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

THE NEWS.
The statement of the public debt on the LIST OF
August shows total bearing interest in com
of$2,sss, 81, 500, and of debt bearing currency
;n,e,est ss4.eOi,seo. Matured debt not pre-
septed. sls,osg, l75. Debt bearing no interest,"
si1O,so2, ssi. Six per cent. Pacific railroad
bonas. ss2. 2IO 900 making grand total OF
s2.6ss,5ss756. Yhs large amount is increasing
while II is not all ascertained as yet. The
amount of coin and currency in the Treasury
is sllO.O54,276.
The letter of Yarmouth. the Louisiana Gov
ernor, to the President. has cradicated the
good feeling for him, which was previously en-
couragcd and beginning to spring up. Senator
Jewell introduced a resolution. inquirins oil
him the time and place of the one hundred and
fifty murders he says have been committed In
the last six weeks. Hsstated that five hundred
and fifty stand of arms was kept opposite the
Statehoase, at the Republican headquarters.
The Governor had enumerated military
learuss. but had forgotten the Loyal Leagues
and the Grand Army of the Republic. which
was boosted by the Republican newspapers TO
contain ten thousand men in New Orleans
alone.
A special from sejalia to the st. Lous
democrat says it is reported there By several
c;t;zsns from the southwest portion Of the
sttae. that the sheriff of Benton county. as
sisted by his brother and two other men, at
,empted last Saturday to arrest several noto-
rious sesperadoes, known to belong to the ku-
Klux Khan. The sheriff. his brother and one
of the other men were killed and the despera
does escaped.
An Omaha dispatch says sixteen car loads OF
Mormons passed there Thursday for Utah.
At the Nebraska Democratic Convention
resolutions were passed denouncing Congress
for imposing negro suffrage upon Nebraska,and
indorsing the platform of the National Demo-
cratic Convention.
The Alabama House. by a vote Of seventy
three to thirteen. passed the Senate bill remov
ing disabilities from all persons not allowed to
vete by the State Constitution. In the Senate.
abiIl was parsed by vote of fourteen TO thir-
teen which neutralizes this, by taking away
from the people the right to vote for Presiden-
tial Electors and giving it to the Legislature.
II was sent TO the House Immediately, where
it was made special order for to-day at ten
o'clock. The bill will undoubtedly pass. Dis
patches from the recently elected Senators
were received yesterday advising this course.
The presiding officers of Congress instruct the
carpet-baggers how to vote. and they in turn
instruct the Legislatures.
The Union and Dispatch published charge
yesterday morning that some white and negro
Radicals have entered into plot to burn Nash
vile, Columbia and Pulaski. and to murder
the women and children. at meeting Of the
citizens, in the afternoon, a committee was
appointed to wait on Major Alden and ask an
investigation of the charge. The Union and
Dispatch says 1t can give the names Of some of
the parties. 1t is supposed that some crazy
fanatics are at the bottom of the plot. If it
really exists.
Burglars attempting to enter heQse in Phil
adelphia. boy Of seventeen fred and killed
one Of them.
News from Arizona represents Indian out
RACES as numerous, and in part committed by
savages who are drawing ratious from Fort
Goodwin.
The Florida Legislature yesterday passed
over the Governors veto. a bill to pay thu
members one years pay for services, from jun
to December. and adjourned at midnight unit
November 3. when they will choose Presidents
Electors.
Jefferson Davis was loudly eheered Q
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