Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-13
Arrival and Departure Of Trains.

MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD.
New Orleans express, daily. s:45 AN. 500 pm.
Freight daily. save Sunday. 3;I5 Pm. 4:40 AN.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD.
Through express. daily.".l0:55 pm. 6:lO AN.
Through mail, daily.""...... lao PM. 6:l0 pm.
bomerville &C. save Sunday $40 A.M.' $40 PM.
MEMPHIS AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Mail Express.....-.~.... 500 pm. ll:00 Pm.
Express"......................l045 AN. 400 Pm.
The MUNICIPAL ELECTION AND Re-
GIsTRATIoY.- In his message to the
Board of Aldermen published else
where) the Mayor expresses some sur
prise at the appearance of bill in the
Legislature to repeal the law requiring
the voters of each ward in the city to be
registered thirty days prior to any mu-
nicipal election. He adds that this law
has always been regarded as a great
protection to the purity of the ballot box.
1t deprives no citizen Of his
vote; and he "cannot conceive why
any man who regards the welfare of
this city can advocate its repeal" If
the Mayor is really astonished at the
proposed action he is more simple
minded than we take him to be. 1t is
because the law is "great protection to
the purity of the ballot box that its re-
peal is sought. The preservation of the
purity of the ballot box" will be the
death.knell of Radical aspirations. Unless
the Radical hucksters and tricksters
import hordes of negroes, as they did
in August, their chances are very slim.
Corruption, wholesale perjury and
Radicalism walk hand in hand They
form a sisterly trio, whose natural enemy
is Decency. In the first place, the cor
poration limits of Memphis are to be
enlarged to give votes to all the blacks
budding in miserable cabins outside the
present boundaries. Then the registra-
ton law, designed to prevent fraud, is to
be repealed, that hundreds of others,
supplied through the Loyal Leagues
with bogus certificates, can besiege the
polls, and vote if necessary. AS in Au-
gust, the Registration Commissioner will
appoint election officers, and doubtless
be candidate himself All the negro
votes, whether fraudulent or otherwise,
will be showed into the ballotbox some
where. Like the Mayor, we cannot
conceive why any man who regards the
welfare of this city can desire the re-
peal of so proper an enactment But
the men who now control affairs in Mem
phis and elsewhere throughout the State,
have only their own personal well
fare at heart. They came here to
speculate upon the miseries of the
people-play the grab game, fill
their pockets with illegtimate plumber,
and leave for more congenial climes
when fat pickings no longer offer. They
are the human carrion crows who fol-
lowed the army during the war, leaving
plundered towns and farm. houses in
their wake, and spreading desolation
broadcast, The legislation Of the State
is in their hands, and their power is
being unscrupulously used to the enrich
ment of one class at the expense of
another. If necessary to repeal all the
laws ever passed for Memphis, to insure
Radical triumph in January, they will
not hesitate at the infamy. This is why
little Smith, who wants to be Mayor, and
fears present laws may render success
uncertain, desires the registration act
repealed. A clear field for wholesale
perjury is necessary, and will be found.
Does the Mayor see the point
New MEMPHIS THEATER.-Lotta was
sunbeamy as usual last night, throwing
another large audience into ecstasies.
The bill was repetition of the previous
evenings entertainment, which we no.
ticed at some length in yesterday issue.
If there was any difference between the
two evenings it was slight improvement
in the company, who seemed to play with
increa sed spirit There was no improve.
ment in little Puss herself, who, in
whatever she appears, is simply inimita-
BILE. She is the most refreshiHgly orig
inal little Body we ever saw or anticipate
seeing. In nothing does she initiate any
one to the slightest degree. Her
conceptions of characters are entirely her
own, and their rendition purely Lottaish.
That is the only definition we can give
them. Good humor, sprightliness and
mischief literally exude from her face.
If she is ever quiet a moment, it must
be when asleep. On the stage she is the
embodiment Of activity, being here,
there and everywhere in a moment Of
time, speaking, dancing and banjo play
ing, but finding abundant opportunity
to prompt and give the cues to others.
This evening Miss Lotia will appear in
three pieces-tbe Kiss in the Dark,
Captain Charlotte and Family Jars.
This is a splendid bill, in which she
fsvors the audience with songs, dances
and banjo solos Those who desire an
evening Of enjoyment.should attend.
10. Locke, p Jefferson street, has
received the Illustrated London News,
Army and Navy Journal, Frank Leslie's
Tu,..-.tod vsitunr New York Saturday /