once week for one month before the thir.
tieth day OF June, next.
The Report states the amount of sales to
be s ,GO3 90.
HENRY r. TORBERT,
True copy; test, Clerk
HENRY II. TORBERT,
may 2G, 1SGS-1m Clerk.
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Congress from the Galleries..

Surgeon Cravcn's book, in eulogy of JEFF
fcrson Davis, and in dcuuncation of every
body who suggests that that prince of trait
ors should not be made more ilustrious than
General Washington, has added new fuel to
the defiant maIignities Of the reconstructed
chivalry. They are in raptures with the lit
erary doctor, aud have persuaded themselves
that their beloved eXPresldcnt is not only a
greatly injured man, hut that he should be
released with all the honors at the earliest
moment. The strangcst of all the strange
transformation Of the times is the danger Of
talking against treason, and especially against
Jefferson Davis. in certain official circles
That sort of discussion is as much tabooed
in the White House, the Treasury Depart
mcnt, md the State Department, as it was
i'll the irgina or the South Carolina legis.
laturcs. Indeed, Davis has become first.
class defender Of ''my policy" and must be
treated accordingly. Hence the visit of Mr..
Hugh McCulloch, the Secretary of the
Treasury, to the ''stcrn statesman You
will recolcct that IA formal statement was
made to the effect that this visit was not in.
tended as one Of sympathy; but the object
was too patent to deny, and DR.. Craven's
dedication of his book to the "couragcousn
chief of the Treasury Department shows how
it was understood at the Fortress. The
prisoner 5 general treatment Is ailOtlcr sign
of the times Now, no Union man wants
to see Davis ironed, or starved or locked up.
Decency, if not dignity, would restrain any
positive cruelty to fcnd who never had
any mercy for others. But it is carrying the
Joke not only too far, but refining it into an
insult, to turn Davis into a party orator, his
prison into a Johnson platform, and his at
PENDANTS INTO short hand reporters to take
down his speeches for circulation against the
guilty radicals. All in order and in reason.
gentlemen. But this is really too much of Il
good thing AT any rate, the intrigue will
not "uccecd. Admitting the difficulties in
the way of a conviction, the crime Of Darts
as Just as Jlach today an the sight of COL
as ii was before Andrew Johnson stopoed
n,aLang treason odious. And nothing serves
to make it look blacker than the arrogant
falsehoods of Davis himself, in his talks
with Dr. Craven There is, indeed, ga di.
,vinity that shapes our ends;" and these
falsehoods, followed by the loud echo to
Craven's book of hate and threats in the
Southern papers, are reviving the resolution
of the people on the necessity of furnishing
treason. The mighty spirit of Andrew Jack,
son would cry rloud in shame from the bat
Elements of the fortress where the traitor is
confined, and where the great hero himself
often hid himself for reflection and repose,
if the first clear act of deliberate treason
were not fearfully avenged.-Sunddy Press.
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NOTICE.

June %, lSG6-2w
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A fathers ADVICE TO HIS SoN-Bob.
YOU are about leaving home for strange parts
on are going to throw me ont of the game
and 20 1t alone. The odds are against vou
bob-rcmrmber that industry and perscvcr
ance are the winning cards as they are the
" bowers. Book learning. and all that
sort OF thing, will do to fill IN with like
small trnmpS, and you must have the bowers
to back them or they amt worth shucks.-
II luck Is against You pretty strong. don t
cave and look like sick chicken on a rainy
day, but hold up your head and make be-
ilere you are flush of trumps: they don't
play so hard against you. I've lived and
trave led around some, Bob, and I've found
out that as soon as folks thought You held "A
weak hand, they d buck against you strong.
SO, when you re sortcr weak, keep on bold
front but play cauious be satisfied with
a point. Many's the hand I've seen EN-
enchrcd cause they played for too much.
let en- mig you; recolcct the game LAYS as
much with the head as with the hands. Be
temperate; never get drunk, for then no
matter how good your hand, you won't know
how to play it; both bowers and the ace
won save you; for there's certain to be a
miss deal y or something wrong. And
another thing, Bob, (this was spoken in a
low tone) don't go too much on women:
queens IS kinder poor cards ; the more you
nave OF them the worse for you; you might
have three, and Roy trump. ! don't say
discard them all if you get hold of one
that is trump, It's all good-and there's
certain to be one out Of four. And above
all, Bob, be honest; never take mans
trick what don't belong to you, nor - slip"
cards Or mig for then you can look your
men IN the face, and when that's the case,
there no fun in the game It's regular
sc ut.throat." SO now, Bob, farewell; re-
member what tell you, and you'll be sure
to win; aud if you don't, it serves you right
if you get - skunkcd."