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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-23
RICHMOND.
The Reconstruction Election In
Virginia-Partial Returns-The
Result Unoertain-D Disturbance
at Eynohburg. .Q ane

RIoHMoSD, October 23.-Lynchburg-
whites, 673; blacks, 76l; being 372 less
than the number registered.
Terry's precinct-For the Convention
1886, against it 2O5 for the Conservative
ticket BOG, Radical ticket 1892.
Amherst-Whites, 80; blacks, 3l3.
Norfolk-Whites, 1884; blacks, 1892 /;
being GA less than the number regis.
tered.
Petersburg = For Convention, I'll
against l9l.
At Lynchburg the lives of negroes
who voted the Conservative ticket were
threatened by Radicals, and in a dis
turbance caused by them three negroes
were wounded. Order was restored by
the military and civil authorities.
Ponlett's precnct-For Convention,
453 against 2S5. eee
Stanton voted 439 for Convention
and Az against
The Conservative ticket in Augusta
county is elected by 500 majority. There
was small white and full negro vote in
the ballot, the Convention being voted
down; and the Conservative men being
elected.
News from Rockbridge county insures
o Conservative triumph. n
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NARRIED.

MYERS-JONES.- On Tuesday. October p,
1867, In the First Baptist Church, by Rev. X.
b. Miller, Mr.. Charles L. Myers and Miss
Priscilla G. J ones, of this city.
Brother Miller seems to possess the gift Of
" match making" ss the younger members Of
his congregation are fast coupling. We
cannot refrain expressing our qualification at
the good fortune Of our friend Charlie in select
ing one Of the fairest and purest Of the Parson's
fock to be his guardian angel" She is a
sweet Christian lady, whose warm heart and
amiabls manner will ever make her house
hold treasure. The happy couple left last eve
ming on a bridal tour. We wish them a safe
return, and the utmost happiness in their voy-
age through life.
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WASHINGTON.
The Bradley Fisher Affair Again
Prominent Georgians and the
Forthcoming Eleotion--An APP
zeal to the President and Con.
Grant. E s


WASHINGTON, October 23.-Chief Jus
tice Carter, of the District Supreme
Court, announced to-day that the cases
in which lawyer Bradley, who was de-
barred by Judge Fisher, is engaged as
counsel, would not be taken up till his
status was determined by the full bench.
Prominent Georgians represent to the
President and General Grant that Cen
eral Pope has so arranged matters in
that State as to give the coming election
to the negroes and Radicals, and asks
them to interfere. Both the President
and General Grant replied that they had
no power to interfere.
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Tho charge Against tho PRECEDENT.

~
II will be recollecied that Mr.. Boutwell,
repeatedly, in his place in Congress,
charged that President johnson was
implicated in the assassination con-
spiracy, and on several occasions aver :
red that the records Of the War Depart
ment would prove his guilt. Recently,
in speech at Boston, be condescended
TO be more specific, and pointed to the
dismissal Of the Chief Of the Confederate
Record Office (Leiber) for the purpose,
as he (Boutwel) alleged, Of destroying
the evidence he referred TO, as proof
itself of the truth Of his charge. We
have, fortunately, indisputable evidence
Of the malignancy and utter groundless:
ness Of this charge. The President had
nothing whatever TO do with the removal
of Leiber, and never has had any con-
troll directly or indirectly, over the
records in question. The following
official order is n pointed refutation OF
the whole Islander, the date Of which not
being its least significant feature;
WAR DEP's, ADJurAST GENERALS 0fFLcR,
WASHINGTON, August IL, 1901.
Francis Lelber. LID, New York City;
SIR: The object for which the archive
office was established having been in the
main accomplished, and the records
thereof carefully arranged under your
supervision, the Secretary Of War directs
me to say that after the end of the pre-
sent month your services as Chief OF the
Office will not be required, and to
request you to turn over the office aud
Al
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guished father Of Virainia politics. Thomas
Richie, and was afterwards for some years
connected with the Richmond Whig. then
under tho editorial management Of the late
brilliant John Hamden Pleasantp. He came
to Memphis In 1867. and became year or
two afterwsrds one Of the publishers Of the
Memphis Enquirer. He has resided here
thirty years, filling prominent place. during a
great part Of that time in the Press Of Mem
phis. lie was for number Of years Sheriff OF
Shelby county. and has filed various positions
oftrust and responsibility in this community.
He was ono OF the active founders of the
organization known rs the "Old Folks at
Home" serving II with efficient zeal, as It's
Secretary, from It's institution up to the time Of
his death.
Ilisremains will DO inferred this afternoon IN
Elmwood Cemetery, at four o'clock. ~ Il
And so will pass away from earth ono of the
true and tried men whose name Is 4" familiar as
household words, in all the circles Of society
that make up the old population Of Memphis.
In every rank and station in life composing
that population the announcement made in the
foregoing will I'll all hearts with tears. Iii
most sorfowful to see the thinned ranks of old
association growing thinner almost day by day;
and when the gap made is the taking away Of
so much excellence, the sadness Of the bereave-
ment extends to those who had only just
learned to know aud value the qualities that
made the departed one so dear to those who
had known his virtues through long years Of
proof. Major Moseley possessed the excellent
qualities and virtues of the good citizen, tho
true friend. the devoted husband and father,
in an eminent degree. He was patriotic and
honest, genial and generous. pure in his morals.
stainless and innexible in the PRINCIPLES which
governed his conduct, public and private
He died poor but in the character he main.
tanned through life he has left a solid inheri-
lance Of goodness to his family. which wealth
alone could not do. His memory win be green
for aye in the hearts Of those who knew him
we'll: M. !.
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H@ Reference to the Internal ReUenue
Record shows that the period is passing
rapidly away within which insolvent
debtors Of past years may avail them
selves Of the national bankrupt law, with
such advantages as they now possess.
After the I'd of March, 1868, no debtor
will be able to obtain a discharge in
bankruptcy unless his assets shall pay
ffy per cent of his indebtedness, or by
assent in writing of a majority in num-
Der and value Of bis creditors. This fact
is not generally known, and any one
desiring to obtain the benefit Of the act
has no time to lose. Only four months
remain, and discharge cannot in any
case be obtained in less than three
months, and where there is opposition
more time is required.
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B4- A letter from Florence says that
some official reports have been received
there respecting the horrors committed
in Calabria under fear Of the cholera.
1t is impossible to imagine anything
more frightful. Whole families have
been murdered, cut in pieces, even, it is
said, thrown to the swine. More than
eighty persons have thus persisted on the
suspicion Of scattering poison, to which
the wretched ignorance Of the lower or
ders in Southern Italy persist in attribu-
ting the cholera.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-23

paS- In London they have a man who
gives exhibitions in huge tank having
glass sides and filled with water. He
sits on the bottom cross-legged and grins
at spectators; opens his mouth quite
wide, eats, drinks bottle of milk laughs
audibly, smokes a pipe without extin-
gushing it, all under water. His feats
occupy about half a minute, but he is
able to remain more than a minute
beneath the surface.
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REID.-At 5 o'clock this WEDNESDAY, morn
ing, Matilda Reid. wife Of John Reid, and
daughter Of George Montgomery.
Friends and acquaintanoes are respectfully
invited 10 attend her funeral to morrow morn
ing. at 10 O'Clock, from the residence, No. q
Exchange street extended. SirTioos BY Rev.
Mr.. Simpson.
MOSELEl. AT his residence, on Bxchange
street, on Tuesday q tern00n, al ffionn MINUTES
after seven o'clock. Mai. John Barley Mozcley,
IN the ffty-ffth year Of bis age.
Major Moseley vas a native Of Nirrinia, and
learned the printine business in the oace Of
the Richmond Eaquirer. under the distin-
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Attachment Suit.

J.B. Hill VS.. ]. S. RICHMOND, Case No. 1868.
Same VS.. same, case No. 1884, Same VS.. same.
case No. 1896. Same vs.. same, No. 1866. Be-
fore S. A. Moore. J. P.
TVHE PLAINTIFF, j. B. HILL, HAVING
i sued out Judicial Attachment in each OF
the foregoing cases, now pending before me,
against the property and estate Of the defend
ant, }. S. Richmond, ana the faid Attachment
having been levied on property and estate OF
the said defendant. it is therefore ordered that
the said J. S. Richmond do enter his appear
ance at the said Court on or before the 3Oth day
of November, 1867, 20 plead, answer or demur
to the said plain tif's action, or the same will
he taken for confessed, and the cases set for
hearing ex parte, ADD that copy of this order
be published once week for four consecutive
wee ks in the PUBLIC LEDGER.
oaw.70 s. A. MOORE, J. p.
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pGa. In the House, Mr., Prosssr, rep
reseniative from this county, offered the
following preamble and resolution:
WHEREAS, The debt of Tennessee has
grown to large proportions, and, in the
depressed financial condition of the
country, the payment of the necessary
taxes is sensibly felt by all classes Of
citizens; therefore, be it
Resolred, That in the judgment Of
this General Assembly, it is neither
prudent nor expedient to make any ad'
diion to our present Indebtedness, but
retrenchment and economy in expendi-
ture and strict accountability on the
part of the officers of the State are justly
expected and required by the people.
The proposition was laid on the table
AN indication that the House is even
more strongly in favor of loyal indem.
nifty" than was generally supposed. And
this in the face of the fact that our bonds
are as low as they were quoted at the
close of the war Why, gentlemen of
the House, Because, as the New York
Times (Radical) Of the 18th instant says
of the "use made of the recommends
ton of Gov. Brownlow for paying the
claims of loyal Tennesseeans for certain
losses during the rebellion. Nashuille
Banner, 22d,.
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CHARLESTON.
The Congregational Railroad Com
mittee-Munioipal Election Pre-
vented by Candy.

CHARLESTON, October % = Several
members of the Congressional Railroad
Committee addressed meeting of citi-
zens at Hibernia Hall last night.
General Candy orders the election Of
municipal officers not to be held, and the
notice prescribed by the city ordinance
not to bepublished.
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~ Il is thought that a sufficiently
large number Of negro votes we're polled
in the late election in Ohio TO destroy
the small radical majority claimed there.
The presiding officer Of the State Senate,
who passes on the returns, being radi-
cal, these votes will likely be counted.
But it is proposed to test the election
before the Legislature which is demo-
cratic and which il is competent to do,
The expression Of intention to do 50
being Sled between the sixth and tenth
day sfer the meeting
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BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW YORK.
sold ana COTTON Reporta.
I4atest 70 Noon To-day.

Special To the PUBLIC LRDGRR.l
New YORK, October 23-l2 m.-Gold
opened at Sl43s at liam. declined to
$l43a, and is now $l43s.
Cotton dull and prices unchanged /;
good ordinary, l6@l6lc, Mobile, l91c.
Exchange, sa@9l. Nv d
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E@- Professor LOOMS, in opening a
course of medical lectures in New York,
said that the improvements in medicine
have increased longevity seventy one
per cent. in Paris in sixty years, that
one hundred years ago the death rate
was one in twenty and is now one in
forty, and that there is q greater differ
ence in the average longevity between
the eighteenth and nineteenth century in
London than there was between a year
of general health in that city and year
of cholera.
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B@. Alvin Lloyd suddenly left St.
Louis Saturday, after receiving several
thousand dollars in sums from 500 to
$3.50 from merchants for advertisements,
which we're to be inserted in a new rail-
road guide he protested to be about to
publish. de has been operating there
about six weeks.
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seS~ A baggage man on the Pittsburgs
Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, known
throughout The region as "Jim," &C.
casionally INDUCES in remarks of jocu-
lar sort During the rebellion when
Western pulpits were generally made po-
litical rostrums, Jim met some old
friends travelling on the cars. After in
curing about old acquaintance and
talking over old times, one of the party
asked BY the way, how is politics
about here2 Well" replied Jim,
I'm be darned if know, for / haven't
been to church in more a month.
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PHILADELPHIA.
Effort to Secure Prize Money.

PHILADELPHIA, October 23-Repre-
sentatives from all vessels of Farragut s
feet, which captured New Orleans, or
ganized an association last night for the
purpose of united action toward obtain
ing prize money.
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B9~ Mr.. Fawcett regrets that he sold
Dexter. He says, in letter to Robert
Bonner: |" hope you are well pleased
with your horse Dexter, and that he is
all l represented to you. have heard
that you can drive him on the road l
think he is the greatest prize that man
can own. | would not have sold him if
l had been able to keep so much money
in one horse; but if you don't like Dex.
ter, l will give you your money back, as
/ feel lost without him." 1t is said that
Bonner would not sell Dexter for 800, :
600. Dexter, in spite of many predic-
tons, is making good road horse. Mr.
Bonner has driven him frequently, with
out developing any vicious traits, such
as he was said to possess to dangerous
degree.
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BLUFF CITY
CASH DISTRIBUTION A SUCCESS

TTNHE REGULAR WEEKLY DISTRIBU-
i ton occurred this wednesday, morning,
at 10 o'clock, with the following result.
PRIZE TICKETS (UNITUE):
50,f05 52,Si7 81, 766 74,48T 54,2l4 32,125 1901
23,24h 6S.T83 5000 53,34l 44,607 27,196 42,494
$500 5i,222 GOALS 1888 $3.50
Prizes and premiums cashed ut the office, No.
q Jackson Block, previous to 3 O'Clock Thurs
day, 9th inst.
Another Distribution will occur on WE'D
NESDAY, 3lsT INST.
Sale of Checks for next Drawing limited to
10000. RUSSELL Il CO.,
u Tacksou plocly
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Hn. Hon. Montgomery Blair, in re-
cent speech, suggests the inquiry as to
how soon the country is to be bankrupted,
with Chase to make the money and q
Stanton or his instruments to spend it.
he quotes Gen. Butler, who certainly
should be good Radical authority, as
follows:
Under the Chase banking system, with
100000 in greenbacks you can get
United States bonds for that amount.
These bonds are deposited in the treas
ury, and they not only pay six per cent.
a year in gold on them, but they will re-
turn you $1,000 in greenbacks-all but
$4,000 of your money-to carry on a
bank with But the operation does
not stop here. Butler says those who
are in favor can get the public deposits
put in their bank also; and he
knows a bank in Boston where some
parties with bank Of 100000 CAPT
talal, for which, by the process
above described, the government gets
only the use of $4,000, have a million
Of dollars on deposit constantly, and they
actually invest these deposits in govern
ment bonds, and get elk per cent. year
on them from the government So that
by the use of $4,000 these men make,
first, six per cent on $500 000-$l8, 900
in gold, worth about $4,000 in green
backs-then 100000 in gold for interest
on the public deposits, equal to 100000
in greenbacks Thus, without counting
any profits on the loans of the $270,000
in greenbacks issued to them on deposit
ing their bonds, they make $4,000
year, without a risk or trouble, for the
use by the government of $4,000 Was
ever a government heeced in such a
popnar hafore
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t9- a scaffold on the new colored
orphan asylum, corner of One Hundred
and-forty.third street and Tenth avenue,
New York, broke down Saturday morn
ing. Three workmen we're thrown into
a cellar, but fortunately there was five
feet Of water in it, which prevented seri-
ous iniurv
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| then; 80 il was we'll that | died where
did and az | did. And all the vague
stories that have been borne to her earl
with regard to the inhuman treatment o
The Yankees TO me and others are al
false-every one Of them.
| / should like that Mr.. Tyler, OF Ten
nessee, il he is on the earth, and l pre-
sumo he isl have heard that he is IN
terested in these things-and, as NJ
| knows NV mother well, | ask that he dG
what he can toward bearing my message
TO her and enlightening her upon these
things. am very thankful to you, sir
for all you may do for me, and hope u
repay you, sometime. Sept 10
The foregoing is from the banner O
LioM a paper devoted to spiritualism,
! and will interest those who are addicted
TO the marvellous We do not know 70
whom of the many Tylers allusion y
made, and commend II 10 our friend OF
the LEDGER, ns being more intimately
acquainted with the several branches
than ourselves, 10 transmit the desired
intelligence. -Avalanche.
Our friend Cluskey "of Tennessee "
was lately reported running after Bronze
John or John after him; but we are glad
to learn, that after being caught, he has
finally escaped from confinement and
begins to look natural again. 1t seems
he concluded not to travel far in the
spirit land" although from the fact
that he carried Banner Of Light IN
his hand, it would seem he may
have at one time been thinking OF
the desperate venture He however
had peep inside, either of the infer
nal or some other dark region, and
had a conversation with some of the
inmates, we suppose-though he does
not profess to be " intimately acquainted
with the several branches, and refers to
our senior as likely to be more an adept
in this respect than himself Now, In
his behalf, and in behalf of the whole Ty.
Ter family, we utterly deny, repudiate and
demonstrate against all knowledge Of any
Sue0 SOFt Oh IOlhb do nc nus OOOn ~
+" communication with, of all ghosts,
witches and COLLINS. We never even
saw white sheet in graveyard, or be-
came interested in these things" We
don't know Mr.. Ghost Warrington's
mother dead or alive in Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Tennessee, or anywhere else,
nor anybody else, nor anything else
and we don't want to. Your banner of
light is nothing but dark lantern,
and can't tell anybody whether anybody |
Else is dead or alive, gone to the devil
Or staid at home If that's all you know
about it, you might as well swap brains
With W. j. smith. Perhaps Mr.. Page |
Tyler, native of Africa, who breaches
n South Memphis, may further enlighten
,ur neighbor as to who is the Mr.. Tyler,
# Tennessee, he is in search Of We
wish him good fortune il his search, and
yhen he travels again may we be there
o see.
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nH- The terrible crime Of infanticide
is fearful,y on the increase in Northsrn
cities. The daily press Of that section
teen with accounts Of tender babies
killed outright BY their heartless meth
ers, or left TO die in the streets and alleys
Of the great metropolitan cities.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-23

Ia Since the first introduction Of
races, which was inaugurated at Chester
in the reign Of Henry VIII, the royal
family of England has always supported
the turf; indeed, history and newspapers
tell instances where certain members Of
il do so. not wisely, but too well"
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Negro suffrage-The Radicals Must Come
Out Against 1t.

The Philadelphia Age makes the fol-
lowing striking comments upon the
probable results of the elections
What will Congress do about negro
suffrage, which anti-slavery Ohio has re-
pudiated7 Such leaders as Sumner and
Wilson are pledged to compulsory negro
suffrage by the action of Congress. They
dare not abandon it, and they dare not
urge it. They dare not give it up be-
cause Of fanaticism at home. They dare
not urge it, for not merely does such
urgency involve certain defeat at the
Presidential election, but a nearer peril
still. For no one imagines, after such a
direct popular judgment as in Ohio,
Kentucky and Maryland and Pennsylvs-
MIA and New Jersey and New York
would tolerate it. 1t would be resisted
to any extent Nor is this all Reject
ing negro suffrage as the North has done
for Ohio is the North-with what show
of justice or decency can it be enforced
on the conquered and desolated South.
II, as the Radical papers now pretend,
the result of the election has been to raise
local prejudice against unoffending ne
groes, does any one imagine that North
ern representation from Ohio, for in
stance, will tolerate negro contact on
terms Of equality in the halls Of Congress.
Negro suffrage, negro representation,
and negro equality met their doom in
Ohio last Tuesday, and with it, We re-
peat, was the doom Of that great despot-
ism which for seven years Of blood and
ruin and corruption has dominated in
this afflicted country.
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"a The New York correspondent Of
the New Orleans Pioayune says that
James Robb, Esq, Of the latter city, aud
formerly a resident Of Chicago, has been
rendered the position Of Secretary Of the
Treasury in President Johnson's cabinet
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On wednesday. The sd Instant,

at ne house nov occuuiei as . boardinr-house
~ Mrs. Mahar. between Madison and Monroe
Eirceie. in the alley eat of Second street al Of
the Household and kitcten Furniture. con
veycd In saii deed. consistinr Of a caneral
aszQrtmcnt suitable for hoardinr-houss
The property can BE- bought a. private sale.
A rare chance 70 furnish q BOARDING house.
l. y. CARR, Trurtee.
Memphis, Tenn, October ID ls67. st
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Is TODD'S IMPROVED BULLOCK COT
TON PRESSES-double geared and 10
work by crank. Two men can make 500
pound bale.
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so CARVER GINS. from 40 to 80 saws. wood
and iron franc.
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10 TODD's IMPROVED HORSE POWERS,
for running Gins and Grist Mills-the finest
power made.
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DIR. j. B. MALLORY.

oFFIcE-Eo. $50 Vain st.; RESIDENCE
Old Raleigh Read, near bayou bridge.
si-a
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~ The Kansas City Journal, refer
ring TO the last negro regiment in the
service, which was ordered to Louisville
some days ago, TO "be mustered out,
speaks ofthess negro troops as the men
TO whose heroic efforts aud self.
sacrifices we are mainly Indebted for the
preservation Of the Republic" This is a
handsome left-handed compliment to the
white soldiers Of the Federal army. But
"the eolored troops fought nobly."