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maintain power, 40 beyond all this, and

maintain power, 40 beyond All this, and
chain and manaoIe The people. While
each acl Of aggression mAkes q "a
aggressors holder. ssAch act Of .sh.
mission makes the people NOR 4 snh-
missivs. Let the Radical deno.e
President johnson, put w,sa, m b;s
place, manipulate the s.rmv and navy
from nov until the ~ Of next March,
put for their PURPOSES the right men In
the right place.; and care not by what
majority you elect the Democratic candi.
date foe the Presidency. | do not believe
you can insuEurate him into Office. Re-
distance viii then be too late; with the
army, navy aud treasury under their
control, the party in power viii be almost
irresistible. Scores Of brave men may
lose their lives, but Il will be Of no avail.
Stanton will again ring his little bell,
and dungeons win be filled more rapidly
than during The late war. Our day viii
close In darkness and blood, and leng
dark night Of anarchy and Of despotism
will follow, ere the morning shall break
upon us-for none can tell in what future
geners.ion the warrior will arise who
shall deliver this people from bondage.
They have proclaimed in this State that IL
the people think that any but loyal men
shall govern this State they are utterly de-
ceived, let them vote as they may;of course
their intentions in regard to the whole
country are the same. Aud yet the people
seem enshrouded in apathy in vain are
they warned; in vain do they hear the
clanking Of the chains that are being
forged for their limbs. Millions of peo-
pie listlessly look on while few score of
perjured villains in Washington are hur-
rying the country to destruction; and
they will not believe until every Office in
the country is filled with Brownlows and
Hunters, and until the words of the pro-
phet may with truth be applied to them,
Behold now, your houses are left DESC
late"
The freemen Of this country might
leave to their children freedom and a
home; but, instead, l fear Il will be a
heritage of shame aud Of bondage. Can
not the people ofthese United States call
conventions and rebuke the vile wretches
who are plundering them of their liber-
ties, and check them in their unholy
work. Ifthey cannot, fear all is lost;
and it is useless to ask the question, what
shall the end be2 1t requires no pro-
phet's ken to answer it. Would that
some eloquent voice, like that of Ken
tucky's buried statesman, were here, to
call upon hepeople, to awake from the
lethargy that enshrouds shem, shake off
the dew drops that glisten on their gar
ments and 60 forth to battle and to vic
tory, fIs LEUMAs.
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Washington News.


1t is manifest that public interest in
impeachment is rapidly declining. The
galleries we're by no means crowded, and
in short time Senators will have more
tickets than applications for them.
Before the grand performance com.
menced, the Senate acted on and passed
Edmund's bill about returning acts
passed by Congress. II requires q bill
to be returned to the clerk of the House
or secretary Of the Senate, and not to the
House in which it originated, which is
the language of the Constitution.
Morton, Of Indiana, made manly
and eloquent appeal against this ont
rage on the Constitution, but without
avail
Sumner clamored for blood, insisting
that no time should be given. No, said
Sumner, not an hour. Howard also
joined in the cry, and appealed to ms
Radical friends. W
After long discussion, il became APP
parent that Sumner & Co. could not force
the trial through at railroad speed, and
Conkling (RadicaD proposed Monday
next as a compromise, which was car
ried BY four majority.
Among those for longer time were
these Republicans: Anthony, Coroett,
Edmunds, Fessenden, Fowler, Freling-
huysen, Grimes, Henderson; sherman,
sprague, Trumball and Van Wrinkle.
THE House managers were freely CEN
sured to-day for furnishing copy OF the
replication for publication prior to its
adoption BY the House -
Rfdieals profess TO believe they will
...se lie Executive 10 vacate By April
IA n. anniversary Of Lincoln's assassin
Econ rot the Presidents friends seem 70
bsve more confdence in the hnal result.
Js5qe Black emphaticAlly contradiets
the stftement sent West about his de-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-26
Morality Of the NORM.

A few weeks ago the New York Til
buRe had a leading editorial on the
conspiracy against marriage, in which
it alluded rather darkly to causes which
are at work to prevent the increase Of
families, which il regards as fearfully
prevalent in the northern section Of the
Union. That paper declares that there
is an army, largely appointed, organized,
commissioned, waging war against the
marriage institution. To this army-the
vicious, the foolish, the criminal, 50 mis-
cellaneous, so diversely sccoutered-
belong no small number Of the people
who find marriage an expensive luxury,
aud a great many of the people who coz,
slider IT inconveuient to rear q larst
family" Aud the Tribune further de-
elares that "the married do as much 70
bring marriage into dishonor and reduce
Il to inefhciency as the unmarried Ihi'
Is q terrible Indictment TO bring against
q people who boast Of their superior civ
ilization. al
Me- England Is this day pre-eminentlJ
The head centre and fountain Of crime
as well &c the hosbed Of isns and ultra
isms. No similar population If the globe
civilized or heaihen-bAs attained such
uurivnisd distinction. The above utter
,.ces Of the Tribune. taken By The Nash
vile Onion AID DisPateh, should be
sSSd authority.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-26
Murder of the Infants.

We will state a single fact recently
come under our notice, which illustrates,
as we'll as anything eau, the fatal corrup-
ton that infects our Christian civiliza-
ton; and before those who may read
these lines shall pay out another dime
for the proposed redemption Of the
" heathen,' we beg them to pause and
reflect If it would not be wiser to abolish
the worse than heather, the shockingly
inhsman practices that faint and are
certain 10 destroy our social system IN
less early checked by an efficient correc-
tive.
At a recent meeting of tie medical as
ISOLATION Of Androscoggin county, in
Maine, DIR. Oaks made the remark that,
according to the best estimate be could
make, there were four hundred murders
actually produced by abortion in that
county alone This astonishing number
Of infants destroyed deliberately every
year in = single county Of Puritanic New
England Think Of il The statement
is made in all possible seriousness, be-
fore q meeting Of regular practition-
ers IN the county, and from statistics
which were as freely exposed TO one
member Of the medical fraternity as an
other. IL this is indeed the civilized
condition Of things which We are wont
10 hear such frequent aud such loud
boasts, the mention Of 80 barbarously IN
human . fact must send . shock 70 the
heart Of every reader.
This practice above alluded 70 comes
under the notice ofprscticiug physicians
in particular. They see what others can
not see, and know What others can MOI
knov Secrets are revealed 70 them, in
the course Of their varied experience
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-26
Grant on Niger Suffrage.

There are great many efforts being
made in various Radical quarters to
prove that Gen. Grant is il favor of
negro suffrage. Now, we do not believe
it, and we will not beheyeit until Gen.
Grant comes out and states il himself.
We hope some one will take him 0 copy
Of this issue Of the Herald and show him
this paragraph. he may "talk horse "
when he reads 1t, az It Is said be did to
Ben. Wade, but it will do him no harm
to read It, nevertheless.
It will never do the least good in the
world. 1t vii tam out, as did our
inquiry Of the Bulletin here, as to
whether it was Cor or against a State
Convention-the poor thing dare not
even talk horse"
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What Shall the End Be !

Communicated.
1t seems a selfevident proposition that
the Radical party cannot maintain er-
actly its present status 1t must either
retrograde or advance. If the former, it
is ruised, and must sacrifice all Of its
cherished opportunities Of thieving and
plundering; If the latter, it will not be
by any increase in popularity; BY meriting
or acquiring without merit the conf
dence ofthe people, but by aggression; By
depriving the people slowly or RAPIDLY, as
circumstances require, Of the little free
dom now left them. The party which
but few years back proclaimed that il
had neither the power or inclination TO
interfere with slavery in the States BY
any enactmszt Of Congress, and that
nov forces that body TO interfere in our
local affairs as though Il had been con-
vertsd into a municipal court; that
boldly procAims that It is acting outside
the, Consultation that envirOns the
highest judiciary tribunal With enact
meuis 70 prevent is unconstitutional acts
from being investigated, I'D IL villain
Gus intentions from Seing frustrated.
J THIS party. I say, must in order 70
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ID r.. j "A M e = !,
IN MEMPHIS.


.DR. JAMES. FORMERLY OF JAMES
~ Lock Hospital, Custom House street, New
Orleans, Established in 1850 and for the last
PHIS, for a short time only, and can be con-
suited at his rooms 1879 Main street, webster
Block. from am. to / pm. and from 2 to
fGT. JAMES treats CHRONIC. MERcU-
DISEASES, and all DISORDERS ola CON-
TAGIOUS VRNEREAL CHARACTER
which he cures without the use OF mercury,
iodide potassii. arsenic or am. poison, but with
his NEUTRALlZEk, positive cure Tor all
ORGHNIC WEAKNESS, such as SEMI
NAL WEAKNESS, NOCTURNAL and d.
URNAL EMISSIONS, brought on by the
abuse Of the organs. early indiscretions- ex-
cesses or entailed hereditary, causing loss Of
memory, confusion, depression, dimness Of
vision and oftentimes insanity. with deplorable
train Of other symptoms, treated and radically
cured By an iniallible method. saving time and
expense. All diseases peculiar to the sexual
organs Of private character, radically and
Old diseases Of the most horrible class, where
the blood has become poisoned. producing
blotches on the face, small watery blisters
pains in the head and bones. liberated throat
and nose. sores on the limbs and body. scrofule
tesether with an endless number OF suiferinEs,
edectually and permanently cured.
DR.. JAMES Us recommended BY the press Of
the country, BY Professors Of Medical Colleges
and by the Medical p ofeseion generally. These
afflicted should apply TO him. and be cured At
Dr. JAMES cannot leave his home ofioe in
Chicago for lens time, and those who desire
his ADVICE should call AZ once. His rOoms are
At lsg Main street, over Wheatonis Hat store.
sPERMAT0RRHRA and SYPHILIS. Con
sultation free. LAT
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~n. 81 ,.' vs"''
n h icr ,his cause that a family physl,
clan y regarded AZ the tepo." s,s Mn
eoshaenes . wsss' 'i h esly whsn Stats.
1897 az s,sr,l;ur 4 sharac,er iorce an
omen allusion 70 he facts that vs ees =
certified statement o. 'nem NV ~ sash a
N Ss,s !, sss" inv, r. one remote county Of
New Ergland State. what are We 10 ex-
nee, Of the entire Statef and OF me sx
Nexe England s'A' sh;,a s are likely 10
M many ny !, n sar& IN he coming eeneraiisns
And what proportion Of those that i've
may be expected, aitsr suoosss;; ~ :, .s !
sistlng 'he m 'a,s. ,hn world win whole
a ns,,;s. and mowers ssch as belong 10
every being bornf Yet .a,s great aud
frequent crime is oo mm.u:s;a " 80 ssa.
ful an extent 70 ee =, hsaSsn' and spend
o. sp'sss p'' ~ monsv for preachers and
,eaehers 10 cover up the cave Of so hun.
cry sepulcher
The above comes from the huo OF tne
universe--the Boston Bonner % L'gnti
They should know in that quarter the
iacts "hicn Pe'' -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-26

'Sisdom and impartialliy q fs-sfsr is-
1 gree than any other authority ksown 10
the Constitution, and any act which may
be construed into or mistaken for an at
tempt 10 peryert or .eyade It's decisions
on questions which nisct the liberty Of
| the citizen and aehates the country,
cannot fail 70 be attended with unpro-
pitious consequences II will be
Justly held by q large portion Of
the people as an admission of the uncon-
stitutionality Of the acts on which its
judgments may be forbidden or frus-
trated, and may interfere with that ac-
quiescence In its provisions, which is
necessary for the harmonious and ell
cient execution of any law; and for
these reasons thus briefly and imper-
fectly stated, and for others which the
want Of time forbds enumeration, l
deem II my duty to withhold my assent
from the bill, and return ii for the con.
sideration of Congress. -
(Signed) ANDREW JOHNSON.
WAsnIsGroS, March rs, 1868.
Consideration Of the message was post
pened until tomorrow, with the under.
standing vote will then be taken, when
the Senate adjourned.
In the House, the Senates amend
ments to the House bill 10 exempt certain
manufactures from internal tax we're
considered. The House non-concurred
as to the tax on machinery, but agreed
to that in reference TO the tax on sales,
and also to the additional section refer
ring to whisky frauds by so to 81, when
the bill passed. mnmgFes ~
The Speaker presented various mes
sages from the President and Executive
communications. " 1885,.
Mr.. Kelly introduced bill for the
coinage of nickel and copper pieces of
Eve cents and under.
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Trustees Sale.

Under AND BY VIRTUE OF A DEED
u 81 Trust. made hv 7. j. and A NJ Cors-
well 10 me on the 18Th day Of Marc. 1867 said
deed registered 10 Record Book No. 50. part z,
l-agcs 80, fe and so. 20 SECURE the payment Of
cash q the highest and best bidder. on Thurs
day, the - day Of April. 1854 AZ u o'ciock m,
AZ the northeasi corner Of Union and Second
street.. n ne city Of Memphis. the following
descriped realty, in the counfy Of Shelby. state
81 lenneaeee, to-wits said tract, cuntaininr
ten acrc1. rucrc o. less. and ~ shown on ne
pan Of Farmrille. in Boof 40. part I. page 100.
herlsierz once, as lotsZl. =. . and q, in deed
from r. r.. stidrcr ard wife 10 Cromlir1. Tifis
geoe, but convey as Trustee.
March =. lsss. is-ii
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FOREIGN.

LIvERPooL, March 26-Noon. COTTON
firm. Uplands, lOad.i Orleans, load.
Estimated salos, $4,000. bales. -
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Ana USE NJ c NTS.
MEMPHIS CLUB HALL.

GRAND COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT,
VI Friday evening March "a. 1868, rendered
TO @. W. MITCHELL, by the citizens Of Mem
phis. A host os volunteers will appear. Two
hne Comedies and musical olio. Admission.
One Dollar. Seats can be secured at SOs,s Sec
ond street. I'll
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Memphis, Springfield and Fort Scott
Railroad, f

Railroad, -f
We are pleased with the spirit, as well
as with the suggestions and pledges in
behalf Of our people made by Col Nelson
as President of the Chamber of Com
merce, touching the new railroad enter
prise indicated in his letter in another
column. OF the facilities, means and
prospects of successful result, we are
unadvised. We hope, hereafter, to be
placed in possession of such facts as
will be encouraging and interesting to
our readers.
Unfortunately, It is too true that we are
not now In Q condition to foster in any
large degree even such important enter
prises as are ofthe most momentous inter.
est to the welfare of our city. But it is to
be hoped that q return of good govern
ment and the revival, Of the common
prosperity is not so remote as to justify
any sentiments of despairing character.
Croakers who tell US that Everything is
gone up" have less hope in the sense of
justice aud the returning sanity of the
American people, AID in the elastic and
vital power of our youngand vigorous ma
ton than we have. Our Northern neigh
bors are beginning to see that their own
well-being is bound up in that of the
South, and that if the North would it.
self live it must let live" One way or
another, we are confident that business
and prosperity win be revived again,
and that without great delay. pespot-
ism itself cannot afford to do less.
Aud therefore we think that all in
trinsic values will appreciate, per.
haps even within the coming year.
Demoralized, checked, and retarded in
its growth as it may be, Memphis
is destined to be one of the greatest cities
of the West, and they of its citizens who
patiently endure and wait, will yet be
largely rewarded. If, with what little
ready means we can command, manu-
featuring enterprise was now fostered,
even though with but a small beginning,
we believe the good result would be ma
terially fastened. We cannot "let poll.
tics alone" because good government
underlies and is essential to prosperous
future, But, under such rule as we have,
we can and should make the post Of what
we have, aud do the best we can in the
circumstances in which we are placed.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
Latest to Noon To-day.
NEW YORK.
cold and Cotton Reports.

Special TO the PUBLIC LRDorR.l
New YoRK, March &c, IL m.--Gold
opened at 1884, and declined to 1883 at
1880 am, and is now 1884.
Cotton-demand good md prices
tending upward.
Exchange steady and unchanged.
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H. HI. Gibson,

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
WILL OPEN AN oFFIeE IN THEMo-
w Collum building on Second sfreof in
Chelsea All business intrusted q him viii be
promptly attended %. ~
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Ion RkNI-A fINE. SPACIOUS sTORE,
~ No. - Main street.
10 more oeairaole business stand in the city.
Also larEe Hal. 8 By S. fset, tih siory, No.
y n ain street, Terms most reasonable 70
gooe tenants. Apply % r. d. WARD 4 CO.
seedsmen. In TIE later building. No. ~ IS
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Advertise i'm the ,-
WHITE COUNTY RECORD,
sEARCY. ARK.

IT. HAS A GOOD CIRCULATION IN ALL
Il the mountain counties, and is the
Only Newspaper I'm the Little River
Valley.
The RECORD Is read by all the merchants
N White. Van Buren. Conway, IHEard and
Searcy counties: also by many in Woodruff.
Prairie, jackson and Independenee. Address
JACOB FR0LICH, JR.,
ee0d Searcy, Ark.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-20
An English Lavender Field.

There is one sight in old England that
is pleasant beyond measure, and that is a
lavender field; it pleases from its intrinsic
beauty. The lovely color Of its flowers all
the silk-dyers are trying to match" but
can't exactly hit on the shade. Then it's
fragrancel--hal how inimitable, as the
sprays wave with the breeze. 1t pleases q
patriotic Englishman, simply because it
cannot be matched 'in all the world, and
he is proud Of it accordingly.
In this little island, no less than about
270 acres of its precious land is devoted to
lavender farming Each acre yields say
5000 pounds Of flowers. Every hundred
pounds of flowers give up, by distillation,
about one pound Of the otto of lavender;
and thus we learn that there is an average
production Of 1000 pounds Of lavender otto
annually. II requires six ounces Of this to
make O gallon Of lavender water, so that
Brittania and her children--you know their
names, Jamaica, Canada, Australia-togeth-
er with n few visitors, America, Germany
the enormous quantity Of 1900 gallons Of
this favorite spirit.
The lavender farms Of England are stu
ated at Mitcham in Surrey, and at Kitchen
in HeItfordshire, The lavender when in
blossom is resorted to by all the bees for
miles around. The sound Of their hum in
such vast numbers is quite enchanting; nor
do the butterflies neglect to visit so luXuri-
GUS o feast, the taste of which appears to
be particularly grateful TO them. The bees
love for lavender 10 80 excessive that Mt the
harvest time, as the sprays fall before the
sickle and are tied up into sheaves, they
will follow it even at a sacrifice of life into
the boiling still.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-20
Drruittes.
Miscellaneous Iin,ms

did and heavy. p''
-Four and Ave pound potatoes are Califor-
MAS latest boast.
Berlin has added 10000 to its population
in three years.
Memphis has a brick-throwing and win
dow-smashing ghost.
Piles have been driven one hundred and
sixty feet in SAN Francisco without finding
hard pan.
It is estimated that there are two thou.
sand news boys and three hundred news girls
in New York.
No less than two hundred kinds Of hats
are worn by men, and all fashionable, the
present season.
The Cooper Union Reading Room, in New
York, was visited last season BY 200, 900, most
~ working people.
AT Ballston Spa, n. Y, the Lafayette
spring, which ceased flowing 90 years ago,
has resumed business.
The Sultan has a watch mounted on a
diamond the size Of a silver dollar a juaor
thick, and worth $780, 1000.
Staten Island has been called the ''ely,i-
um OF eTilcs, having been inhabited bv Aaron
Burr Garibaldi, Louis Napoleon, Kossuth,
Gen. Morcau, and others
Besides the other premiums that will bo
offered at the New England fair, which begins
at New Haven. September /, $4,000 viii be
given for trotting alone.
The little girls of Patterson, n. J., fam
lily recently murdered a ucighbor about their
own age. by throwing her into a well TO OBJ
tain her hnc clothes. Ono Of the murdcresses,
Sarah Long, 10 yeara old, is arrested now for
larceny AT Newark.
On Sunday, the 10Th uitimo. as Mr.. W.
II. Wilson, Q~uartermaster's clerk at Brazoa
de Santiago, was taking O stroll on Padre Isl
and, he accidentally stumbled on an old iron
box, about four inches square, which was
found to contain diamonds, emeralds and ru-
bics, worth nj least $780, 600.
There ia o. story told Of an Itishman who,
having newly arrived in an Eastern State, was
asked during an election, on which eide no
would vote. eye have 0 Government hero,
l suppose ~ questioned Pat. '"Jo be sure
we have was the ready response. "Weli,
then, - said the Cclt, will q malicious wink,
Just you put me down 90 vote against po
anyhow
"A witness In court, who had been caution.
ed to give a precise answer 20 every question.
and not to talk about what no might think
the question meant, was Intercepted as fol-
lOwet You drive O wagOnt' "No, cir, | 90
not why. man, did you not tell my learn
ed friend 50 this momcutI" "NO, sir, ] did
not" "Now, sir, 1 put It TO you ON oath. do
YOU not drive q w0gOn3' "No, sir" Whit
is your occupation, theni' II drive a horse,
sir.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-20
IN. IRWIN q Co.
No. lhg South Clark street, Chicago.
shnItered C%onstImnons.

Our constitutions arc elastic, They arc not oaaiy
shattered. In fact, strictly speaking, Death alone can
ahattor them, for they represent the reserve Of vitality,
which enables the onfeeblcd system 10 react, whom the
pressure Of disease Is removed from II. But Il Is tho
fashion. when the body Is weak, tho circulation languid,
tho nerves tremulous and the mind depressed, 10 gay
that the constitution Is ruined, or broken down or shat
tered, In cases Of the kind described administer HOS
LETTERS STOMACH BIrTERS. aud II will soou
be seen how little ground t"cro % for this atcreotypcd
not Of alarm. The tonic and Alternative properties Of
the specific, rapidly dihusod through tho whole organ
isation by the stimulant which forms ito basis. will i'm
mediRtoly create n favorable reaction, and this reRni.
mating process will go on rs tho medicine is continued
until strength, health and mental activity arc ~comploto'
" restored. Every day cures Of this kind are accom-.
plished. Let the debiitated invalid, when told by his
condoling friends that "his constitution Is shattered"
have recourse at once 70 this notwithstanding prep
a~ration, In which the finest somnchics and Alternatives
OF tho yegeta0e kingdom are represented, aud no Will
soon be able 20 meet thor gloomy torebodings with q
confident smile, and 20 announce that he has taken q
new lease Of life under ttR gltaltgtDH 0DeFNtiOu.