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Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-13

NASHVILLE, June u, P. NJ
CoTTON.-The cotton market has not
yet recovered from the backset given it by
the unfavorable news from liverpool and
New York the close Of last week. A little
better feeling, however, prevailed to-day,
the advices from those markets getting no
worse; and sales were made as follows: 8
at l9c. 4at 2I5c. and 4 at 2I2c per H.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-13
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

Office Hours.
From 7A.M.to6P.M. Sundays. Z TO A. n.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
FoRNEY's REGRET.

The Louisville Courier says: For
ney's Press expresses regret that neither
Wilson, Kelley, nor any Of the rest Of
the Yankee Radical agitators have yet
spoken at Natchez, Vicksburg or Jack
son, where, it says, free speech is less
tolerated than in other parts of the South,
and where light is consequently most
needed. 1t is quite plain that the Jaco-
bin leaders will never be satisfied with
the success Of their Southern mission
aries, unless some of them succeed in
losing their worthless lives at the hands
of an exasperated people.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
SHERIDAN ON WELLS.

~ say now, unquestionably," says
General Sheridan, that Gov. Wells is a
political trickster and disunionist. l
have seen him myself, when | first came
to this command, turn out all the Union
men who had supported the Government
and put in their stead rebel soldiers.
Some of them had not DOTTED the gray
uniform. I have seen him again during
the July riot of 1866 stink away where |
could not find him to give him guard
instead of coming out as a manly repre-
sentative of the State and joining those
who were DESTROYS of preserving the
peace. l have watched him since, and
his conduct has been as sinuous as the
mark left in the dust by the movement
of the snake. ! say again he is dishon-
est"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
M THEY KNOW

Many Southern negroes--we mean the
better class, are going blindly into q
party that will prove, in the end 70 pc
the worst enemies Of their race we
wish TO ask these people few very PLAIN
questions. Do you know, or do you not
know, that the Southern white Radicals
are men who have little or no interest in
the South, and that they are here for the
purpose of enriching themselves at the
EXPENSE of the Southern people, bo'h
white and black ?
Do you know, or do you not know
that to affect this object, two things are
necessary. First, the disiranchisemen'
of the white man, and second, the en-
frapcbisement OF the black man1
Are you, who were lately slaves, and
possessed no right to vote, now prepared
to say that the white men shall not vote,
and thus justify the policy that deprived
you of civil rights
Are you prepared to say that you are
opposed to participation by the white
men of Tennessee in the government OF
the State ?
Do you propose, as you have the
Registrations majority, to seize the State
and set up government from which the
white man is to be excluded 7 at
If you are not in favor Of these things,
do you not know that in voting the'Rad'
ical ticket you indorse them2 i''
How are the colored people of the
South, who own no property, to support
themselves -
Will the Governments support them out
of the revenues collected from the white
men who cannot vote, or will the white
Radicals give them employment
Who employ the great body of the
colored people of Memphis 2 Do the
Radical leaders employ them2 Are they
not employed by the Southern people /;
and if they we're forced to depend upon
Radicals for employment, would they not
starye2
Having the power in your hands, do
you think you can disfranchise Southern
white men and then obtain employment
from them
Do you think they would not
prefer the services of white men, who
would be their friends, rather than col
ored men who prove to be their enemies 7
Do you not think that your vote should
20 with your interests 2 Does your in
terest, and the interest of your wives
and children, lie in the direction of the
Radical party2
When you wish to build church or
school house, do you 90 to the Radical
leaders for subscriptions, or do you rely
on your old white friends 2
If you, turn your backs on them, do
you suppose they will ever give you a
dollar2 We tell you, they will not.
Does it not, after considering all things,
appear plain to you, that you should
support the Conservative party2 We
ask you to think of these things
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
A BLoopLEss BATTLE.

Those who have read the amusing
pages of Knickerbocker' history of New
York, have not forgotten the celebrated
battle between the Dutch and the Swiss,
which lasted all day, but in which no one
was either killed or wounded. That
pleasant fiction has found an exact re-
semblance in bloodless battle that
occurred at Wheaton, in Illinois. Itgrew
out Of the late Judicial election. The
affair is thus reported: The election
terminated in a fight in no less than
three townships, that have been remark
able during the last six years for the nom
combatant disposition of their inhabi'
tants. At Wheaton, where the main
battle was fought, stones, clubs, brick,
bats, knives and reyolvers were used
with dangerous freedom. Among other
instances denoting the ferocious nature
of the fight in that pastoral village, it is
related that two persons, in the midst Of
a shower of stones, fred at each other
with revolvers until the weapons of both
were empty, yet neither party was hit
The circumstance proves that the re-
volvers in Wheaton are of very inferior
kind, or else the people who use them
are most wretched shots As the inhab-
itants Of Wheaton are mostly loyal per
sons, it is presumed they are unaceus-
toned to the use of firearms, and that
this accounts for the fact that, although
the battle seems to have ragged aN hour
or so, nobody was hurt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
TIE POTION REACHED.

The Chicago Times, in an article on
the backdown of the Impeachment Com
mittee, says: Butler said the President
was party to the assassination conspi-
raey. Ashley said he had pardoned de-
serters and paid them bounties to vote
the Democratic ticket. Blow said be had
usurped powers belonging to Congress.
Thad. Stevens said be had defrauded the
treasury by ordering the property Of
rebels which had been confscated to be
restored to them. Zach. Chandler said
he had sold pardons to abandoned wo-
men. Detective General Baker said that
be could prove what Zach. Chandler
said. All the newspapers of the party
Of freedom said he had been guilty Of
all and every act and thing charged
against him by Butler and Ashley and
Blow and Thad Stevens and Zach.
Chandler and Detective General Baker,
and had been guilty also Of innumerable
greater crimes, to which clouds of re-
construction witnesses would testify. 1t
was moreover maintained by the most
loyal" men in the country that the
proof that be had committed any one Of
the acts above recited, or any one Of the
numberless crimes whereof he was ae-
cused by Radical stump speakers and
newspapers, would be sufficient ground
for his impeachment and opposition from
office
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE NOON DISPATCHES
FROM NEW YORK.

NEw York, June ga Paris special
says that the Americans there will, to-
morrow, present, through Gen. Dix, m
address to the Gear. At service held in
the Russian church in Paris, to-day, the
Gear, grand duchess and the sons Of the
Gear attended, offering thanksgiving for
their escape. After the service the sons
embraced their father with much emo
ton. Both Emperors also embraced each
other. The Cars suite advised him TO
return, but he refused. The assassin
showed no sorrow for the crime he had
attempted, but only expressed regret at
his failure, saying; 81 wished TO relieve
the world of Gear, and the Gear of the
remorse which must weigh upon him."
A Mexican dispatch says it appears
that General Lopez, represented boz
som friend of Macmillan, sold out
the entire Imperial concern for one
hundred AID forty eight thousand in
gold; and the work WINS So VEL arranged
that Macmillan and entire army, in
GLIDING $50, 900 men, thirteen General
officers and FIVE hundred officers of
inferior rank, were handed over
to Escobado. Macmillan, however,
acted heroically. He sent his sword to
Escobedo, STIMULATING that he should not
be subject to insult, but awarded the
consideration due prisoner, and if any
one must be shot that he should be the
first led to execution. Up to latest adj
vices there had been no executions.
A trotting match for $50, OOO-mile
heats to wsgons-between Dexter and
Lady Thorne, ever the Fashion Course
yesterday, was won by Dexter in three
straight heats, the two last being splen-
didly contested and the second being the
fastest ever made to wagons-time, 2;32,
2:24, 2:2S.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
LIGHT COMING.

The 81. Louis Republican says; Lit
tie by little, portion Of the Republican
press is getting enlightened as to the
real designs of the Radical leaders, and
as to the prospects of the country,
bruised and crippled as tits by the policy
of these artifcers of ruin. One of these
journals Is now compelled to the confess
sion that the War Department now ex-
ponds twice as much as was the whole
cost Of the Government in Buchahan's
time. Half of the whole cost is in keep
ing an army at the South, where itwould
have cost nothing if the States had been
restored, as they could have been ayear
ago as we'll as to-day, and should have
been as soon as honorable after the war
closed. Those who advocate or threaten
the continued barring out of these States,
favor the continued oppression Of all the
people by the taxation so high that
business withers and dies beneath it, and
it must land US in the end in financial
crash that will sweep the country. When
that shall come it viii not be difficult to
know who and what is the cause.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
WHY Is TT

Why is it, asks the New York Tribune,
that in the cities alone riotous demon
STATIONS occur2 In the country, where
there may be said to be no conStabulary,
everything goes on with perfect order
and quiet. The New York World has
found the true solution to the question
in the fact that on the plantations the
negro is brought into contact with
Southern whites only, whereas, in the
cities incendiary Radicals have free &C.
cess to him, and are exerting all their
energy and ingenuity to breed mischief.
If the World was living among us, it
could not have shown a better apprecia-
ton of the real source Of our troubles.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
MARtsIIrD.

BEDFORD-McLEAN-on the 22l of May,
at the residence Of tho brides father. In Gre
NADIA, Miss, Capt. II. L. Bedford, Of Memphis
and Miss Lou. Mclean, OF Grenada.
We wish you. Captain, with your fair bride,
much Of happiness. May the perfume Of sweet
est flowers Goat around you and yours, and
bedock the way Of your pilgrimage. and your
hopes be as bright and beautiful as the 1rst star
that gems the forehead Of the evening sky.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
EXIT STOKES.

The curtain has fallen on poor Bill
Stokes. Etheridge is poor trsgedian.
He kills his victims in the first or second
act. and thus spoils the play and cheats
the audience. The Duncan letter, with
which be stabbed poor Bill, should have
been reserved for the fifth act. But,
there may be this plea entered in Justi-
fication. The great play which Ether
idge is acting, is not cut and dried to his
hand. He has not simply to memorize
his part, fix his postures, modulate his
voice, and 60 forth, but he is composing
the play as he proceeds. The destruc-
tien of Stokes is probably a disposition
of the first of many characters who are
to succeed each other in rapid and san
culinary succession. Horace Maynard,
seeing his friend Stokes lying at the
gladiator's feet, sprang from behind the
scenes TO avenge his death, He came
on with his stage lstride learned
among the East Tennessee mountains,
and almost as r&yishing as that
of Tarquin. His person was i'm
posing and his bearing confident. Ad-
vancing with his blade pointed, he
plunged furiously forward, scowled,
stamped, CRASHED his teeth, received the
point of the hero's sword in his breast,
and rolled heavily on the stage. No.
two killed, and the curtain falls on the
second act. The greater part of the au-
dience are wild with delight. But the
other part wear faces that might once
have been round, but have now the APP
pearance OF having dripped into I'M
shapely masses of sorrow. The curtain
falls on the second act, and the orchestra
strikes up,
Hail to the chief who in triumph advances"
How will the play turn out2 That is
the question. There may be FIVE, there
may be ten more acts. Nobody can
saw. Meantime the audience become
impatient and rattle and roar, and roar
and rattle until all threatens to become
confusion. One by one, the long faces
sneak out and disappear, evidently op
pressed with a torturing fear that the
worst is yet to come. We don't think
so. The principal champions have been
disposed Of. The only men in the State
capable of debating with Etheridge, are
warmly supporting him There is not 9
Radical who can hope to succeed when
Maynard fails, or hope to live when
Stokes dies If any others shall be
found ambitious enough, and reckless
enough. to desire to receive the edge Of
the merciless blade of Etheridge, let then
step forth. Such may exist, butthe combat
will lose its dramatic interest They
will be men Of small caliber, and
all together contemplate in point o
proves And so ends the great farce o
opposing our champion on the stump
and so, we trust, will end the great out
rage inflicted on this State and sought t.
be made perpetual. Our resentment
stop when our enemy has finished biz
career and gone to his account With bis
sins and imperfecions, after that We
have nothing to do. Therefore it is that
our warfare with Stokes is over, and We
leave bin all to himself,
In the rraFe where an Eiieidss has laid
him"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
lsrIti i. reported for the seven hun

SGIt is reported for the seven hun :
dred and fortieth time that Fenian bands
are prowling about the Canadian border,
ready almost to make a demonstration.
Every time boy is sent out to drive up
the COWS, arumor goes forth through the
telegraphic world that a formidable force
of Fenians, all dressed in green, are
about to invade Canada.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
ruNERAL NorICEs

The friends and scquaintances Of B. NJ. Estes
are invited 10 attend the funeral Of his WIFE,
salHe J. Estes. from his residence on Union
avenue, a. O'Clock. this Saturday afternoon'
Services - Rev 2. d. Witherpoon- Car
riares viii leave Mr.. Holst's AZ pm.
The friends ans aesuaintAuees Of william
pendsr are respectfully Invited to attend ne
funorai Of Christian Pender, az nine e'eloek
sunday morning. from the Pair Groanas 2
Winchester Cemetery.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
County COurt..-May Term, 1867
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Sarf.RY CouNTY.

SHELBY COUNTY. J
rT,HE FOLLOWING RULES OF PRACTICE
Il in the Probate side of the County Court
have been adopted, and will DO strictly ad-
hered to. justice 10 all parties requiring their
enforcement: .N
LIST. All original suits or petitions must be
fled in the Clerks oice with bond fSs cost ST.
day Of the term. except In the case of non res
ident Administrators, Executors or Guardians,
whose petitions or applications may be received
and filed in the Clerk 8 office at any time during
the term.
"a. Ali cases shall be heard in the order in
which they stand on the Docket; and after a
case is called, and parties from any cause fail
TO appear, the case shall not BIO recalled until
every case on the Docket has been called.
Sd. All applications for Administration and
Guardianship must be made in writing, and If
for the appointment Of others than those who
by law are entitled to- the preference Of appoint
ment, must state the special ground on which
the application Is made.
4th. Parties entitled to administer or be ap-
pointed guardians in preference to those apply
ing TO be appointed, must be notified, either
by five days personal notice OF. four weeks in
some Memphis newspaper, of the intended APP
plication, before il will be acted on; and when
practicable, il is recommended to those apply
ing to obtain the assent IN writing Of those
having a superior right by law to be appointed.
9th. In all exparte applications to the Court,
the Court will require proof, By sworn testi-
mony, of the material facts on which the appli-
cation is based.
Reports and prepared settlements Of admin
istrators, executors and guardians. must, with
their vouchers, be filed in the Clerks office.
and one term elapse after the filing and before
confirmation, during which notice by personal
service or by publication four weeks in Mem
phis newspaper must be given distributes,
legatses, or other persons in interest, that they
may appear and resist the confirmation of the
same.
Ordered by the County Court that the " Rules
of Practice ofthe County Court be and the
same are hereby ordered to be published in two
of the Memphis daily newspapers. to-wit: The
Post and LEDGER, for three times; also in card
form for the convenience of citizens and attor-
neys. THOMAS LEONARD. Judge.
Attest: JOHN LoAGuE, Clerk. So
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
A PRECIOUS DOCUMENT FROM A INA
LITIAp CAPTAIN.

A PRECIOUS DOCUMENT FROM A ma
LITIA" CAPTAIN.
The following order from one Of Brown
10 VS. militia captains was served day
or two since on the gentleman named
the rein, at Bristol, East Tennessee. Mr.
Sha ngle, who is commanded to hold a
civil court in camp, is magistrate OF
that town, and the valiant Captain
Gresham is editor Of the East Tennessee
Union Flag, The same order was
served on two other magistrates. We
subjoin the document:
HpoRs. Co. A, lar REor STATE GUARD,
Car MAR BRIsfoL, Tenn, May Y, ls0l.J
j. S. shangle, EsO.;
DEAR SIR: You are hereby notified to
appear at these headquarters on to.mor-
row morning (2sth) at eight O'Clock, to
set with two other magistrates.
The case is "A man and his wife have
parted recently, aud the man takes from
| his wife a female infant only seven
months old. She applies to have the
infant restored to her. You will inform
Yourself in regard 10 the points OF law
which may be involved, and fail not to
report at the hour appointed. s
GEO EDGAR GRESHAM,
l. Captain Commanding Company.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08

pSThs people Of the old Bay Stale
are not lacking in a comfortable sort Of
appreciation Of what nature has done
for them. They realize that the special
dispensations which located Plymouth
Rock and Bupker Hill, and Lexington
and Concord, within their borders,
euneed very crediiable taste and sound
judgment on the part Of Providence.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08

t@-It Is stated that in his forthcoming
book JEFF Davis will expose all the facts
connected with the invasioa Of Mexico
By France, and the grounds Of hope for
the success Of that policy furnished by
the late rahslfon
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08

B@-The New York World, abiding to
Boutwell, going South, says: "The South
ern States have been ailing for some
time, but they have survived Colonel ).
Wilson and Judge Kelly, and now they
are getting Bout we'll
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08

S@some editor says "Gen. Pope,
who, during the war, had bis headquar-
ters IN tbe saddle, feet horse under the
saddle, and bottle Of whisky in each
pocke., has suppressed the Radical news
uauer Al Mobile /"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08

H~ Knoxville negroes are very indig
Anant at Brownlow because the last nun
Der Of the Why, in publishing the com
mittee Of arrangements for celebrating
the fourth Of July, omittedthe names Of
the colored members.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
no THE PEOPLE OF WEST TENNESSEE.

Hon. Emerson Etheridge, Conserva-
tive candidate for Governor, will address
the people of West Tennessee at the iol-
lowing time and places;
Purdy, Saturday, June 10Th.
Bolivar, Monday, June 18th.
Jackson, Tuesday, June 18th.
Humboldt, Thursday, June 10th.
Dresden, Saturday, June 22d.
Papers of the district are requested
10 publish the above list of appointments.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08

dTBrownlow has declared the regis
tration Of voters in Monroe county, East
Tennessee, to be uull and void. Monroe
is a Couservate county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
FROM RICHMOND.

RICHMOND, June 8.-The Presidential
party arrived here yesterday and were
escorted to the Spottswood by the Mayor
and Committee from the Common Coun
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08

B@The President has offered to give
q plot Of ground in Greenvilie' Ienn-'
10 The negroes Of that town as a site for
q school and church.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08

IA WIN. Hyde, one Of the editors Of
the St. Louis Republican, vas married
q Toronto recently. JEFF. Davis, Jubal
Early and other Southern celebrities
we're present
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.

TIVE OFFICES OF THE MISSISSIPPI
L and Tennessee Railroad have been re-
moved from the jackson Block to the Depot
foot of Main street. 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08
FROM ST. LOUIS.

ST. LOUIS, June 8.-The Senatorial
party returned yesterday, and a grand
banquet was given to them last night.
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-04
sHERIFF'S SALE.

Elizabeth X stout ct al gs VIM, H. Conovor ct al
Superior Court, Order Of Sale. Case 35s2
DURSUANr to an order of sale issued by the
l. superior Court within and for the county OF
Montgomery and state of Ohio. and 20 me dl
rected, J viii offer at public sale at the door Of
the Court House, in the city of Dayton, Ohio ON
Saturday March ., 1867,
At two O'Clock P NJ, the following real estate to.
wit; Situate in Montgomery COUNT Ohio heinp
part OF the northeast quarter of section three l3j
in township four (4) range hve (5l. east ,Sr
bounded by beginning at stone in the north line
of said quarter in the center Of the Salem Road
and running rOm thence with the north line OF
SAID quarter north bBk deg east fifty eight (5s
poles to stone; thence south % deg east twenty
seven and eight-teuths 2T $40 poles to a stone;
thence parallel with the first line south sBL deg
west niteen poles to u stone in the Salem Road,
thence with said Salem Road to the place of be-
ginning, containing seven ~ acres. be the me
more OF less. being all the land owned bv suid
COnOyer in said quarter section
SAID real estate has a two story brick dwelling
house, and good frame shop, and good stable
ana other out buildings attached, and Is a desra-
BILE location for store.
said premises has been appraised at twenty two
hundred and fifty dollars so $50 and cannot sell
for less than swo thirds the appraised value
thereof.
TERMS OF sALE-CASH
o. G. H. DAVIDSON, Sheriff.
W. IL BELvILLE Atty. 2lWtt