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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25
BRowNLow WISDOM.

JOHN H. Bowen, who was elected by
the people to the Office of Tax Collector,
is ousted from his office by a decision OF
Judge SMITH. Failing to file an oath re-
ouired by the Franchise law renders his
election null. A defeated aspirant,
having fled his oath, gets the office
This is curious feature in elections.
A candidates oath must be fled five
days previous to the poll. If there is no
candidate for an Office, and no oath, the
people cannot elect an officer. There
must first he a candidate, or there can
be no election. The man must seek the
people, not the people the man.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25
FROM NASHVILLE.
The Killing of Bent-Attempt to
Bnrn a Newspaper Office.

NASHVILLE, October 23.-Forty-three
Federal soldiers are confined in the
Nashville penitentiary for various often
ses. They will be released tomorrow
by order of General Thomas.
The funeral services of c. Fl. W. Bent,
shot and killed yesterday, will be held
at eleven o clock tomorrow morning, at
the deceased's residence on High street,
after which the body will be expressed
to Boston.
The homicide is still the general theme.
One portion of the community applaud
McGavocks conduct, but the more think
ing portion, in view of all the circum-
stances, consider the killing unjustifiable
Last Friday night an attempt was made
to burn down the office of the Union Flag
newspaper, at Jonesboro, Tenn The
fire was quickly discovered and put out
Three boys, apprentices, slept in the
building, and would have been in danger
of losing their lives had the flames got
under full headway. This is the third
time this year the attempt has been made
to destroy the Flag office by incendia-
rism
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knowledge or assent of Mr.. johnson.
He has been for sometime making out
the commissions and forwarding them
to the appointees with orders to them to
report to Gen. Grant for duty. Gen. Grant
supposing them, as appears from the face
of their papers, duly appointed
by the President, has assigned them to
duty, and they are now at service with
out the knowledge of the President. On
learning this fact the President was very
angry, sent for Mr.. Stanton, and de-
manded an explanation. The result was
the resignation of Mr.. Stanton as soon as
he could make out his report, on which
he is now engaged.
The belief gains ground that Gen.
Sherman is to succeed Mr.. Stanton pro
tenn. He cannot, of course, hold the
office and that of Lieutenant General at
the same time, but at the request of Gen.
Grant, who desires the hearty co-opera-
ton of the war office in the work of reor-
ganizing the army, Sherman will act as
Secretary,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25
MAYNARn AVN BR0WNLOw.

The Nashville Banner says Horace
MAYNARD is reported TO have remarked
the day after the recent elections, that
he was Of the opinion that the result
Of the elections would have tendency
to modify the Presidents feelings, and
that he had confidence that henceforth
Congress and tho President would get
along more tremendously. Governor
BRowNLow, who was sitting near, was
asked his opinion. He said he differed
materially with MAYNARD. He knew
JOHNSON well, had fought him for forty
years, and he believed he would go on
until he would be hanged ! On the
we know no man in Tennessee
who runs a fairer chance of being hanged
than WILLIAM GODDESS BRowSLow.
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SHERMAN,S RAID.

The Richmond (va.) Dispatch says
that on Thursday last, eight hundred
tons of rails from the Charlotte and
South Carolina railroad were received at
the Richmond and Danville railroad de
pot, to be sent to the Tredegar Iron
Works. The rails were some of those
destroyed by SHERMAN's raid, and some
of them were tied in bow.knot, and in
the centre of one coil of iron bar was
the trunk of tree, around which it had
beed wrapped. The iron will be worked
up again into rails.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
QUESTIONABLE ADVICE.

The Nashville Banner commenting
on FoRSEY's threat of civil war in con-
nection with the Baltimore imbroglio,
tells its readers;
Well, this looks like war Let every
Southern man, every veteran in gray,
be ready at moments notice to take up
his musket in defense of the Union and
the Constitution against these vile trail
tors who would disrupt government
for which so much blood has already
been shed.
We do not think this good advice, and
are surprised that so prudent a paper as
the Banner has generally been, should
give it. If the country is threatened
with civil war, or if the elements are in
readiness for explosion, hot-headed peo-
pie are the most dangerous advisers "A
spark ignites the train, and the work is
done. Wehave attempted to teach, in our
humble way, the Importance of prudence
on the part of the Southern people We
think that an exhibition of military force
at the South would not benefit, but ruin
ANDREW JoHSsoN's policy. A hurricane
of excitement would sweep over the
North. and thousands who now act with
the Conservatives would be drawn over
TO the Radicals We should have enacted
scenes similar to those that followed the
capture of Fort Sumter We should see
the whole North fly TO arms to put down
what they would term another rebellion.
Every Northern State has Radical gov
eminent, and large Radical majority.
They could raise, equip and pay troops,
and, it is believed, are not averse to a
revolution that should drive JOHNSON
from the capitol.
Why should we at the South talk of
taking up arms to defend the Union
In the light of past events, it sounds
strange. Is the South in the Union
which she is advised TO defend? Ger
tainly not. The only Union we have
now, is the Union as changed and ex
pounded by THAD STEVENS and his Con-
gress. The only Union offered to the
South is one based upon no compromise,
but upon the fundamental principle of
the absoutism of Congress, twothirds
of which is composed of avowed enemies
of the Southern people. 1t is useless TO
talk of such Union as ANDREW JOHN
SON would give the country. We shall
never see it, unless it come through a
revolution. To demand it from the
North would be as fruitless as demanding
the restoration of slavery. When one
died, the other ceased to exist. No; let
us Of the South not provoke collision.
1t is not war we want; it is peace. The
veterans in gray" do not want any
more war Gen. FORREST told US that in
Court Square. The great Southern cap
tains everywhere have told us that If
civil war must come, let it come by no |
act of the South, no provocation of the |
South We want money and population.
Let US become strong before we threaten.
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HEAVY BLACK SILKS ONLY 81 rs PER
III yard.
Printed Delaines only go per yard.
Bleached Domestics ia, 10, IL. ~ and Zoe per
Canton Flannel oaly 35c per yard.
Linseys only SOC per yard.
l0-4 sheetings IS. $50 and 81 90 per yard.
Colored Alpaccas only Csc per yard.
Black Alpaccas only 50c per yard.
Poplins, all colors, Doc per yard.
Irish Linens only so and Coo per yard.
Brown Domestics l21S, l5. II. 20 and 2'c per
yard.
Bed Ticking 20 to SOC per yard.
Wooden Nubias 75c each.
Wooden Sontags 81 % to 81 80 each.
White Jaconets only II, %. Is and 30c per yard.
Nainsooks only 20, rs. 80 and $50 per YARD
Crib Blankets 81 per pair.
White bed Blankets $6 to $40 per pair.
Colored bed Blankets only "a per pair.
1000 Balmoral Skirts at 81 20 each.
Dress Cambrcs only l5c pei. yard.
Ladies Kid Gloves, best makes, 81 rs per pair.
Real French Reps only 81 lOper yard.
English Merinos only 9)c per yard.
French Merinos only 81 50per yard.
Children's Merino Hose Zoe per pair, or So per
dozen.
Ladies' and gents Hose, full line at low prices.
Ladies linen hem stitch handkerchief, only
35c eacn.
aides plain linen Handkerchiefs only 81 per
dozen.
Also full line OF Cluny Laces, Trimmings.
Buttons, Shawls, Cloaks, Gents Clothing, Fur
nishing Goods and Plantation Supplies.
Wholesale buyers will find we can offer them
inducements both as regards prices and terms.
Our stock is large and well assorted. Remem-
Der our number.
ELSON BROS,
4S 297 Main street.
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TALK In EUROPE.
The American Crisis-Prof New
man on a Coup d'Etat.

The following letter is furnished by
Mr.. I. W. Barker, to the London Neics ::
No. ]. DOVER PLACE, CLIFTON.
BRIsT,L. September IL. 1866.
"MY DEAR Mr.. BARKER: read with
much interest and momentary relief
Gen. Neal BOWS letter to you on the
impossibility of a coup detat from An
drew johnson. Second thoughts showed
me how easily Southern forces adequate
to any imaginable coup detat, with
Robt. Lee to head them, could be con-
centrated in Washington. After this |
read Gen. Sheridan's letter on the New
Orleans massacre, which the President
suppressed. This fact and other docu-
ments prove Andrew Johnson's compile
ity in the massacre and his public
declaration that the Congress, so-called,
is no Congress, is plain declaration of
war on his part
II cannot think that Neal Dow, or his
correspondent (who may have written
before all this came OUT, knew the facts.
If they did, the greater their sense of Sc
curity, the more terrible their danger, /
believe. 1t all comes from Mr.. Lincoln's
New Orleans reconstruction, and MI.
Garrisons infatuated support of him.
Happily, Mr.. Garrison has been right
this whole year; but Mr.. Beecher and
the Hon. Henry Wilson went quite
wrong, and their influence has been
something 1.-THE Hon. H. Wilson's, / be-
lieve, very great to delude Congress
into position in which it has no longer
any legal and constitutional means of ac-
ton. / say it is situated now exactly as
was Hungary in lS48, the certain and
helpless victim of traitorous executive,
unless it makes its revolutionary COM
mittee, and puts its Kossuth at the head.
1t now must appear to foreigners as the
insurgent, or submit to be plunged in
horrors Unreasonable. In every case l
fear that the coming struggle will make
the past seem small. There is no cruelty
80 great, or SO mad, as to put back into
power, under the idea Of clemency, men
Of Unsuitable ambition, who. to crafty it,
have plunged their country into civil
war. This is what Mr.. Lincoln did, and
never lived to undo the evil; in fact, his
very last project was to do the same evil
thing which he called clemency in still
worse degree. Without this, no Andrew
johnson in the world would have wrought
these terrible ENVIRONMENTS
Truly yours, F. W. NEWMAN
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THE COTTON TAX.
Additional Regulations.

The following additional regulations
upon the subject have been adopted for
securing the payment Of the taxes As
affording the measure Of relief sought for,
parties DESTROYS Of bringing cotton to sea
ports in other places for Shipment from
other districts, will be allowed to do so,
upon executing and delivering to the Col
lector Of the district where such seaport
or place is situated, bond with two or
more parties, approved by the Collector
receiving it, conditioned for the pay
ment Of the tax on all cotton for which
permits may be granted by the Assessor
Of the district in which such cotton
may be grown. This bond must be exc
cuted in penal sum equal to double the
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LOFLAND.

The message of Mayor LoFLASD is the
theme of much praise. 1t cuts like q
knife right through the abuses of years,
and affords the people of the city hope
that wisdom and economy have acceded
to authority. LoFLAND is a stirring
man. and sensible one, and wo to those
who shall fail in the discharge of their
official duties to the public. When
energy and good sense take hold of
public affairs, the public pulse beats with
a new life.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25
TIE MEANING OF NEGRO SUFFRAGE.

Win any honest Republican deny, says
the Newark Journal, that WENDELL
PHILLIPS is the fair exponent Of the
principles and interests Of his party?
WENDELL PHILLIPs-who, after Boosting
that "for fifteen years he had tried to
carry fifteen States out Of the Union,"
and that the commencement of the war
was the fruition Of his hopes in regard
to an irrepressible conilict"-was re-
ceived in Washington with grand ova-
ton, the Senate even comforting upon
him the honor Of an adjournment to re-
ceive him upon its floor, where he was
welcomed with open arms by the Vice
President Of the United States This
same WEEDELL PHILLIPS IN his recent
speech in Boston said:
Negro suffrage meant a score Of negro
Conqressmen sitting in The House OF
Representatives. 1t means colored
merchants in New Orleans, and colored
Senators in Columbia Il means negro
Representatives sharing in making rail
road laws and other lava IL means
social equality, and that was where the
Southerner met the question. Social
equality follows hard on the heel Of the
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A CARD.
M EDICAL.
Something New Under the Sun.
A New Era in Medicine.
TET THE SUFFERING AND DISEASED
l raad tho folloVirU.

r EFT THE SUFFERING AND DISEASED
IL read the following:
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Let all who can believe facts, and can have
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Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-slx.
personally came Joseph Haydock to me. known
as such. and being duly sworn, deposed as fol-
lows: That he is the sole general agent for the
United State and deDendenoies thereof, Tor pre-
partitions or MEDICINES known as MASHlEL'o
PILLS and SALVE, and that the following
certificates are yerbatum copies TO the best OF
his knowledge and belief.
fL.Sl JAMES SMEITRE, Notary Public,
Wall Street, New York.
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June |, 1866. ZIG Avenue d.
This is to certify that was discharged from
the army with Chronic Diarrhea, and have
been cured be DR.. Maggiel's Pills.
WILSON HARVEY,
New York. April Z, 1865. q Pitt Street
The following is an interesting case of man
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melted iron into a flask that was damp and wet
caused an explosion The melted iron was
thrown around and on him in perfect shower,
and he was burnt dreadfully. The, following
certificate was given to me by him ABOUT eight
weeks after the aecident:
New YoRK. Jan. IL, 1865.
My name is Jacob Hardy / am an iron foun-
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last; my burns healed but had running sore
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Salve, and it cured me in few weeks. This is
all true. and any body can now see me at jack
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j. HARDY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25

MA. The State Department has re-
ceived an importent treaty from Japan
which is very liberal in its terms of com
mercial intercourse with that corAltry.
1t has been ratified by Japan. and will
be laid before the Senate in secret ses-
sion for ratification on the meeting Of
Congress.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25

B6~ There are rumors of an alleged
discovery of the plans of the Radicals to
impeach and depose the President A
large force of the Boys in Blue we're to
be sent to Washington to protect and
aid Congress in its schemes. A general
distribution of arms throughout the West
had been made by the Radical Govern
ors. The story is startling, if true.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25

r0- The Congressional elections in
Texas took place on the 18th. Returns
received thus far show the vote to be very
small As far as heard from, BRADSHAW
leads EFFRRsoE in the first district
0cHILTREE, SO far, is ahead in the second.
Very little interest was taken in the
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n@- A convention Of eight hundred
Confederate soldiers was held in Gallo
way county, Mo-, in which they de-
nOunced the Missouri registry law as
tyrsnnous, but resolved to abide by it
and trust to the Conservatives to restore
their rights.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Stanton to Resign-Sherman to
Succeed Him.

WASHINGTON, October 23.-The actual
facts regarding the rumored resignation
Of Secretary Stanton are as follows: He
is now engaged in making out his re-
port, and as soon as it is finished be will
undoubtedly retire. His resignation
has been precipitated BY the dis
covery lately made that Mr..
Stanton has filed nearly all the vacan-
cies in the regular army without the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25

s4-It is rumored that the Tycoon Of
japan died recently at Jeddo. A son Of
Prince MILO is mentioned as his most
probable successor. He is said to be a
man OF great energy, and in favor Of
foreign intercourse.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25

pG~ At q Radical convention held in
Chattanooga on Monday, Mr.. JoHS An
DERsoS was nominated to represent
Hamilton in the lover branch Of the
General Assembly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25

nG-" Brick" PoxERoY will visit the
Southern States during the winter, and,
we trust, will be welcomed with friendly
hands to hospitable homes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25

ballot-box, and the South knows it, and
she resists negro suffrage for what must
follow IL
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-25
DIR. MAGGIEL'S PILLS
Each Box Contains Twelve Pills,
ONE Pill is a DOsE

ONE PILL is a DOSE. ~
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WHAT THE PATIENTS SAY OF
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Extracts from Various Letters
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of the celebrated artists, Bingham
Bros, is, they alse know that the best
pictures are taken there, but they do not
know that the gallery has been reftted
and redecorated in splendid manner,
that magnificent Brussels carpet has
been laid down, new furniture procured,
the walls elegantly papered, end, best Of
all, that an improvement has been made
in the skylight whereby subdued and
mellow light is introduced into the studio
that cannot fail to improve any picture
taken. They have also had some new
scenery painted and persons can have
their choice, being taken in doors or out,
or looking out of window. With all
these advantages and the 6rstclass ar
lists that are always to be found there, it
will not surprise us il the Magnolia Gal
lery retains its reputation for turning
out the best pictures for some time to
come. Ladies, call at the gallery corner
of Adams and Main streets and inspect
the many pictures that have been pro.
nounced by the best judges both beautiful
and true.
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cent discount; ffteen dry bills, q pcr eopt
discounts Today bills, & por cent discount.
Gold Is in great demand.
The Banks buy gold to-day at 3jc. Silver
Csc buying, SOC selling.
Interest bearing Notes improve as the inim
est accrues. Dates Of June, 1864, command
ITO; of July. 1854. lO9h of August, 1874,
100; Of October. 1864. lO71a Of December ISL,
lOS; Of May, 1865. 41Sc prem.
City Scrip and Coupons. 6S to 75c.
Mississippi Cotton Money. zoe.
There is a continued good demandfof Union
Bank notes at 70 buying, aud 70 selling.
Planters Bank notes are bought at 90 and
sold at 81. '' M et
Bank of Tennessee notes are dull and heavy.
with no demand, though it is now conceded that
Il dates. irr espective of signatures will be ae-
knowledged in liquidating prior to May. 1861.
Cotton Market.
There was little business done in Cotton this
morning what little changed hands being forced
sales:
Ordinary. .26a27 Mddling. 33
Good Ordinary go. 29G2g Strict Middline-}itf-
low Mddling...-30G3l Good Middiing-58-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-06-01

SOMETHING GoOD.-Those who believe
that drinking good liquors improve the
constitution are informed that at the
Empire saloon, No lS Jefferson street,
and the Bluff City saloon, No. II Jefer-
son street, back Of Larry Harmstad's s,
the best can be obtained at reduced prices
They keep the most select brands of the
choicest liquors that are imported to or
made in this country, and those who
doubt it, should call and be convinced
that it is fact jl-2t
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The Port of Memphis.

We have to make the same report Of
the river as yesterdsy-still falling about
twelve inches per day The weather this
morning was rainy, miserable and muddy,
rendering the transaction of business
unpleasant, Improbable and almost i'm
possible
The following are the arrivals and de-
psrtures since our last.
Arrivals.
Juls, New Orleans
Indiana, New Orleans
Ruth, St Louis
Flora, Presidents Island