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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
FROM LOUISVILLE.
Damage by the Flood "Details OF
the Disaster.

LOUISVILLE, March l3, p.m.-The
meagre advices received show the rail-
roads South to be in terrible condition.
But few lines have escaped disaster.
The only road from here by rail to
Memphis and New Orleans is via Nash
vile, Decatur and Corinth. Even this
route is not perfect Passengers are
transferred over the breaks on this line
Telegraph lines are down in many places.
We have only partial advices as to the ex-
tent of damage by the flood. The bridge
over Bacon creek, on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, which was carried
away by the freshet, will be repaired on
Thursday, and trains viii run regularly
to Nashville. The Memphis branch is
intact to GAINESVILLE. South of that point
il is covered with water, and to ten feet
deep in many places. The extent of
damage is not known. So tar as known
the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
has suffered most. Bridges, culverts
and embankments have been washed
away, and will require months to re-
pair. The Nashville and Decatur road
has been but slightly injured, and trains
are making connections tor Memphis
and New Orleans. A portion of the
track of the Lebanon branch of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, near
New Haven, was washed away this morn
ing, and the down train was forced to
return to this city.
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Mananlav,s Words.

In 1851 Lord Macaulay, whose fame as
an able essayist and philosophical his
torian is worldwide, wrote a letter to his
friend Mr. Randall, of New York, which
was read by many at the time with an
incredulous smile. He said
1t is quite plain that your Government
will never be able TO restrain a distressed
and disconnected majority. For with
YOU the majority is the Government, and
has the rich, who are always a minority,
absolutely at its mercy.
j seriously apprehend that you will, in
some such season as / have described,
do things which will prevent prosperity
from returning; that you will act like a
people who should in a year Of scarcity
devour an the seed corn, and thus make
the next year not OF scarcity, but OF
absolute famine. There will be, fear,
spoliation. The spoliation will increase
the distress. The distress viii produce
fresh spoliation. There is nothing to
stop you. Your Constitution is al sail
and no anchor As | said before,
when a society has entered on this
downward progress, either civilization or
liberty must perish. Either some Cesar
or Napoleon viii Seize the reins Of gov
eminent with a strong hand, or your re-
public will be as fearfully plundered ana
laid waste By barbariaus in the twentieth
century as The Roman Empire was in the
fifth, with this difference: that the Huns
and Yandals, who ravaged the Roman
Empire. came from without, and that
your Huns and VaDdais viii have been
engendered within your own country BY
your own Institutions
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
INDIAN WAR.

There may be no general Indian war
after all that has been said. A Washing
ton dispatch says: In response to the
resolution of the Senate, making inquiry
of the Secretary of War as to what mill
tary expeditions are in progress or in
contemplation to visit the Indian terri
tory, the Secretary transmitted com
munication from Gen Grant, inclosing
a correspondence with Lieut.. Gen. Sher-
man, commanding in the Indian Depart
ment, and stating that these dispatches
give information of all hostilities con
templated until the Indians by their own
acts make further operations necessary,
and that the present operations look
more to preventing further massacre than
to hostile action toward the Indians on
the plains. The dispatches detail the
proposed operations for the protection
and safety of emigrants, and ask for re-
Inducements and the power to issue ra-
tons to the peaceable Indians of hostile
tribes as a means of bringing the latter
to terms, which authority is given by
telegram from the War Department"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16

The pos,ical editor Of the New Or
leans Times SAYS We know 1t Is a
universally received trueism that sprihg
must be a charming season. We have
Gckle changes that reduce you in the
twinkliug Of an eye from the atmosphere
of the Spice Islands to the pitiless shores
of ice.bound Labrador. With hardly the
warning of cloud you are rained upor.
showed upon and yet expected to relr,ice
in the opening Of the vernal year. We
are taught to greet the March Of rough
winds, the March Of the bent brow"
with tie divine reverence that belongs to
'the powers that be, and with red noses
and blue lips to SILVER out our unfalter-
ing trust in the promise Of better days
We will be reconstructed, doubtless, I'M
der the genial influence of some future
May.day, but beneath the arrows and
buster of this surly month, it could only
be poet who could trace anything like
hope in the timid snow drop that hardly
peers above the damp mould before some
sleety blast lays it low.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
FOREIGN.

PARIS, March l5.-The Universal Elk.
position will be informally opened on
the LIST of April The inaugural ceremo-
MES will take place at later day.
DUBLIN, March l5.-This evening forty
prisoners were committed at Limerick
on the charge of high treason. A rising
on Sunday next is feared.
LIVERPOOL, March l5.-The American
Chamber of Commerce gave a grand
banquet tonight in honor of the heroes
of the Atlantic Gable, whereat four gold
medals we're presented to the following
gentlemen: Cyrus W. Field, Capt. An
derson, Mr. Canning and Mr. Willoughby
Smith The entertainment was a splen-
did affair. The American Minister and
all the leading Americas merchants Of
the city were present The usual toasts
were drank, including the health of the
President of the United States.
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MRS. soUTHWoRTH.

A Washington letter writer remarks
" There is an unusual number of visitors
about the capitol this morning, the
library having its full share of ladies,
walking about, sitting, reading, looking
at the pictures, and looking at each
other. By the farthest table, near the
new extension, sits dark, middle-aged,
sad, yet fine faced woman. She is Mrs.
E. D. E. N. Southwark. Ny impress
sion is that the woman is greater than
her books. Then in her personality
there is something fine and tender which
has never run out into ink, or been i'm =
prisoned in paper. She is to be honored
as one of the few women who has worked
her way through misfortune to fortune
by the work of her hand, and brain, and
heart She is one of the very few wo-
men who has been able to bring out OF
literature not only a remuneration but a
fortune. By the labor of her pen she
has educated her children, and secured
for herself and them the lovely home
which she now inhabits, on Georgetown
Nights. Here, surrounded by her fam
lily, by flowers, books, beauty and friends,
the imprisoned, sensitive and suffering
heart at last finds rest
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
NOUNS 49,

The New Orle1.ns Times says a more
fearful calaD .iy than another overflow
OF the bot1c m lands Of Louisiana, cannot
wen De rhagined. It would prove eli.
max TO the terrible burdens and trials
wnF n poor Louisiana has been called
~ .,on to endure during the past few
years, and complete the utter ruin Of
hundreds Of her best and most deserving
citizens And this dire catastrophe is
threatened. While no actual crevasse Of
serious consequences has yet occurred
there have been a number of land slides,
Of greater or less extent, and danger is
imminent at many other places.
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LIE down. MFNi

A Southern exchange says: This
caution so often and wisely given by dis
Greet and humane commanders during
the late war, is now repeated by that
brave and noble soldier-Gen. d. II.
Hill-as the surest safeguard from the
destructive and wicked measures Of the
Jacobins in Congress He mentions the
fact, that repeated discharges from a
battery causes the guns to become so
heated that the gunners must Of necessity
cease firing. Il is then an easy matter
to charge and take the battery. Let the
Radicals continue 10 hurl their fulmina-
tons the policy Of the South, as advised
By Gen. Hin, is embraced in that simple
but prudent order-"he down, men
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
FROM NEW YORK.

New YORK, March ia Georgia cor.
respondent says the efforts at reorganiza-
ton under Sherman's bill have met but
little response. Professional agitators
are doing everything to arouse the pref.
udices of race and color, and to array
blacks against whites
An Ogdensburg special says the Fe-
MAN excitement is reviving in that diree-
ton, Fort Wellington, at Prescott, G.
W., has been put in a state of defense
and garrisoned with troops. The ferry
boats have been ordered to discontinue
making night trips. The river is frozen
from shore to shore affordng a good
crossing for an army.
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TREMENDOUS.

The ST. Louis Republican of the l4th
publishes the reports of the Legislative
Committees on the sale Of the Iron
Mountain railroad, with this caption :
Terrible record Of frauds Criminal
conduct of several parties. The State
swindled out of million dollars How
to buy railroads What is slush fund ?
Influences on the Governor. Collision
between Commissioners aud bidders. A
nest, Of foul corruption. Shameful and
scandalous transactions. Is Fletcher a
fool or knave2 Astounding develop.
ments. Missouri disgraced and dis
honored. Case deferred for legal pro.
ceedings. Startling insight into roguery.
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A PARTY FoRMING.

There is unquestionable evidence Of
the fact that a party is forming in the
South favorable to the acceptance Of
the terms of the military bill. 1t is small
at present, but will grow rapidly. We
cannot understand what this party pro
poses to accomplish The ten States of
the South have no power to accept or
reject that bill 1t is the terms which
the conqueror imposes on the conquered
without asking any question or granting
any discretion. 1t will gain nothing to
say to Congress, "We accept your meas
ure." Congress would laugh, aud reply,
Mr.. Rebel, that will do to talk, but it
does not amount to anything. That bill
is your master, aud it is all the same
whether you accept or rejeetit You can
20, Sir" In confederation of what we
have written in respect to the formation
Of an acceptance party, we refer to
Washington dispatch, sent specially to
a Southern paper 1t appears, II says,
10 be now conceded that the entire South
will be speedily organized under the Re
construction act Such ia the opinion Of
all here in official and other prominent
positions Senator johnson, Of Mary
land, is in daily receipt of numerous let
tiers from al regions Of the South, thank
ing him for the course be has taken re-
Gently on the reconstruction question.
A paragraph from one Of the letters re-
ceired will indicate the tone Of sentiment
among the conservative men Of the South,
A prominent citizen OF Beaufort, N. C.,
says. ave see that you voted for Sher-
mans bill under conviction that the
South could not do better. ] fear il We
seriously oppose it harsher measures
viii be inflicted that greatest Of calami-
ties, confscaiion, may be the next bitter
cup. lam disfranchised By hat bill in
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STOCK IN TRADE.

The National Inteliigencer thinks that
craftsmanship in politics is nowadays re-
dueed to system, by which, as in any
other form of traffic, leading dealers seek
to have heavy stocks in hand, and broad
regions for a market These gloat over
the illimitable prospect Of trade in poll
tics if the South be kept out of the Union
and what relates to it be entirely con-
trolled by politicians. To make good
thing" Of the situation, it is their inter
est to foster the Wholesale falsehoods as
TO the absence of law and order there
Upon this protext, the South being, as is
assumed, out of the Union, provisional
governments must be established in the
place of the present State organizations.
Through provisional governor, whose
appointment shall be made expressly for
the Southern market, the patronage Of
the State may be monopolized by trading
politicians, and through such appoint
ments, remuneTative speculatlons in
property can generally be carried on.
To particularize: Advantage may be
taken of circumstances to purchase for
a triAing sum, plantations, mines, mill
seats, lumber regions, fishing landings,
oyster banks, and city lots at CONNER
cial points. Grants will be obtained for
monopolies generally. The temporary
control of the cotton, tobacco, rice, and
sugar trade will enure to the advantage
of the shoal of political adventures, who
could never make any Roadway in bust
ness AT home.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
PUBLIC LEDGER.
HOW STANDS THE QUESTION:

There is one proposition which no
Southern man OF intelligence will at
tempt to controvert 1t may be thus
stated: The conqueror has the right to
impose conditions on the conquered.
II is the rule Of war, and is laid down IN
allth works on international law. Con-
gress claims Though in the face of its
antecedents) that ten States of the South
are not States in the Union, but territory
conquered by the arms of the United
States. The boundaries of this territory
are accurately defined in the bill pro-
yiding for its government. The States
composing it formed government, were
at war with the United States for four
wears, were recognized as belligerents
at home and abroad, and were treated
with as such. At the termination OF hos
tilities, they remained under military
law. and subject in all things to its au-
thority In accordance with the advice
of the President, they formed State Gov
ernments, and, though under military
domination, proceeded to perform the
functions of States These governments
have been declared by solemn act OF
Congress to be illegal. Disregarding
them, and their pretended authority as
States, provision has been made for their
government by the military. Here we
have the highest solution of dispu-
tied point: Secession was not only
possible, but became an accomplish
ed fact. Ten States did 60 out
of the Union, did form government,
were recognized, warred upon, conquered
as such, and remain out The authority
that declares them no longer States, is
one from which there is an appeal, it is
true, but the Supreme Court, in determin-
ing the question, could not enforce
contrary doctrine, if it should entertain
it. Congress will not submit to have its
policy thwarted by that or any other
Tribunal. The time has passed for that
We are in state of revolution, the re-
suit of which will be the overthrow OF the
old principles of the Government The
main point deduced from the complica-
ton is, that the South did actually secede
from the Union, and that any other
State may do so by declaring war against
the United States. When conquered, it
will find itself in the condition of the
ten States ofthe South. Assuming then,
what is historically true, that these States
are not now and have not been for six
years members of the Union, the Mill
tary bill is in accordance with the prin-
ciples of International law, which pro-
vides for the government of conquered
people and territory. No allegiance is
due from the ten States of the South to
the Federal Government, that is not due
from the conquered to the conqueror.
Of course on the assumption that the
South did not go out of the Union at all,
the conclusion will be different The
Military bill would be unconstitutional
and operate as dissolution of the Union
by Congress And thus stands the
question.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
GENERAL PRICE.

The St. Louis Republican of the 18th
says of old Pap" We are requested to
call attention to the card of Sterling
Price 4 Co. The head of the firm is as
well known to our people as any one in
the State. We are informed that in early
life he had considerable experience as a
merchant, and later, in the cultivation
and preparation of tobacco and hemp.
We are assured they have secured the
services Of gentlemen Of the FIRST capacity
and experience. We wish them success
in their business
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
WASHINGTON.

A lady correspondent of the Tribune
gives the best description of our national
capital yet. She says: Washington is
a concrete of seediness 1t is poor re-
lation of prosperous cities. 1t is out at
elbows, shabby at toes, generally dingy
and neglected, while the snowy public
buildings shine upon its poverty like
pinchback jewelry. Founded as a land
speculation, it bears its hateful birth
mark still. Nothing here looks thrifty.
Smart and forced gentility nudges dirty
and detected poverty. Occasionally a
sturdy three-story brick house pushes it
self up in rash moment, butt soon has
forlorn and depreciating air, as if ask
ing pardon of the surrounding wrecks
for having disturbed their doleful har :
mony. The plan of the city will remain
a mystery to the end of time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
REBELLION SUGGESTED.

The leading article in the New York
World, of Tuesday, opens with the fol-
lowing paragraph; 1.-THE Southern peo-
pie should resist the execution of martial
law by force, they would be fighting in
as righteous a cause as any in which a
patriot ever drew his sword. Armed re-
sistance is the natural and appropriate
mode Of redress for such fragrant in
justice as is now meditated against the
South. Resistance to tyrants is obedi.
ence to end" The only good reason for
not appealing to arms in this copjunct
ure is the hopelesness Of success.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
WATER IN ARKANSAS.

The Searcy Record states that a young
man named Hobson was drowned near
that place while attempting to rescue his
sister, who had taken refuge on top of
her house from the rising waters. He
swan in on horseback, but failed to
reach the house, and turned back, but
recalled by her cries, he renewed the at.
tempt, and, when near the house, his
horse sank, and both persisted in her
sight. She remained on the house nearly
three days before she was rescued.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
SHUT up. sHoppY.

At fashionable evening party at
Gotham, lady from the West Indies
wore one of those beautiful shell head
dresses, which are made in Nassau. A
gentleman, CD who deserves to be called
Mr.. Shoddy, after openly expressing his
admiration for that ornament, was i'll.
hammered enough to ask what it cost
The lady answered that, being happily
ignorant Of the relative value Of green
backs, she could not give an idea. What
is the currency Of -Y inquired Mr..
Shoddy. wit and politeness, sir, re
Piled the lady, (which should be current
everywhere"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
DENVER CITY.

In bar.room in Denver, the following
rules are conspicuously posted No
one is allowed to remain in the hall or
passage way longer than FIVE minutes
without taking drink, or in the sitting
room ten minutes without doing likewise
Any one refusing to drink when asked
will be ANONYMOUSLY kicked out No
gentlemen are expected to eat the lemon
peel in their cocktails, and those who do
so will not be supplied with any more,
and will not be considered gentlemen in
future.
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EMIGRATION.

According to report of the Ger
man Emigrant Society, two thousand
seven hundred and twenty-eight of the
FIVE thousand six hundred and ninety
FIVE emigrants who landed in New York
in February were Germans. Last year
the number of Germans arriving during
the same period was two thousand eight
hundred and twenty-nine; while in the
corresponding period of the year previ.
GUS it was only five hundred and forty
seven
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fact, il takes all political power out Of
The hands of the most intelligent class
Of Southern people, yet in the event OF
he rejection It is to be followed by more
stringent enaetments We had better
submit. In your intercourse with South
ern gentlemen indicate what you believe
should be our true course, and my wore
for il your advice will be potential Tor
good I regret to know we are deemed
so unworthy of public confidence Yet
matters have gone SO far that the great
body Of our people desire to see it ended
This, we think, is conclusive.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16
EXTRAORDINARY ORDER.

. The Military bill declares the govern
ment of ten States of the South illegal,
and yet Gen. Seho6eld, assigned to the
command of Virginia, in an order, re-
cognizes them. A Richmond dispatch
of the 18th says: General SehOfeld to-
day issued an order assuming command
of Virginia. He says that all officers
under the existing provisional govern
ment will continue to perform the duties
of their respective Offices according to
law, unless otherwise directed, in indi-
vidual eases uutil their successors shall
be elected under act Of Congress he
says it is desirable that the military
power shall be exercised only so far as it
is necessary to accomplish the objects
for which il was conferred, and appeals
to the people, especially the civil officers,
to render necessity for its exercise as
light as possible, by strict obedience to
the laws, and an impartial administration
of Justice to all classes
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FROM CANADA.

OTTAWA, March l6.-There are rumors
of Fenian movement near St. Albans
1t is stated that the authorities have i'm.
portant information on the subject.
MONTREAL, March l6.-One hundred
and twenty-five regulars left for Champ
lain this morning, and strong force of
the royal artillery will go to the frontier
to-day.
TORONTO, March l6.-There will be a
movement of the forces to-day. Partic-
ulars are withheld for the present.
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GEORGIA,

Governor jenkins telegraphs that the
destitute in Georgia number 10000, Of
which 10000 are blacks, which is largely
in excess of Towards former estimate,
and is believed real The destitution in
South Carolina is even larger than in
Georgia The Government has given the
Relief Committee the free use of the
bark Purveyor, and she will be loaded
this week with full cargo of corn. Her
capacity is about 10000 bushels.
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A Washington correspondent, in
abiding to Mr.. Bingham, of Ohio, goes
off after this fashion: What a picture
he makes while dealing in invective !
The pale, intellectual, yet brilliant face
of the ordinary man passes into some
thing more than human. The cleaning
eyes, the hooked nose, the sardonic
smile, embody an expression purely
satanic. Mephistophiles, in his happiest
moments, could not surpass him."
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FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, March l6.-A special
says that Southern delegations are arriv-
ing daily to obtain the Presidents views
on reconstruction. Gov. jenkins will
soon be here from Georgia, and will call
the attention Of the Administration to
the reputation of the State debt since
the close of the war.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-03-16

BG- The Austin Intelligeneer says
that no great time will elapse before the
Barnet iron works will be in full blast,
and we doubt not that ere many years
are gone, Texas, as rich as she is in her
agricultural resources, viii point to her
inexhaustible deposits Of iron, lead, sill
yer and gold, and to her marble quar-
ries and petroleum springs, as the prin'
cipal sources of her wealth and pros
perity.