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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-15

a-4LoxsDALE bleachsd domestic at 20
can't. RIcE 4 ExGEL
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Money 10 loan on CoIIateraIs at sas
Main street. COT

NICE linen lawns, 30 cents per yard
RICE & EyGEL,
7 203 Main street.
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A LARGE line Of cashmere and tveeds,
for boys summer wear, extra cheap, at
Rice. Silk & Co.'S, 3O7 Main street Ga
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-15

For Gray's Cape Lime go TO Moore,
d Co.'s, Howard Row. 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-15

50 doz. beef tongues at Al Jefferson St.
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T1oR RENT-A SMALL COTTAGE. WITH
or rooms, good cistern. etc., or will sell
Il for half cost. Apply at 81 Monroe st. 56-t
NOR RENT-ONE- HALE OF A LARGE.
{ Roomy Office, in Odd Fe,loTs BqiIding.
Tens q cheap Odd Fellows @; HBuiISaIn;s.
NOR RENT-A HOUSE. WITH ROOMS
and kitchen. on Winchester avenue. Ap-
ply at No. 1853 Alabama street. ooS
yIOR RENT-TW0 DESIRABLE OFFICES
in Cooper Block, No. Monroe street
rent very low. Apply to
PARTEE, Mc6EHEE X BURLES0N,
81 No. 332 Front street.
NOR RENT-THE VERY DESIRABLE
4 Summer Residence, known as the Samuel
Bond Place" containing eight large rooms,
and situated in a beautiful grove, Immediately
on the Memphis & Ohio r. R.. fifteen miles
from town: trains convenient for a. business
man, who desires health place for his family
during the summer. This arare OPPORTUNITY;
For further particulars, apply 10 fEkGUS
HALL. with 0rgill Bros. d Co.. No. Sl2 Front
street. %
E0R RENT THE BAKERY, CORNER OF
4 Market and Front streets. in complete bus
mess order, on reasonable terms to good ten,
ant. For particulars apply at 2S6 Front 81. 4S-t
NOR RENT-A TWO-ST0RY FRAME
I Residence, with seven rooms, kitchen and
seryants' room, large back yard. good cistern,
etc. 81 iuated No. 100 Market street; for rent
low. 10 a good tenant. Apply at CITIZENS
UNION BANK. or Mt ITO Market st: Ali
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-15
MATTHEWS d ALEXANDER.

MANUFACTURES AGENTS FOR THE
Nl sale of Agricultural Implements and Ma
chinery,
s34 Second Street, Memphis, Tenn,
VIII keen constantly on hand, for sale Low
FOR CASH, a full supply Of Agricultural I'M
plements and Machinery, portable and station
airy Steam Engines Of all sizes, Cotton Presses,
Thimble. Skein and Iron Axles, Reapers and
Mowers, Horse Powers and Threshing, Ma
chimes, etc. e ~
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-15
Commissioner of,Dcedss
ODD. FeIIoMs' RuIIdIng.

O. G. DAVIS. Deputy Constable, VII be
found a. the above once.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-15
FOR RENT.

pS- This Company Insures against loss by
R;re Marine and River Risks. vI-hI
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

Splendid Logic.

| In reply TO an article in our last, in which
We showed that the war Of the rebellion
which was commenced for the vindicatior
of the Constitution and the maintenance O.
the Union,' is under radical rule, still ..fail
ure" the Ottawa Republican,, of THURSDAY
gives us specimen, column in length, o.
genuine chop logic. Ignoring our premises
| from the start as to the object of the war, and
assuming it to have been to 'give equal rights
to everybody" or something of that sort, the
editor runs parallel between the prosecution
of the war and digging the artesian well on
the public square in Ottawa. The object in
IN digging the well, he says, is to get water
but after the drill has gone 80 down feet the OPP
position (dcmocrats) begin to pronounce it a
failure" and so ON at every new depth until
finally the water is reached and a copous, pei
lucid stream comes bubbling to the surface
and now, says this astute logcan, the opposi-
ton are more enraged than ever, because it is
proposed to distribute this water equally all
over the city, to black as well as white people
The object of the war was to suppress the
rebellion and maintain the supremacy of the
Constitution and the Union; the object of
digging the well was to get water. SO far
the parallel holds good. But suppose the
party that undertook exclusively to ''run the
machine" for digging the well, after they had
reached water, said "No-that's not enough |!
We have the machine in running order, and
as we have a number of Yateses, and Chan
oilers, and Logans, &C., in our set who don't
drink water, let's run her till we strike whis-
Ky" The directors might well say, "you are
crazy-your object is chimerical-tl.ere is no
instance in the history of all the great Jores
the world every saw where the drill struck
whisky But the infatuated diggers keep
"pegging away" and are just about as likely
in the end to find lake of whisky or a soap
mine" as the radicals are to attain the Utopan
objects for which they pretend to continue the
war in the South to crush the rebels and make
intelligent freemen and good citizens, capable
OF running government, of demi-savage Mig
gers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
From Europe.

Geo. Francis Train, having been released
from arrest, is making the most of his libert,
In Ireland. He has been delivering lecture,
ut Cork, and has crowded houses. Indeed, i
his own statement is to be taken, no speaker
in Ireland has excited such enthusiasm since
the days Of Daniel OConnell. In y telegram
to the N. Y. World, he says: 81 am here, all
| right. Have had an immense ovation. The
people carried me mile on their shoulders
Shall stump Ireland Derby quakes. but dare
not stop me!'
On the 2'th another attack was made on the
martello tower, at DuncannOn, Wexford
The garrison fired on the ASSISTANTS, who there
upon He'd, but soon after returned with large
additions to their numbers, and renewed the
attack by general discharge of firearms,
wounding several of the garrison. The fire
was returned and several of the assailants
were seen to fall but whether any we're killed
or not Is not known, IS the crowd then fell
back, taking the killed or wounded with them
as they disappeared in the darkness. The
government is using every means to discover
and arrest the leaders.
In the Clerkenwel affair, the Fenian Shaw
has turned Queens evidence, and positively
identifies Barrett as the man who fired the
fuse that caused the explosion. His evidence
is generally discredited.
Thos. Daley, alleged to be an American Fe-
Man, but concerned in the attack on Woolwich
arsenal, has been arrested on the CHARGE of
treason.
The English expedition to Abyssinia is an
nouilced to be again in motion. The van, at
last accounts, had reached Gooma. a village
twelve miles from Senate Gen. Napier would
Immediately push on to Autora the capital of
the Tigre district.
In the French corps legislatif, on the Goth
OF January, the bill for the reorganization of
the army being under consideration, NJ. Chev-
alier took strong grounds against the measure,
and argued that France should maintain close
relations with the neighboring European pow.
ers, all OF whom should unite to resist the en-
pre- OF Russia and the republic of America,
nations which, in the extraordinary growth Of
their territory, power and ambition, threaten
ed to overshadow the world
The internal condition of Italy is becoming
very critical. Fears are entertained of a com
detat at Florence. The intrigues of the Bour-
bonists are causing much disquiet, particularly
at Naples.
In the rigsdsg at Copenhagen, on the Goth,
the treaty concluded with the United States
for the sale of the Danish West India Islands
was ratified by "A unanimous vote
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
Next Governor,
gers.

The Mound City JounaI hoists the name
and advocates the nomination of DR.. n. r
CASEY, OF Jefferson county, as the next demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Illinois.
The Nashville Times has lengthy article
advocating the nomination of Hos. J. ID. CA
TON tor the same office. The Times saws with
as much truth as propricty:
The man who occupies the executive chair Of
the State of Illinois should be a man of extraor-
diary administrative ability, profound and log.
zeal thinker, correct reasoner and a gentleman
OF eminent legal ability. In no one are these
qualifications found in higher degree than in
Hon. John ID. Cation, of Ottawa. For many
years member of the supreme court of the
State, he has won for himself distinction as a
lawyer, gentleman and scholar, that is to be en-
We'd by all. We have no word to say against
other gentlemen who have been spoken of in
this connection; any of them would make ex.
cellent officers, and we could willingly and
heartily support Marshall Aleu- or any other
gentleman whom the democracy might nominate
but would prefer to see Judge Cation nominated
We are not advised that Judge c. covets, or
would under any circumstances take such 4.
but if he will stand it. our Rush
vile friend can bet high the democracy here
abOuts are "with him" with an emphasis
double sized capitals.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
Gov. Yates.

a despatch from Springfield, Illinois, to the
Chicago papers, says
From information received here from Wash.
inSton, it seems certain that Dick Yates will re-.
sign his position as Senator, if he rscoyers from
his present attack If vacancy occurs. the
Governor would have to appoint Senator to FIJI
1t until the meeting of the Legislature, and it i.
considered most likely that Cen Jno. NJ. Palmer
would be the man. Palmer has withdrawn from
the race for nomination as radical candidate for
Governor, on the ground that his finance. will
not allow him to make vigorous CANVASS
1t Is not stated what the nature OF tn.
present attack" of Dick Yates is, but that it
IS something very bad is clear enough from
the fact that few days ago he Mortified the
ladies at the public table at Wiiards, in
ashinton, by appearing in the dining room
at breakfast III an exceedingly airy costume,
by trifiing elongation of the truth called his
night shirt. 1t is stated, however, that the
present attack" WAS no. the result of Dicks
over rgid t.thtulness as y member of Senator
Wilson's Congressional Temperance Society.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
Can't See It.

The editor of the Republican is in a muddle.
He is unable tesce the connection" between
Gen. Grant and the bondholdcrs. In his
agony to find an calculation of so deep mat
ter, he relates an incident that occurred as he
"passed into the vault adjoining the east side
OF the court house on Urgent business - But
the incident" he encountered in that fragrant
region, as he passed in on "urgent business, -"
appears only tohave muddled him the deeper
lie couldn't see the connection
Suppose, instead of spending his time at.
tending to urgent business around the odor-
ferrous vaults son the east side of the court
house" he should read an account of the or.
gan'zation OF the great Central Grant Club in
New York city, the first movement towards
bringing out Gen. Grant for the presidency.
and note who were the prime movers in that
affair. a. I. Stewart, we believe, was Prcsi.
dent Of the meeting: John d. Sherman was
an active spirit. Jay Cooke wrote friendly
letter. Henry Corwth and II. IT. Mcclellan.
both bank presidents, were officers, When it
was said that Grant was too poor ION his sal
ary OF about S50,OO0) to make an efficient
canvass, the Vanderbilts, Morgans, &c, pro-
posed Immediately to raise pony purse for
nm OF 100000. Would these New York and
Philadelphia bond and bank princes have
dropped Chase and gone for Grant on this
grand and liberal scale without a sign from
nm or "ashburn! Who are the prime NOV.
ers IN getting up Grant clubs in any part of
the country: Bank presidents and rich bond
hoioeFs. 1t is so with the Grant club in Ga
,cna' In Peoria, in Chicago and Springfield.
Let the editor Of the Republican make diigent
reading OF his exchanges, instead OF exploring
the dark vaults Of the court house, his ourpent
business" and probably his present deplorablc
middle may be cleared up.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
Pendleton.

Tie Chicago Times come out "boldly and
strongly" for Gao II. Pendleton rs the next
democratic candidate for the Presidency.
Says the Times:
In Mr. Pendleton, in our Judgment lie the
highest and best hopes Of the patriots of this ma
tion. The popular masses instinctively feel this,
and hence the sublime spontaneous rising in his
bcsalf Hence the already solid northwest pro-
rouncing for his nomination. Hence the move.
msnts ion him which are breaking out here and
there and every where in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey aud New York and New England. All
this is the work, not of politicians, but OF the
people. II the people shall nominate him, 1t
need not be doubted that they will elect him.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
Louisiana.

.ck-aDd tan convention, ON
~ finally agFeed on the ar
Ii''c Ia tuition in reference to dis
h"hoi'isement. The article adopted is unex-
Dectedly liberal 1t DISTINGUISHES. frat all
persons convicted Of treason, perjury forgery,
oi'o'ry or other crime punishable by impris-
oh'heht at hard labor, and all leaders or off.
GERS OF guerilla bands during the late war.
Adly' all having held office under the late
lenel governments requiring oaths of allegiance
10 the conicdcacy, Or army or navy officers in
inc ia'c rebellion but the latter are only dis
lr"hchlSee until January 1st, 1870. The oath
l'os'- 'oeo ioi electors is not stringent, reouir
ing s'@r'y declaration to support the con-
stitUtion OF the United States and of the State
Of Louisiana, and to accept IN GOOD faith the
civil and political equality of all, without re-
gard to race or color
The article, it is said. will not exclude over
1000 Of the present adult male whites from
the polls, while the order of General Sheridan
excluded at least $4,000. The carpet bag del.
ogates Yankee adyenturers) and local radical
office seekers ere furious at the result, and
seem to feel that their power is gone.
The danger ~, that having done liberal
thing, the Louisiana convention, like that of
Alabama, will find it out before they adjourn
and knock il all over.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
v the negroes did fight!

DoS PIArT, a leading and influential Ohio
radical, saysin recently published letter that
Gen. Grant can't go into the Presidency with
his mouth shut that the 217, 900 Ohio Rcpub-
licans "wcnld not support the Angel Gabriel
on such terms" He adds "Weston can
walk, and Cobura can fight, and old Billy
Seward, with our government on the verge of
bankruptcy, can psrchase the north pole and
but all this won't scull pot mettle kettle up
the Niagara with y crow5ar, as Weed, Ray
mond IS Co. are trying to Do"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
Disastrous conaagration at Chicago

About O'clock on Tuesday evening, fire
broke ont on Lake street, Chicago, which, in
the next six or eight hours committed greater
devastation than any other fire of which we
have = record in the West, except, perhaps,
the great fire in St Louis, some fifteen years
ago. The night was intensely cold, so that
the fire ragged all the more furiously, as the
efficiency of the fire department was seriously
crippled. The fire commenced in the boot
and shoe establishment of McDougal Nichols
& Co., directly over the large book establish
ment of S. c. Griggs & Co., in the famous iron
block of l. n Bureh, running from the City
Hotel, on Lake street, to Wabash Avenue
The building was five stories high, fronting
over 100 feet ou Lake street, and running
back 200 feet to an alley, and of course front
ing 200 feet on Wabash Avenue. Every room
of this vast building was occupied by whole
sale dealers in OF manufacturers Of various
kinds of goods. every vestige of which was
destroyed.
After the destruction OF the Burch block, it
was supposed the fire was subducd, but soon
afterwards another fire broke out on the other
side OF Lake street, about half block in
diagonaliy eastern direction from where the
fire just described had ceased its ravages. 1t
commenced at No. 20 Lake street, and COM
pretended in its devastation from No. 90
down to No. 4 extending to Michigan Avenue,
only stopping from its inability to cross that
street, on the other side of which stood the
Adams House. which thus narrowly escaped.
All the buildings included in this second de-
vastation were also first class five story bust
ness structures, many with marble fronts,
heavy plate glass, &c. Substantial and in
combustible as they outwardly appeared, how
ever, the fire went through them as if built of
shavlngs; and the scene next morning was
enough toappal the stoutest heart The state
~ edifces which the day before 'rose to the
skies, and whose every floor was devoted to
trade and commerce, now lay in chaos, the
very material of which they were built being
unrecognzable.'
without, However, attempted TO 90 into
further details of this awful conflagration, de-
tailed accounts of which many of our reader,
have doubtless already seen in the Chicago
dailies, We subjoin from the Times of Thursday
the following estimate of the losses by the
two fires, remarking that the supposition is,
that about 80 per cent of the losses are cover
ed 10y insurance.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

1t is understood that, at the sscent meeting
of the New York Democratic Committee,
Gov. Seymour expressed strong wish not to
have his name used in connection with the
presidency, believing the indications were so
overwhelming in favor Of Mr.. Pendleton as to
place his nomination beyond question. The
understanding was reached that, except rs a
complimentary vote on the first ballot, tho
New York delegation would not therefore
urge the nomination Of Seymour against Mr..
Pendlcton. We agree decidedly with tho
Times, that, as the case now stands, Mr.. Pen
dleton is the man
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

IL Is positively asserted in st. Louis paper
That Gen. Grant, who was resident of Mis-
sour at the time, voted for Breckenridge in
iooo' The discovery gripes the bowels of the
radicals like gambouge.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
Political Extracts.

The New York Times, which, in spite of q
COOL deal of political trimming on the part Of
Mr. Raymond, its editor in chief, has hitherto
faithfully supported the reconstruction policy
of congress, shrnks from supporting the mill
tary dictator BILL which it treats in an edito-
rial as follows:
| We conclude that that the crusade now set on
foot against the present plan of reconstruction
the product of determination to keep the
Southern question open for the purpose Of radi-
cal agitators. They do not want any settlement
OF the question, Just now. And they will allow
OF none that does not in all respects come up to
| their standard. In this spirit they virtually
brand the existing law failure, and propose
to supersede it by scheme which will plunge
| tho South into chaos. It's condition is already
bad enough, with writes and blacks separated,
and the power of framing the organic law vested
IN the hands of the former. It will be infinitely
worse however, If the Boutwells and the Mortons
OF Congress receive the approval of that body
From that moment the entire law making power,
as well as the entire civil administration of the
States, will be controlled by the members of the
convention. A race but just emerged from
bondage, ignorant and semi.barbarous will have
the filling or every local Office. from the execu-
tive downward. Governor, judges, sheriffs, and
al INC iuHctionSrle5 OF CIVIL rule, Will be the
nominees of the Conventions, which again will
be duped and guided by the knaves and adven-
tursrs who pull the wires. A more appalling
aspect is not possible to imagine, or one which
more sffectually extinsuishes the hope of peace
fully AID permanently restoring the South to
the Union.
We have supported tho congressional policy of
reconstruction under conviction that, with all
its faults, it opened the way to reunited repub-
lic We have preferred harsh and in some re-
spects unwise and uni sst reconstruction, to the
continued exclusion of the South from the Union.
We have felt that the supervisory power retain
ed by Congress afforded an opportunity for cor
rscting the errors and moderatng the excuses of
the conventions and that, after restoration. the
South might look for more considerable treatment
II not for actual magnaniinity. But these en-
deavors to reopen the subject and to start afresh
by plunging the South into positive anarchy,
prove the fatility OF all reasonable expectations.
and the wildness and folly. if not political dis
honesty, of those who engaged in the work.
If they succeed, reconstruction will be postponed
indefinitely. DISCRIMINATION will be the order
OF the day. And no man will venture to predict
when or how it will end.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
Senator Pomeroy puts $4,000 worth of furni-

Senator Pomeroy puts $4,000 worth of furni-
ture in the p,rlor of his Washington house.
Senator Pomeroy, Of Kansas, few years
ago, went to Congress comparatively poor.
Even at s. 900 year his salary, up to this
time, has not been sufficient to make him II
rich man. But there is no telling what the
tariff rings, the bondholders' rings and tho
whisky rings at Washington can do.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

The st. Loui, Rpuji;caA, in reference to the
Supreme Court bill before congress, propounds
conundrum and suggests an answer:
The House bill, declaring that no decision of
the Supreme Court declaring n law Of Congress
unconstitutional shall be valid unless two-thirds
Of the whole court concur in the decision, is now
before the Senate. 1t is among the possibilities
That 1t may not pass that body and become "A law.
But suppose 1t does, and suppose that the Su.
preme Court should declare the law uncosstitu
tienai, and should do it by two-third vote. a.
they most surely would, what would Congress
do then! 1t is . body SO fertile in oSpedients
to get around and do away with the Censtitu-
ton and all obstacles to their unconstitutional
action, that We are it has in its pigeon holes
some bill concocted to meet precisely this emer-
gency. What is it 7 The plan is to tie up the
Supreme Court so that decisions may be made
against Radical legislation. If the two.thirds
law will not accomplish this, why not enact a
law tina, the Supreme Court shall take no juris.
diction of constitutional questions at all And
since plainly the court would decide that law Il,
be unconstitutional, why not go tho whole figure
at once aud abolish the troublesome and threat.
sning court altogether: Congress is as compe-
tent to do this as to pass the .wo-third law, and
why stop ct TRIES:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

1t has been definitely determined that the
Democratic National Committee shall meet OF
Washington, on the S@d day Of February ensu.
ing, to determine the place and time of meet.
ing Of the naxt Democratic National Convention.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

How THE CoLoRED TRooPs FoUGmr No
blythe records of the War Department
show that about 10000 colored troops were
enlisted; of these fourteen deserted where one
was killed; about thirty died of disease where
one was killed ! that nearly twenty were mus
tered out Of service for disability where one
was killed in battle. Look at the record:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

They have a literary society at Joliet called
iho "1'ri Kappa What does that I,nean
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

A despatch from Springfield, Illinois, to the
Chicago papers, says: