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The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-10

June Is ls68-In accordance,
8et enttl-o an act 20 !
d Free Bsnking In
Improved harch Is, 1855
W the holders Of the
Bank duly audited under hid
sent the same NJ the Rankins
State Auditor. for the purll
year rum this 4 te, ethereiI
Bank tor said purpose viii bel
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COAL.

A LEXANDER a. ERsKIsE
n tk~bT ALEXANDER, JNO. W. ERSRISE)
PHOENIX SHAN WOODwORK,sG MASUFACrORi ,
Doors, sash, Blinds Moulding. Scroll Saving and
Turning, Furniture.
$40 NEW LEYEE now PETER srREETJ Corner Of Era.o
p. o. Loeb Boy go
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COMMIssIox HOU.E

OF SUMMERS BRANNINs',
ls6 Gravier street. New Orleans, La
BRAsNIN, SUMMERS CO..
No. 60 second street Louisville KY
LIBERAL cash sdva made other produce
receipt of consigned 60 the above address
friends In New York or Liverpool
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PETER sPEcHf VS. ELLEN MILLER td)-No. 1888
Sixth JUSTICES court parish of Orleans.
PY VI8TUE OF = Wit of sri Nacfas
~ dir ected by the Honorsols the the
Peace will proceed to sell public ioa TUESDAY
segtember 18TH at 10 o'clock $50 ST Mary street.
between Laurel and Constance Streets
FURNn URs and ErFECTS
sesed in the sbovs suit per inventory on dle
WILLIAM GoRvIY Co-stshl.
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GEO. A FRERET. Cashier.

Bank New Orleans,
with sections 81 and IS Of An
ssiablish q genera system
the State Of Louisiana
notice Is hereby given
circulating notes Of this
Dr. wis Ons Of said at TO ire
, House, or At the Office Of the
Use Of redemption. within ons
te the FUNDS deposited by said
Reclaimed.
SaS. FAURTE.JR Cashier.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, January 28.- Banks re.
port, in addition to what has been al
ready stated, says if the naturalized
citizens of this country be tried, con-
victed and punished in Great Britain,
our Government is duly bound to
listen to their appeal and protect them.
The Committee claim that the doctrine Of
perpetual allegiance is symbolic Of feud-
alism and force, and is as absolute over
body as m nd. 1t has no authority here
except as an element of English COM
mon law, existing at the time of revolu-
ton. The report says the point we make
must be conceded, that the rights we
claim can be permanently denied is i'm
possible.
WASHINGTON, January 28.-Previous
to adjournment yesterday the Senate
passed bill removing disabilities from
Governor Patton, Of Alabama-Bucka'
low, Davis, Drake, Fowler and Hendricks
voting nay.
A report is in circulation that Geo. ]
Beatty, Radical, is elected to Congress
from the Eighth Ohio district.
The Secretary of the Treasury is OPP
posed to Ingersol's bill for issuing forty
five million dollars Of new legal tende
notes.
The case of Elgee against the Unitet
States, which has been before court fo
a long time, was finally disposed Of to-da.
in favor Of Government by the Suprem
Court affirming the judgment of th
court below. The suit involves som
half million dollars, the proceeds {
abandoned or captured property, and tn
decision sends the money into the I'm
ted States Treasury.
Il is generally believed By Presider
Johnson's friends that he will sign Ii
anti-C Contraction bill, PASSED last week
but it is possible that be may conclud
to permit the bill TO become a law by Il
lapse Of the constitutional time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
FOREIGN.

LIVERPOOL, January 28-Noon.--Cot'
ton active; estimated sales, $4,000 bales
uplands, 73@7bd; Orleans, s@SB1.
LONDON, January 2s.-It is now as
serted that new French loan of 10000
600 francs will soon be placed in market
EDIEBURG, January 2S-There has
been heavy gale in Southern Scotland
doing much damage. The shipping suf-
fered terribly.
LONDON, January 27.-The prisoner
Burke denies any knowledge of the con-
spiracy to blow up Clarkenwell prison.
Paris letters say the new army bill il
very unpopular.
Sir Cutting Earlys trial for bigamy il
concluded. The jury found him guilty
and the Court sentenced him to eighteen
months hard labor.
The bark Wapella from New Orleans
to Liverpool was totally wrecked on the
English coast, only three of the crew
and one woman was saved.
A half ton of powder was carried away
from the Government shop in Dublin
yesterday, and twelve Fenians have teer
arrested on suspicion Of connection witt
the affair.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
MARYLAND.

ANSAFoLIs, Nd, January 2s.-Attor'
ney General Jones has furnished Gov
Swami with an opinion directly con-
hiesiug with the decision made by Chief
Justice Chase in the Circuit Court in
the October term. The Attorney Gene
rSl says the civil rights law is uncon'
s,ituiional that the negro apprentice
ship laws of Maryland are constitutional,
and the United States Circuit Court
had no jurisdiction whatever in the case
on which Chief Justice Chase gave de.
cision, declaring the apprenticeship OF
colored children under the laws of Mary
land slavery or involuntary servitude,
in violation of the 18th amendment, and
was therefore null and void, and return
ing them all to the custody of their
parents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

DANA of the New York Sun, has dis
covered that General Grant used to
haul wood into ST. Louis for sale, and
when it was disposed of would shovel in
a load Of sand to take back to his farm. "
That of course proves that Hiram is
very great man. We published a few
months ago an account of his being sent
out by his daddy to sell mule, and how
he told the purchaser his instructions to
ask hundred dollars and take seventy
five, and how the purchaser preferred
the mule at seventy-fve, which ought to
be added to the collection in making up
the great history of Ulysses fame.
There are many things of this sort which
we have no doubt will prove highly en-
tertaining, besides his proclivities for
talking horse and enacting owl. Let
it all comet will only show that the
nearer you approach such greatness the
less il looks.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

THR Radicals are now more evidently
disposed to impeach the President than
ever. They are watching their chances,
the trap is patent, and Mr.. Johnson is
intimidated by it The New York
Tribune dares him to violate the flaw,
and says if he denies the right of Con
gress to restore Stanton, he is guilty of
3 misdemesnor, and subjects himself to
impeachment. Mr.. johnson trembles
aud trusts the people. He has been
busy trusting the people for two years,
without doiag what they placed him, in
Office expressly that he should do-de-
fend the Constitution against these and
all kindred assaults of usurpers If he
will do that, he may well enough trust
the people. But if he will not, be will
remain an eternal mark for the unerring
finger Of the peoples scorn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

For deed Ct usnrpalon, for violating
the Consultation Of the land, for roore
ancy 10 their sworn oaihs by The mem
bers Of Congress, the New York TFibun'
makes the following excuse. It's Hat
| footed admission that the Radical party
looks to the end to be accomplished, ant
disregards the infamy Of the diabolica
means. The Republicans, he says, dc
not intend to be put down by the Exeou'
tive aud Judiciary, or in other words by
the law Of the Constitution. This is
bold and extreme admission, frankly
made, for which we may thank MIR. Gree
ley;
The democratic party expects, by sup
messing the voice Of the blacks in the
Southern States, to secure decided ma.
jority in each and every one OF them, and
thus elect the next President and House
OF Representatives. For, while its adhe'
rents are not q majority Of the whole
people of those States, they are a major.
ity OF the whites; so, IL none but whites
vote. they can sweep every State south.
ward of the Potomac and the Ohio.
Andrew Johnson, Booth-made Presi-
dent, is their leader in this effort TO sup
press tho voice Of majority of the loyal
people of the South, and thus give the
control Of those States to that portion OF
their inhabitants who profoundly regret
that the rebellion did not succeed.
Johnsons power not being likely to
suffice, they now seek and expect the aid
of majority Of the justices Of the Su-
preme Court; whereby they hope to null
iify the power of Congress over the sub
ject of reconstruction and re-establish
the rebel predominancei in the South, and
thus their own in the Union.
The Republicans do not mean to b.
put down either by Andrew johnson, or
by the five Judges who are expected to
supplement and finish his work.
Ii they are beaten, and the blacks
crushed into nonentity, the ex-rebels
and heir Northera allies take posses
sion of the Federal Government aud
reverse the results of Gettysburg, Vicks-
burg, Five Forks and Appomsttox;
making ours such "white Mans Gov
eminent" as the Southern aristocracy
sought to establish through secession
and confederation.
This can only be done by the Supreme
Court constituting itself sovereign arbi-
ter in questions purely political; con-
trary to its own decision in the Rhode
Island case and (passively) in that of
West Virginia.
Understand, then, that it is false that
the Republicans are keeping the South
ern States out of the Union. They are
doing their best to get those States back
into their proper position in the Union
but not rebel side up. That's what's
the matter"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

The speech of Bingham, who was
chosen to make the concluding argu-
ment on the subject of the reconstruc-
ton monstrosity in the House of Repre-
ssntatives is generally pronounced ex-
ceedingly pretentious and puerile. 1t
was evidently speech unworthy OF his
distinguished talents, and the work ofan
advocate who is SO conscious of bad
cause as to find it necessary to mystify
with sounding words, and avoid all def
niteness and clearness of statement 1t
was made only to save appearances,
Just as the military conventions now
making constitutions were placed in
power by pretended vote for the same
purpose
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
HoUsToS, Texas, has $1,000 inhab'
itauts. and not a decent sidewalk.

General George A. Custer and Lieu
tenant Cook have just been discharged,
after a protracted examination, at Leav.
enworth, Kansas. They we're arrested
on charge of murderiog William
johnson, private in Custer
regiment, on the plains, last sum
mer 1t appears that several men
deserted from camp one morning, and
were pursued by Cook and others, With
orders. il is said, to shoot them. When
oyer.aken, two or fhree Of the deserters
were wounded, johnson fatally. There
was = ecnAic. OF evidence as 10 the cir
cumstauees Of the shooting, but the courl
held it was justifable.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

The perjured Ashley, of Ohio, has q
bill before Congress to prevent the Leg
islature of that State from redistricting
the State so as to undo previous Radical
gerrymandering. As the power Of Con-
gress over the States extends only to
make an apportionment of representa-
tives according to their respective popu-
lations, this will amount to another and
clear case of usurpation. But while
Congress has its hand in the reconStruc-
ton business we see no good reason why
they may not reconstruct Ohio as we'll
as another. The effect of Mr.. Ashley s
bill will only be to disffanchise the
Democratic rebels and give the State to
the Radicals, just as the disfranchise-
ment here gives this State to its black
and white negroes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
size Of Newspapers.

There is a weak notion with some that
the size of public journal is the measure
of its prosperity and Importance. Moth
inc can he more absurd. And nothing
is more manifestly unreasonable to the
minds of men of average discernment.
1t is an exceptional thing, characteristic
of Memphis and St. Louis particularly
that sheets eleven-quarters wide, aud as
large as bed blankets or thsater posters,
have come into vogue. The New York
pspers. in cityof million OF inhabl-
tnnts. are no larger; and our papers, in
ei,v only one-twentieth the size, have
leaned to their mighty dimensions at
once. /. costs a vast sum for paper, and
profits nobody, advertiser, reader or pub
Usher. The daily reported to be the most
profitable, if not the most popular in the
country, is the Philadelphia Ledger, not
eighth larger than this paper. The
Baltimore Sun, the New York Sun, and
The Richmond Dispatch, three papers OF
great influence, with some others we
might name, and emineutly successful,
are exactly the same size Of the Memphis
LEDGER. We have always thought the
policy Of our city morning cotempora-
ries, in running to the maximum ex-
IRENE Of size, was anything but good in
business point Of view, by no means
calculated to advance the interests oil
business men, and no more so to increase
their influence at home or alb Dad. But
that is a matter for them TO judge, and
of which certainly we have neither the
right nor the disposition to complain.
Embarked in common cause, and
under the same glorious democratic flag
battling for liberty and the principles Of
a free Constitution, we should be
ashamed to confess we did not rejoice
in their success, which we are privileged
to emulate. If their large size suits
them, our smaller size suits us ant
serves the public as well, pays better
and will contain all the matter they pub
fish for the reader. If we wanted tc
rival them in size we would order thu
largest paper to be made in the manu-
factories, and 90 to our capacious Jol
4
Office for type, and issue a poster which
would cover up The whole front of one o
their buildings. But so long as we fine
a circulation double that Of any of oul
contemporaries to be the indication o
public appreciation of our labors, w
shall believe we are right in our choice
of medium sized paper, which is thu
so substantially Endorsed by the goo'
sense of our citizens at large. If tn
Appeal will be SO ill-natured as to be
little our size, even down to eight b.
ten, The LEDGER may yet for all that Civ
il serious reason TO look to its laurels.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
THE NEWS.

General Howard recommends that the OH
cors and agents Of the Freedmens Bureau e1-
cept supcrin.endents of education now 10 ser
vice be dispensed with and officers of the reEu-
lar army substituted after the 18th OfFeOruary.
He SAYS a large portion Of the Congressman oil
Tennessee. Kentucky and Maryland have de-
prccatea the changes, which they say VIII WORK
ipjuriously against the educational and other
interests Of the freedmen. wesuppose such an
opinion proceeds exclusively from men in once
who desire to keep fat places for friends.
The steamer Emerald. from Cincinnati sunk
at Tunica Bend on Saturday with a loss OIL
three lives, the boat and six hundred hogsheads
NJ sugar
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

THE Baltimore Sun thinks the present
effort to subvert the Government more
dangerous and serious than that which it
calls the effort Of Mr.. Jefferson Davis
The object Of Mr.. Davis was to separate
and render independent a portion of the
States. That would have left the e.
mainder Of the States with their ancient
government intact. II one was an effort
TO destroy the government, the other is
an effort to overthrow the very principles
on which ell repubhcauism rests. The
Sun prouounces it a crime against the
civilization Of the age.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
CHARLESTON.

CHARLESTON, January 2s.-The FL
nance Committee of the Convention
recommends per diem of nine dollars
aud twenty cents mileage, payable in bills
receivable by the State.
A son Of Collector Mackay, President
of the Convention, assaulted the reporter
of the Mercury, on account Of an abusive
article in the Mercury.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

Tur communication Of Mr., Farria and
also that of Prescott a Co. speak IN one
respect tho same thing, 10 WI. 'nA'
capital has not been furnished here 10
be- used In manufacturing, to that liberal
extent which il should be- We ae'
counted for this IN part in our leader
yesterday by the Fact that hitherto oo''0"
and the purchase Of negroes had mono
polized the capital Of the country in
that condition we should not expect
good from all possible appeals 10 the
liberality Of capitalists, because men
will look rather to individual than 10 tue
public interests. OF this we do not
complain. On the contrary we believe
that when all take the best pos
sible care Of themselves the com
munity will be most prosperous
But now we have different status-a
condition Of things in which we believe
the public and private interests not only
in unison (as indeed is always really the
easel, but also becoming apparently and
plainly so. And we may therefore hope
tina, the appeal for the small, but neces-
sary, amount of liberaliiy aud capital
now called for will not be in vain. This
matter must not rest. Those who wish
woll to the city, as we claim to do, will
come mp to our aid in the expose OF facts
Then let men of means, small or large,
use them as their interests prompt and
We fear not they will find their enter
prise and public spirit promoting the in
terest of the city and producing at the
same time personal reward to them
selves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

The Cincinnati Enquirer, on the Both
and 3lst of December, received 1856 new
subscribers. 1t would be difficult to
name paper which more eminently
deserves such remarkable success. Be-
sides this is strong indication that the
sound democratic principles of the paper
are growing rapidly in public favor. The
tide has completely turned. Some one
predicts the passage of the bill requiring
a two-thirds majority of the Supreme
Court will give the democrats a hundred
thousand majority in New York. What
they have done this month has had q
prodigious effect already; not only in
New York, but in Ohio and elsewhere
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

The act which made Hiram Ulysses
General was passed when the present
party contingency had not arisen and
was not anticipated, aud is as follows:
Be IL enacted, ETC., That the grade Of
General be revived that the President
is authorized TO appoint, with the advice
and consent Of the Senate, a General OF
the army to be selected from among those
officers most distinguished for courage,
skill and ability; t1ho being commits
stoned as General, may be authorized,
UNDER THE DIRECTION AND DURING The
PLEASURE or THE PRESIDENT, TO command
The armies of the United States.
As the President is Commander-in
Chief by virtue Of the Constitution, nj
officer can be placed over him, nor cal
any act independently Of bis direction
The "law" which gives supremacy +
any subordinate officer within the juris
diction Of the United States, it viii b
the duty Of the President FIRST to vet
and then 70 resist. II the bill passes
Grant shsuld be sent 70 look after th
Indians on the Rocky Mountains or dc
pcsed forthwith to his grade o. Asjo
General. and Hancock appointed in b
place Bat We suppose Mr. Johnso
will siil trusts ihe peOpla."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

Tue Pii,sburg Post is far in advance
of most of its Northern contemporaries
and speaks out its earnest sentiments IN
the paragraph which follows. We fear
its sound views viii no, so pernesie the
Northern masses as TO move them before
the Presidential election;
ConreRti0ns OF the people should he
called all over the Union, and through
them Congress should be shown where
the real power lies. We believe. there Is
no better remedy; aud We think the
time has come for the people thus 10
assert their supremacy, and to show TO
Congress and mankind that this nation
shall CO ntiuue to be ruled by intelligence,
under a written Constitution, sud that II
shall never be degraded under mon :
grel government Having the dreadful
experiences Of Mexico and the South
American States before their eyes, the
avoidance of thsir fatal error IN the
admission of inferior races to an equal
participation in public affairs, becomes
the first duty of American citizens.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
HAVANA.

HAvAyA, January 2s.-The famous
Mexican Imperialist, Gen. Marquee, has
arrived here. Romero has accepted the
Secretaryship of the Treasury of Mexico
The Captain General of Cuba assures
Jaurez that Santa Anna will not be per
mit,ed to undertake any fillibustering
expedition.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

WHILE Tennessee is ruled by one
small satrap aided by not more than FIVE
hundred satellites, by false promises,
fisttery and deception. of the negroes,
and with the aid of the two hundred
Washington usurpers, it is remarkable
that the Congress now rules the whole
body of American States against their
will The notion of the sovereignty of
the people is obsolete. Usurpations are
now placidly borne, instead of raising
the tornado. When the Southern States
seeded the whole North rose en- masse,
and to its twenty millions, forms, laws
and constitutions which stood in the way
of subjugation were swept away as chat,
on the pretense that the safety OF the
State was the supreme law. But now
that a second rebellion not only against
the Union, but also against the very
principles of republican institutions is
set up, we find the sovereign people
standing on triaes, and waiting the slow
and uncertain motion of the red tape Off
ces. Overthrow both the Executive and
Judicial departments of the Government,
and we doubt whether the Northern peo-
pie will do anything but gas about it un-
til the Presidential election. After that
their hands may be tied, and then we
shall have at least the blessings of
monarchy, without its names and forms.
That will be an Improvement Vire la
Emperor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

Is the WisconsiR Legislature, resolu-
tons have been passed by both Houses
asserting in the strongest terms the right
Of expiration, and demanding protee-
ton for American citizens abroad, native
or adopted.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
BY TELEGRAPH.
Latcal 10 Noon To-day.
NEW YORK.
cold ana COTTON RepoIts.

Special 10 the PUBLIC LKpoER.l
NRw YoRK, January rs, IL m.-Gold
opened at l4ll; at 1924 am. was l4ls;
at II am. was l4ls, and is now l4ls'
Exchange has advanced to lOs3@llOf'
The cotton market is quiet but firm !
quotations nominally unchanged.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28
COTTON YARNS AND C0RDAGE,
Equal to Any in the Market.
f L o u r. {:

"CIarksviIIe City MiTns," xxx.
"Andrew Jackson" Mills. xxx.
Lafayette Gold Dust" Mills, xxx.
"Cobbs' Excelsior" Mills, xxx.
"New York. Mills.
"Kimbrough's'' Mills, xxxx, xxx Ex-
ira, and M super.
The above GAINESVILLE, Team, FI0URS are
established and well known brands, and we
| offer them to the trade CHEAP.
sB- A full assortment Of GROCERIES and
| PLANTATION SUPPL IS always on hand
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

Tbs National Intelligence claims
that the constitutional point involved IN
the McCardle case, pending in the Su'
preme Court, is precisely the same as
that already decided in the case sof the
Indiana conspirators, viz; that citizen
cannot be tried by military commission
in time Of peace.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

II seems that Gen. Meade's despotic
antics were performed under the espe-
cial direction Of Grant The smoking
whisky-drinker is now passive and un-.
reasoning tool Of the worst stripe OF
mongrels. Washburne pulls his string,
and he dances like wooden niggerjack.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-28

When Grant was, some little time ago,
asked his opinion Of negro suffrage, be
replied BY asking the inquirer if he had
seen Marshall Browns pGps-they are
the finest in the District" But within a
short time puppy Of Congress has beat
anything in the kennel Of Marshall
Brown.