Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-18
MEMPHIS TENNESSEE. SATURDAY EVENING JULY Is. 1868.

every harlequin proclaims his right TO a
o nination for an office that during the
good old days, buried by fanaticism, was
only dreamed Of by the best and wisest
Of the land.
New York is a progressive city. Yea
terday car-horse fell dead, and in 1--we
minutes q gaping crowd was startled
with the announcement, on q yellow
placard pastsd on the animal, Take
- Pills"
Last night, at my hotel, feeling ex-
hausted, as do all who attempt to I" do
the Empire City in few days." STUN
bled into bed, not noticing the quilt
snugly folded at the foot. and was imme-
diateIy in the land Of dreams; but was
soon aroused from the arms Of Morpheus
by innumerable bites, not fish or We mus
quite, but as thev say on French per-
fumery,the perita6lc bite-as penetrating
as friendly sarcasm--of that insect, who
Mon. Pere asserts is like train of cars
because they run over s!eepers." After
rising and examining the surroundings,
| found the enemy had drawn the first
blood. Continuing my search, / discov.
cred carefully wrapped in each corner of
the quilt, tucked in as aforesaid, two
pieces Of bread, which had been placed
thus securely from the kicks of nervous
incumbents for the purpose of attracting
the big bugs from raids upon unsuspect-
ing travellers en- route through the land of
nod. 1t was not the St. Nicholas-that
is one of the "best in the world" as your
esteemed fellow-citizeu, Col. Mcclure,
has it; but it was New York hotel, and
q permanent one-in a small way.
The Convention having finished its
labors, New York is cooler; and the
poet has ceased to sing
I" The weather the weather. 'tis SO cOnfounded
almost wish was real Hottentot."
To attempt to individualize the Conven-
vention, is task that the warmest
weather will not allow. Jehu Forsythe,
Of the Mobile Register, who says that
Parsons, of Alabama, is good Demo-
erat. Our old Brig. Gen. Dan. Adams, of
Mississippi, now practicing law in New
York, and one of the South's most gal
liant sons, said he had no doubt the
amnesty was good thing but it was
little to id late. /" Dick Winter
smith, the soul of any circle, was as bril-
liant as of yore. Capt. Martin, of Nash
vile, formerly of Forests staff-the
chief of his artillery, now a practicing
physiciag-was among the distinguished
Tennesseans present Memphis was SO
largely represented that comparisons
would be invidious when all were bril-
liant. We can't overlook our personal
friend, Newt. Hart, one of the most
promising members of the Memphis bar,
who is as genial as intellectual, and who,
as the lamented Gen. Carroll expressed
it, "never finches from any enemy or
forsskes friend" Having spent seve-
raj seasons in the North, and forming an
extensive list of acquaintance, it was
our object to accompany some of the
gentlemen from Pennsylvania, and show
them personally the class of men that
subsidized press and lying correspond
ents have traduced. We have done 80, and
the heart of the North beats a warm
response to the men of the South. But
of all the objects of loathing to the North
ern Democracy, it is one of those crawl
ing, snakish, wretched Southern rene
gades. We have made it point to as
stat in bringing face to face, leading
Democrats of Pennsylvania, and genuine
Southern metal, and those so shown in
personne1le to our Northern friends, like
the Colossus in comparison with the
traitors who disgrace your soil. The
sympathy among the good men of the
North is deep and sincere for the down
trodden South and since meeting upon
the platform of that great national party
(Democratic), face to face, our genial
leaders from the Sunny South, the SYM
pathy has yielded to outspoken cnthusi-
asm. and the acclaim in the North lie,
the South and her gallant people shall
be freed from the shsekles of that ac-
cursed domination which has left in the
wake of its progress wailing and desola-
tion. BEPPo.
Letter from Nashville