Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-25

Mr.. Davis trial in Richmona was 10 nave
commenced this forenoon. Among the wit
nesses sum oned for the Government are Gen.
J.E. Johnston and j. A. Seldom.
The House judiciary Committee had Iona
session relative to impeachment Saturday, bu'
nothing was made public. A rumor says the
Committee will favor impeachment
Thsd. Stevens bill for the division of taxes
has not yet been prepared. but he proposes to
take hold Of it as soon as the impeachment
pressure has somewhat abated.
The Union Pacific railroad is now finished
Eve hundred and twenty-five miles west from
Omaha to the eastern base of the Rocky moun-
tair =. and il is expected the track will be laid
10 Evans Point, thirty miles farther, and the
hiehest point between the Atlantic and Pa
oifc ocean. in January.
A London dispatch Of the 9th says: The
expected demonstration Of sympathy for the
fate Of Allen, Gould and Larkin took place to-
day at noon. A funeral procession, consisting
of about two thousand persons, was formed and
slowly marched to Hyde Park. One OF the
most conspicuous objects in the procession was
a large black banner, upon which wasinscr bed
the motto Mans inhumanity TO man makes
countless Thousands mourn On the arrival Of
the mourners at Hyde Park, solemn meeting
was "a lied, according to a programme
previou,ly announced. Three stands had
been erected on The grounds. from which,
during the afternoon, the people were
addressed by various speakers. Strong appeals
were made to the sympathies of the audience
and the hurr ed executions at Manchester
were condemned in bitter terms. Notwith-
standing the PECULIAR occasion, and tho char
acter Of the assemblage, good order prevailed
throughout the proceedings. and the police,
who were prepared for any emergency, were
not once called rn to interfere. This evening
similar meeting was held at the Public Ha'l,
in this city, which was largely attended by
Irishm.n. No disturbance whatever occurred,
and the city is perfectly quiet"
Rome di patches say that the Pope has or
dered the release OF all GaribaIdian prisoners.
Garibaldi is very i'll in prison.
The New Orleans Republican (RadicaD Of
Saturday morning. in an editorial healed
"Who is Responsible" abiding to the sus-
pension of Mowers removals by orders from
Washington, uses the following language:
1.-THE day will come, and perhaps it may be a
bloody one, when T. e loyal people of louisiana
will held the authors Of this interference in the
progress OF reconstruction to strict account.
The war of the rebellion is not yet over.
The States Of the South are not re-
constructed. The Grand Army Of the Re-
public' doubles in numbers the old grand
army of the Potomac and tried soldiers, with
dusky faces, still love their old profe sion, and
cherish the old muskets they carried so bravely
on many well fought field. The lowly and
humble have learned their rights, and know
how to fight, and IL need be. to die for them.
No power save that of the Almighty God, can
keep the loyal people, in the end. from achiev-
ing their own liberty, and trampling to the
dust the minions Of the old and still dominant
slave power" The same article calls Andrew
johnson that " arch-traitor AID assassin"
In the Presbyterian General Assembly.
Saturdar, the committee on the part Of the
Cumberland Church consented TO surrender
their name, standards on the subject of minis
terial education, adopting those Of the Presby-
terrain Church. As condition they ask that
the Confession of Faith and Catechism Of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church shall be
adopted instead of the Confession of Faith
and Catechism of the Presbyterian Church (;
or, that Confession of Faith and Catechism
presented with the report be adopted; or, if
more satisfactory. they will consent to new
compilation on the basis Of the Westminster
standard. DR.. Lyon vigorously protested
against the coalition, arguing that the Cumber-
land Presbyterians, being numorically stronger,
would absorb the other body without making
any concession, except perhaps TO dispense
with the werd Cumberland. The report was
properly referred.