Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-29

great b ale, the Keystone, fenneylvhs
mia, will 20 for Seymour and Blair, in
November, by at least $4,000. There is
TO be no siufiing or bullying; the Demo-
Gratis are organized, and mean 10 have
fair play or fight Men Of Tennessee,
stand firm, and you will find that fight
ing, il needs be. for your rights in the
Union, will be different affair from the
conflict without
The Keystone has its origin as fol.
lows: "When the action was 10 be taken
that was to decide the question whether
the Colonies we're to slip from the yoke
Of Great Britain. the vote lin Independ-
ence Hall) was tie, one member absent
John Morton, Of Pennsylvania, who
was detained by friends Of Royalty, who
attempted his conversion. All were
clamorous for tho vote the destinies OF
this great country were in the hands OF
John Morton (the name of Gen. Forests
Chief Of Artillery, who was as true to bis
State as his namesake was TO the coun-
try). The patriot was true to his man
hood. He entered the Hall; his own
State, though her delegates had tied, two
and two, and the other States looked 10
her, and the President to John Morton
il he fails, the cause Of liberty is dead
Mr.. President, vote for separation / !"
The key Of the arch was formed and it
seems to have been the creation of an
understood national principle, as the
keystone goes, so goes the Union.
And she is going, in response to the
spirit Of John Morton, Democratic. II
is said republics are ungrateful' l
cant find q village or street named after
Morton, nor monument to his memory.
John Paul Jones fought gallantly in the
American navy for nine years, yet when
be died in Paris no demand was made
for his remains; yet they were held for
some time by the French Government,
who buried him with honors of war. /
have never seen monument to the con-
aueror of the Serapis. Robert Morris,
Financial Agent of the Colonies abroad,
whose immense private fortune was
sacrificed to the cause, Of whom Franklin
said she did more to secure the inde-
pendence of the Colonies than Washing
ton," died in debtors prison, in 1906.
No monument tells the spot. A slab of
stone, ten inches square, fat on the
ground, on Bunker's Hill, states: Here
fell Warren, June 18th, l775," an epi.
taphical simplicity that justified the
Englishman, as he viewed the monument
commemorative of the fight, asking:
Did the fall kill him ?" " iul
The death Of Adah Issacs Menken in
Paris has been commented on by the
press in ertenso. The New Orleans
papers call her McCoard. Her name
was spelled without the a-'twas McCord
-Adti,ide McCord. In l843 she lived
on Main street, Memphis, few doors
from Market, west side. She was
plump, pretty girl, of twelve years of
age, Of good behavior, pretty in person,
and respectfully connected. John Park,
or any of the old citizsns, will remember
her as plump, rosy-cheeked girl, play.
ing on the street. - -eb
The name of John Park calls up an
incident in which he figured in those
days of old Memphis, when the "old
folks at home" wore the bucks of the
day. One of the most dashing beaux
of that period was Milton, clerk in the
navy yard afterwards, who felt that most
terrible of all-yes,
"Of all pain,
= To love, and not be loved again" 50
Somehow, ye deponent knowetb not,
John Park, who was the cynosure of all
feminine minds land there were many
beauties in those days in the bluff City,"
as we have vouchers for in the many well
preserved matrons of the present Mem
phis), cut Milton out, and the boys got
wind Of it. One morning certain fam
lily, in which Milton had thrown down
Cupid guantlet and received a mitten 10
return, moved to another residence. The
boys Immediately prepared an effigy as
much like Milton as possible, and sus.
pending it from tree in the yard labeled
it Millions Paradise Lost. don't be.
lieve Judge" Park was particeps
criminis, but he was an accepted lover
at the house aforesaid.
/ presume you are aware that the
Radical orators are constantly harping
upon the amalgamation in the South,
speaking of the colored descendants of
he Hamptons and others. You can
discover by the following that the morals
Of the fathers Of fanaticism were not Ito
Drag of"
"a short time since visited Wrights
own to inspect the starting point of the |
Indian Walk, so famous, or infamous,
n our Provincial History. On the road |
o Newtown, short distance from the
Meeting house, l was shown venerable
chestnut tree, which tradition declares
vas the commencement of the walk.
The trunk is much decayed and quite
hollow, and rises from the ground in two
epassie shoots. The foliage is thick,
,reen and thrifty, and the branches low
md spreading.
"Furiher investigation, however,
brought to light the fact, that another
.hestnut tree claimed the distinction re-
erred to, and stood on the same road, in
IN opposite direction from the first
iamedI tree, and equidistant from the
Meeting house. 1t was removed few
ears since, by either the ak or the ele-
nents, know not which.
Can you now inform me, with any de-
,ree of probability, which of these trees
vas really the starting point? As the
vent occurred in 1877, one hundred and
hirty.one years ago, and but little docu-
nentary evidence exists, tradition is
ather an unsafe staff to lean upon. Yet
rom one OF these trees, at sunrise, on
ummer morning, three of the best trained
ralkers in the Province, with their hands
esiing on the trunk, waited for the sig
al TO start; closely behind them the un-
rincipled Thomas Penn, rode leisurely
n horseback for part of the distance.
We viii not attempt TO follow them over
III and vale, streams and mesdows 10 a
oint far beyond the distance originally
ltended, aud where. instead Of drawing
parallel lire directly 70 the Delaware.
was projected northeast to a terminus
bove Easton. By this unrighteous act,