Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-03
Another Letter from Lagrange.
Removal Of Shaddingsr, Commissioner
ofRegistrafion, Fdyetfe coanty-Hov

ifUds done Copy of fhe Order, efc'--
The Everlasting Kukhr = Some Of
their Sayings and Doings-The La
grange Lyeeum-Interssting Discus.
sion of The Immigration and Land
Scheme QuestioH-Address Of Mr..
Coolidge, etc, etc
cA LAoRAser. tenn. March 81. 1853.
MFssRs. EDIroR: To show your read
ers how Parson Brownlow and bis Dep
uty Governor and alter ego, Boynion,
transact public business and how arbi-
trarily, coolly and sans ceremonfs they
take of the head Of one Of their subor'
dinates who proves insuficiently abject
and servile, or does not come up to the
full and perfect standard Of the lowest
down radicalism; / herewith send you q
copy OF the order by which Mr.. Shad'
dinger, late Commissioners Of Registra-
ton for this county, was deprived Of that
Office, and one ]. G. Wilson appointed in
his place. That the peopleimay see what
well educated, tasteful aud elegant schol-
ars are appointed to Office nowadays in
Tennessee, under our beautiful, sweet
smelling radical regime, the printer is
requested to set up the following true
copy :" precisely as written-verbatin', ct
hteratini, et "spellatim !"
EXECUTIVE 0PYIcE. .NAsHvILIR Tenn,
10 rrta " February 18th, 1868.
n. Shaddinger, somerville. Tennessee.
For good and sufficient reasons your
appointment as Registera for Fayette
county, is this day annulled, and j. G.
Wilson is commissioned to fill the va
cuncy occasioned thereby. ar
Respectfully, W. G. BRowSLow.
Per Daniel T. Boynton, A. G. and acting
Pr. Secetury.
A true copy. 10. WILSON,
Com'r Of ReEis'n for Fayette County.
P. S. No polls will be received upon
certificates of registration from and after
the 28th Of February, 1868, issured by
N. Shaddinger, Commissioner, having
been removed. tal j. G. WILSON.
See what splendid thing must be the
scholarship, what prodigy the genius,
of Mr.. j. G. Wilson He makes his first
order assuming office postscript" to
the Governors note announcing to
Mr.. Shaddinger his decapitation. He
spells ISSUED" with an r; and then,
Just look at the construction of the
last clause of that postscript; !"
It is perfectly excrutiating: "IsSured by
N. Shaddinger, Commissioner, having
been removed" Go it, Wilson; No
doubt you'll prove an honor to the great
Radical Rule or Ruin party, and par
ticularly to that most progressive section
of it to which you owe your elevation,
and of which the blaspheming, murder
prompting Brownlow, the modern Old
Man of the Mountain and Prince of the
Assassins, is the fit leader and exponent.
The mystic wide-spreading Kuklux,
with their somewhat apocryphal acts
and sayings, form the staple of conver-
sation throughout all social and political
circles in this region. Last night, it is
reported, that two companies of forty
ghosts, or animated skeletons, each
mounted on their pale white horses, de-
filed through the main street of Sauls
bury at midnight Hating o short time
there, some of the ghostly troops go'
into conversation with two or three oi
the citizens, and informed them that
they had come from the neighborhood oi
Pittsburg landing, and had crossed
Hatchie river few miles above Bolivar
at Hatler's ferry, about dusk. While
thus conversing, darky came out into
the street, and approaching the line Of
sheeted specters listened with awestrucb
visage to the sepulchral tones of the well
acted ghosts. All at once, q KukluS
| took off his skull ESQ runs the repert)
and handing it down to the negro, re-
quested him to hold it until he fixed uI
his backbone, one of the joints of which
had got out of place during the rapit
ride that night This was altogether toe
much for the astounded, superstition
African; he turned in dismay, and rush
| ing back into his house, slammed tht
door, bolted it, and was seen no more
Another darky was requested by anothe
Kuklux, in a different part of the line, tt
bring him drink of grog-he wanted
whole bucket-full; for" said he, :"
haven't had drop of anything to drinl
since fell, shot through the heart, q
the battle of Shiloh; and most Of th'
time I've been in very warm place.
Another said that nothing short of
whole we'll of water would do him, as b
had had nothing to drink since the frs
battle of Manassas. After the super
stitious darkies had all been frightene'
back into their houses, the whole gam
fred off their guns, making most un
earthly din at that dead hour of tn
night; aud as natural consequence
(says my informant) this morning not
"colored person" in all that vicinit.
could be got to leave his house to 60 I
his work. Even those that wait on tn
stores and contingencies were afraid :
venture out u
Take another Ku-Klux on dit. Thre
or four Of them are said to have beel
seen and conversed with in this place,
few nights since. "Csparisoued 10 th
h.h;I;n.n,s Of the grave" ghostly, bu