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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31

which connrms our opinion that tho
Radicals are atrennously bent on I'm
parchment; aud the result can be moth
ing less than hideous civil war in which
men win be eager 10 cut the throats OF
their nearest neighbors. IL will be no
such war as that from which we have
emerged, in which the eombatants were
separated by geographical lines. There
is no part OF the country in which multi
tudcs of the best citizens do not consider
tho cause of the President as that of the
Constitution. IL an attempt is made TO
depose him upon mere partisan grounds,
they will conclude that tie supremacy
Of the Constitution may as well be vim
dicated, once for all, and will accept the
risks and perils Of maintaining it,
Per eonha-Forney's paper contains
the following correspondence:
The arguments against impeachment
are strongly urged even in loyal circles
Among them is one that II Johnson
should be removed, an election for Pres.
ident must take place in November OF
this year, which, Of course must be fol-
lowed by another in November Of 1868.
The general opinion is that the Commit
tee on the Judiciary will make up tire.
mendous indictment against him, and
that Congress will simultaneously strip
him of all power for harm, and then per-
nit him 10 serve out his term.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31
PUBLIC LEDGER.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
GENERAL ALCoRN.

In a recent number of this paper we
gave some extracts of speech of Gen.
Alcorn's before:the Mississippi Legisla'
ture They were from report by the
Clarion, and represented him as favoring
the Constitutional Amendment, and as
declaring that he preferred utilization
with the Radicals to coalition with the
Democrats of the North. In the Clarion
of Tuesday, we find letter over his
name alleging that he has been misrep-
resented. Having copied into this paper
part of the report of our contemporary,
we now give Gen. Alcorn the benefit of
his correction. He says:
lam represented as having said that |
preferred political utilization with the
Radicals North, to a coalition with the
Democrats in the same section; here lies
an error in the report. | expressly adj
vised against any coalition or utilization
with any political party or faction North.
He proceeds to combat the Democratic
party at some length, and maintains that
its issues are dead. In reference to the
Constitutional Amendment, he says:
In speaking Of the Amendment as a
whole, said: That / was opposed to its
adoption-that it was submitted to US
upon the simple question of its merit;
that no Southern man could vote for it
in this form-that there was no induce.
ment. But that if the Constitutional
Amendment was submitted to the South
in the form of final adjustment of all
questions IN the way of restoration, then
the question Of its adoption was another
and different ene-it then became a
question of diplomacy, a question of ex-
pediency, and in this spirit had no hes
itation in declaring my willingness to
adopt at once, the first, second, fourth
and fifth sections of that amendment,
and stood ready to debate the justice
and the propriety Of the third but that
twas only in the spirit Of finality that
/ would act, and with this view, instead
of rejecting the amendment, | would
memorabilia Congress delegate a COM
mission with authority to approach the
Government of the United States in the
name of the State of Mississippi, and re-
specially ask the United States Govern
ment to make the first, second, fourth
and fifth sections of the amendment a
finality, and if not this, then fix their
finality, and when fixed our duty would
be to consider the demand as became
men who recognize and appreciate the
responsibility of their position.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE NOON DISPATCHES

NEw York, January 3l.-Movements
are afoot to establish commission to be
appointed by the Legislature, the mem
bers whereof are to remain in Washing
ton, and bring before the Supreme Court
all acts of Congress which affect South
ern interests.
Governor Wade has vetoed the New
Jersey bribery bill.
A Washington special says that Com
missioner Rollins is in conference with
the Ways and Means Committee regard
ing the revenue tax bill There has been
great falling off in the revenue receipts
during the last sixty days, and indica-
tions of still further diminuton on &C.
count of general stagnation of business;
the Committee, therefore, decided not to
pass upon any articles until the tariff
bill is disposed Of and then it is likely
little or no reduction will be made on
leading articles.
The Sub. Committee is still examining
the whiskey tax. Mr.. Rollins favors
stringent legislation as preventive of
frauds. The Committee is very much
divided and it is doubtful what they will
recommend
A Washington special says quite
number of leading Southern men are in
the city, arranging a new plan of adjust
ment, which has been approved by
number of Republicans, based upon the
constitutional amendment.
WASHINGTON, January 3l.-R. H. HUI
bert was nominated for Controller of
Currency.
The Ways and Means Committee added
tanned leather to the free list.
The President has recently said to
number of persons that the worst thing
he ever did in his life was to pardon
Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans.
The Court of Claims has case before
1t involving TWO million dollars damages
claimed of the Government for the
seizure of large tract of land at Co
lumbia River Cascades, Washington
Territory, which has since been occu-
pied as military post The land be-
longed to George W. johnson.
FRANKFORT, KY, Jan. 81 Carrot
Davis was elected United States Senator
yesterday.
LOUISVILLE, January 3l.-The river is
stationary, with three feet eight inches
water on the falls. No arrivals or de-
partures. Weather cloudy; mercury 81
deg. barometer 1851. The ice is still
heavy, but will soon be broken up.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31
MINERAL WAX.

In addition to the other numerous and
varied products found in the State OF
Texas, a beautiful white mineral wax has
recently been discovered on the Island OF
Madre, at the mouth of the Brozos river,
in that State Professor Wander Weyde,
of this city, has specimens OF this newly
discovered material. 1t is found in large
quantities, and fine bitumen, heavy
petroleum and salt also exist upon the
same island.
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PROM SOUTH CAROLINA.

The Charleston Mercury Of the 25th,
contains the following in reference to
negro testimony in the courts of South
Carolina: Some curiosity and speeula-
ton were naturally excited in regard to
the practice of receiving negro testi-
mony, now for the FIRST time in force in
this city and it has been seen with great
satisfaction that, so far, the new law has
been attended with more than the ex-
pectsd success. The colored witnesses
appear to be freely impressed with the
obligations placed upon them, and their
evidence has been generally given with
an evident desire to tell the whole truth
and nothing but the truth. There was
but little tendency to prolixiiy and dis
cursiveness, and the testimony has, in
the late criminal trials, been clear, intel.
ligible, and to the point.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31
M EpIcAL.
Something New Under the Sun.
A New Era in Medicine.
ET THE SUFFERING AND DISEASED

4 EFT THE SUFFERING AND DISEASED
i ! read the following
Let all who have been given up by Doctors,
and spoken OF ~ incurablc. read the following;
Let all who can believe facts. and can have
fhith 10 evidence. read the f0llowingi
kao,0 al Men by these Presents, That on this
the twentieth day Of June. In the year of our
Lord ono thousand eight hundred and sixty-slx,
personally came Joseph Haydock 10 me, known
~ such, and being duly sworn. deposea as fol-
lows That he y the sole general agent for tho
United State and dependencies thereof, for pre-
partitions or medicines known NJ MAG0lELS
PILLS and SALVE. aud that the following
certificates are ysroatum copies To the best Of
IL. 81 JAMES SMElrRE, Notary Public,
Wall street, Now York.
DIR. MAGoIKL; take my pen 10 write Won of
my great relief, and that the awful pain Ia my
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June !, 1855. ll6 Avenue ID.
This Is to certify that was discharged from
the army with Chronic Diarrh@a, and have
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New York. April 7, 1868. q Pitt Street
The following Is an interesting case of A lnnn
melted iron into a flask that was damp and i wot
caused an explosion. The melted iron was
thrown around and on him in perfect shower.
and ho was burnt dreadfully. The following
certificate was given 20 me by him about, eight
weeks after the accident:
NEw YoRK. Jan. II, 1866.
My name is Jacob Hardy; am an iron foun-
der; was badly burnt by hot iron in November
last; my burns healed but had a running sore
on my leg that would not heal tried Maggiels
Snlve, and IL cured me In a few weeks. This ia
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4 HApnW
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A PROTECTIVE ITEM.

A correspondent Of the New York
EUeHiRg Post writes; When | was a few
days ago at Washington, a member Of
Congress from the West showed me a
letter, obviously written in perfect good
faith by a mechanic in a village in Min
nesoia The good mechanic implored
the Congressman TO see that a law be
passed excluding the manufactured ar
ticles coming to his village from the
East Labor, says he, is much cheaper
in the East, machinery so mach ad-
vanced, that It is impossible to compete
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31
THE INEVITABLE YANKEE.

The Philadelphia Ledger tells the fol-
lowing Some time ago we related a
sheep story" in which it was stated
that Vermonter went to Ohio to sell
black sheep which he said we're merinos,
and having secured high prices for them
the Ohio farmers thought they had a
prize until it rained, when the color all
washed off the sheep, and one of the in
dignant farmers had the Vermonter ar
rested for fraud. We thought at the
time that it was libel on the proverbial
Yankee cuteness thus to be circumvented
by an 0hioan, and so the sequel has
proved. The Vermonter has, according
to the last report, not only got himself
out of Jail and proved his sheep to be
genuine merinos, but he has also got his
Ohio prosecutor "a Jail on charge of
false imprisonment How the rain water
test was disposed Of, however, is not re-
ported.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31
THE SONGS OF A PEOPLE.

People are fond of quoting old Flelch-
err aphorism about the songs OF a peo'
pie; but the true reading Of it is almost
unknown. 1t is found in Fletchers
poetical works, and reads as follows :
al said that knew a very wise man SO
much of Sir Charles sentiments that he
believed IL a man were permitted to
make all the ballads, he need not care
who should make all the laws of a ma
tion
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TORN BY his OWN DOGS.

Our classic contemporary, the Peoria
Democrat, is responsible for this para
graph: There was said to have been one
Mr. Action in ancient times, who for
looking too closely into some matters
that Diana desired to keep private, was
clothed in the skins Of the game which
he pursued, and torn in pieces by his
own dogs. History repeats itself, and
very much such a tragedy is now in pro-
cess of enactment as that OF which Ac-
teon was the subject The Presi-
dent has looked too steadiastly
and understaudingly into some of
the things which his party is DESTROYS of
keeping from the public gaze, and he is
now disguised by his friends, by
throwing ever him their own mantles of
falsehood, and thus in that character,
the dogs--his own dogs-that he has
reared and fed, are let loose upon him,
to tear him in pieces, to worry and de-
your hin. The application is scarcely
fguratiye.
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MIss1ss1ppI ExEMrTIONs.

An act TO exempt certain articles from
execution passed by the Mississippi Leg
islature, November 1865, and vetoed by
the Governor, has been declared copsti-
tutional by the High Court of Errors and
Appeals of that State. It's provisions
are remarkably liberal, as it exempts
from seizure aud sale, among other
items, two hundred and forty acres of
land, including the dwelling and other
buildings thereon; the horses, mules and
implements necessary TO carry on farm
OF that extent; and where the party re-
sides in city or town, four thousand
dollars worth of real and personal prop
erty, comprising the proper homestead
and other buildings connected there
with, household and kitchen fur
nilure, provisions for the family
and forage for the stock for one
year. The following articles are also ex-
empt: The necessary tools of a me
chanic, and FIVE hundred dollars worth
Of material used in carrying on his bust
ness the implements Of laborer used
in carrying on his employment; the
books of a student required for the com
pletion of his education the wearing APP
parel Of every person and the library of
all persons saddles and brides suifi-
Gent for the necessary use of the family
also, the instruments of surgeons and
dentists, used in their profession the
arms and accoutrements of every white
person, and ali books and apparatus in
schools and colleges.
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Inpsachment-E1eilipg statsnsnts.

The New York Herald, Of the 18th
inst, says:
No preordained eveniin human affairs
is more certain to come 10 pass than the
impeachment and removal Of President
Johnson from office. This thing will be
done because it has become a necessity
10 the contamination Of this revolution
Congress has no alternative when the
suspension of It's authority over the rebel
States for two years yet TO come ~
morally certain under President John
son. II says the present House will i'm
peach. The Senate,s after March 9Th,
will elect Fessenden as presiding officer,
will then arraign and suspend the Presi-
dent. and Fessenden at once take his
place. Before May, johnson will be con-
vicled, and Grant and Farragut chosen
By special election 10 I'll cut his term.
The New York World, Of the same
date, says:
The prospects OF the country have
never. even during the darkest periods
Of he war. seemed 90 alarming as at
present From veil informed sources IN
Washington we received intelligence
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31
THE LIVE 10 sTRAEGLE.

When the surrendered South was tram
pied over BY a half million Of Federal
soldiers, says the Mobile Tribune that
vas the opportunity to fay and disem-
bowel her In that terrific last actof the
war-drama she miEhthave been strangled,
and her piteous cries Tor mersy-would
have been drowned by the roar Of Grants
lannon's And she would have been, had
not God put . soldier hear; ia Grants
hosom. ana . patriot in the White House
a Wellington. A john the Bspiist born
u ,be woman Of Babylon Andrew
r,h,.on made President By the Radical
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31
SETTING THE CONSTITUTIONS TO MUSIC.

The Paris Figaro has been making
fun of our Constitution, having it set to
music in the following style: All the
newspapers have said that an American
composer, well known at Boston-Mr.
Greecler-was occupied in setting the
Constitution of the United States to
music This adaptation has just been
given in public The performance lasted
eight hours. Our correspondent gives
us the following curious particulars in
regard to this strange music: The pre-
amble to the Constitution is a majestic
recitative, well sustained by alto and
contra-basso voices The first article is
written for tenor voice Other articles
are written some for basso, some for So
prano, some for baritone. At the end of
each article the recitative of the pre-
amble is taken up again in chorus
NJ. Greecler has betrayed his opinions
and has outdone himself in the article
relating to State rights This is written
in minor key for base and tenor, and
there is a struggle of voices and instru-
ments which might make the author Of
Tannbauser jealous. The tenor who
appears to sustain the doctrine of State
rights is eventually overcome by the
bass, whilst the small flutes which sup
port the tenor wage fierce war with the
trombones and bassooRs, the auxiliaries
of the bass. The violins, lost and fright
ened, do the accompaniment in tremulo
and pizzicati. Finally the tenor and the
flutes yield to the heavier instruments,
and the return of peace is celebrated by
the violins in slow arpeggio. The con-
stitutional amendments are treated as
figures, aud serve an introduction to q
formidable finale, in which the base drum
aud the tam-tam play important roles
Did not Jefferson say the Constitution o
the United States was an admirable sym
phony2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31

s0-" Simon Cameron" says an ex-
change "began life as a jouraeyman
printer" We are not to understand by
this that he literally entered the world
with composing stick in his hand, but
only that he went to case as soon as he
was old enough to know how to steal
sorts and duplicate his proof
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31

n@-The Lynchburg Virsinidn says ::
at has again been decided that the at
tempts of express companies, baggage
men, and railway companies, to make
arbitrary limitations to their responsible
ity as carriers, when losses occur, will
not hold good in law"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31

s65- A freedman fell in love with
freedwoman, in Danville, aud the pater-
nal "parient being averse to the match,
the "loveyers" eloped into North Caro-
lima, where they were made bone of
one bone, and flesh of one flesh" The
Register says this is the first affair OF
the kind on record.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31

R8 A letter in the Savannah NeIcs,
from an agent of the Havana telegraph
line, who is now in South Florida,
says that part of the country is destined
before many years to TEEN with the
richest West India products-tobacco
and sugar of the finest qualities, and
tropical fruits of every description.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31

H@ A jollifcation over the establish
ment of negro suffrage in the District of
Columbia took place at the Cooper Inst-
tute. in New York, on Wednesday even
ing. Addresses were made by Mr.. George
Thompson, the English orator, and
others.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-31

with them, and all the MECHANICS ont
there will be ruined. Do you ind II
difficult 10 believe this2 assure you
have seen the letter.
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MARRIIcD.

PARKER-O'CALLEN. Married on We'd
uesday evening. a the Second Presbyterian
Church. By the Rev. Mr.. -, Mr.. S. NJ. Par
kcr and Ms Katie O'Caiien.
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WHAT THE PATIENTS SAY OF
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rrUE SECOND SESSION OFTHIS SCHOOL
4 viii open on Monday, January 18th. lsoi.
Terms 81 tuition and payment, same a. last
9egrion. ANNIE u. HALE.
IT Principal.
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DYEIYG AND CLEANING

to perfection heretofore unknown in this
country. ..,-,,. 49,.
sATINs, MORE ANTIQUES, in pieces,
sbsdc iikcwise. CREPE SlIAWLS, CLOAkS,
MFRiNOs, DRESS and WORSIED GOODS,
OSTRICH FEATHERS. GLOVES AND
LACES.
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MOIre Antiques Re-Watered.

silks dyed in those NEWLY INVENTED
NIGHT COLOkS FOR PARTY DRESSES
iis 1hin and PRINTED in he most fa.hionsbie
Yattcrs-
Ladies and 6entlomsn's Wearing Apparel
Of every description trimmed waddel " lined.
We clean without ripping or iniunuE the MAJ
Murccn Curtains dyed and cleaned like new.
Blankets and Tablccloth cleaned and newly
finished
The BEAUTIFUL FINISH We give ALL
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fioals received ard rsturued By Express.
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DIR. MAGGIEL'S PILLS

Each Box Contains Twelve Pills.
ONE PILL IS A DOSE.
&C. NoTIcB.-None genuine without the en-
graved trade mark around each pot or box
signed by DOCTOR J. MAGGIEL, New York
to counterfeit which is felony.
~ Sold by all respectable Dealers in Med
icines throughout the United States and Cana
das. ut % cents ner hox or not i-i4q
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ADJUSTMENTS.
NEW MEMPHIS THEATRE.

Lessee aud Managor"....--.W. @. THOMPSON
Treasurer. ID. STEINKUHL