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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
Grants Peace.
The election of Grant is peace, is it ?
How p World, 18th.

The election of Grant is peace, is it
How p World, 18Th.
The Tribune responds by furious
article cram full of the names Of bloody
battles. What has this to do with the
matter in hand We are not asking
what Grant did, but what, if elected, he is
going to do. We know how he made var,
but how is he to make peace That is
the question. The Tribune has not
answered it. We must, therefore, pass it
TO the next boy. How is this peace man
of yours to let US have peace2 Beecher
says we must have :" in the Presidential
chair at Washington man that knows
how to drive" Sherman says thatiu his
election Hthe carpet-bsggers, scsllawags
and loyal negroes will be above the reb-
els of the South" Ben Wade says he
piH have peacej be will " fight for
peace :" that be will = desolate the South"
but what be will have it. What say you ?
The Tribune skulks. 1t can't, or won't,
say how2 Itprances and ambles about,
but it don't come up to the scratch /;
and if the rest Of you finch we
shall have to fall back on the peace
man himself whose Idea is that,
believing it TO be the province and
duty of every good government 10 afford
protection to the lives, liberty, and prop
erty of her citizens, | would recommend
the declaration Of martial law :
to secure theso ends" Letter January
20, 1861 Nice peace this is.-Nep
York World
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
THE NEWS.

Governor Seymour delivered an eloquet {
address to large concourse at Allegheny. yes
terday. He was greeted with enthusiasm.
TIE Rock City -four mill. at Nashville. was
destroyed by fire. Loss s4o,0 with only par
tial insurance.
The Prosser Radicals at Nashville have
pulled down their carpet-bag and substituted
the United States hlg. Some shrewd individ-
ual must have given them hint.
The Republican majority in West Virginia
has reached 1900.
New Orleans has become quiet again. Gen
eral Rousseau has issued proclamation that,
in obedience to instructions from Washington.
he will take such action as may be necessary
to preserve order. General Steadman has
accepted the position of Chief of Police for the
present, with the understanding that he will
be free to choose his own subordinates. These
measures will doubtless secure quiet.
A number Of Irishmen in New Orleans. Mo-
bile and Savannah. have made an appeal to
their counlrymen of the North in behalf of the
thousands of their countrymen disfranchised
at the South.
Mr.. woo'ey was robbed of box containing
one hundred thousand dollars worth Of 5-aos,
Railroad stock and currency. 1t was the work
of a sneak thief who escaped with his booty.
The Dewager Duchess Of Switzerland is
dead.
1t is fully confirmed that Prussia. Italy, Por-
tugal, France and Great Britain have opened
full relations with the new Government of
Spain.
The reorganiz alton Of the National Guard is
received with great favor by the French peo-
rla
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29

In the case Of Green against Shnmats
and others. 10 the Court Of Appeals, In
New York, il has been decided that
the Legislature cannot restrict OF
extend the elective franchise 10 that
State as Fixed by its constitution
The inspectors OF election, April u, 1867,
to choose delegates to the Constitutional
Convention, had rejected the vote Of
Coates on the ground that he had re-
fused to take the following cath
ia. b. do solemnly swear Tor affirm
that have never voluntarily borne arms
against the United States since have
been citizen thereof; that l have vol
unfairly given no aid. countenance,
counsel, or encouragement to persons
engaged in armed hostility thereto;
that have neither sought nor
accepted, nor attempted to exer-
else the functions Of any Office
whatever, under any authority or pre-
tended authority, in hostility to the
United States; that l have not yielded
voluntary support TO any pretended gov.
eminent, authority, power, or constitu-
ton within the United States, hostile or
inimical thereto. and did not wilfully
desert from the military or naval service
of the United States, or leave this State
to avoid draft during the late rebellion.
This oath, the court, by Justice Miller,
one Of the sblest Justices Of the State,
pronounced to be in violation Of the
Constitution Of the Uaited States as well
as that Of New York. The court pro-
nounced it "a bill Of attainder, which
by reaflirmation of the decision 10 Cum
mings VS.. the State of Missouri 18th
Wal, 277) is defined to be legislative
act which inhicts punishment without
judicial trial" And conditions
or distractions not set forth in
Article III, Section of the constitu-
ton of New York are declared illegal.
The same ruling would be compulsory |
here on any honest court. And If we mis-
take not, Judge Trigg has already made
a similar decision in case substantially
involving the same principle, though hav-
ing reference more especially to private
and vested rights other than the fran
chise. The New York papers say that
the enforcement of this oath by Radical
partisans at the polls should be resisted.
If that is sound doctrine in New York, is
it any the less so here2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
WASHINGTON.

LOUISVILLE, October 29.-The Cdu-
rier's Washington special says the public
debt statement for October will be pro-
mulgated by Secretary McCulloeh on
the fifth of November. The expenses of
the War Department for the month will
exceed $40, GEOGRAPHICALLY charge
able on the reconstruction account The
receipts from customs have been very
heavy, and will reach $l5,000,000. The
Secretary claims that there will be a
further reduction in the public debt.
Attorney General Evsrts had under
consideration to-day the whisky case re-
ferred to him last week. His decision
will not be made public until Saturday.
1t is altogether probable, with his en-
larged views, the decision will be made
satisfactory to the interest of the West.
The Radical clerks are on the war
path, having resolved last night to arm
and defend themselves against the Balti-
morians, whom they swear maltreated
some of them in their transit through
that city to vote in the October elections.
Secretary Scho6eld to-day issued an
order directing that all the clerks in the
War Department and the various bureaus
theresa, who desire, be allowed to 60
home and vote on Tuesday. As already
announced, seventy.fve of the female
clerks 10 the Treasury Department will
be removed on the first Of October. The
list has been made out and the ladies
generally are in terrible Autter as to
whose names are on it. One hundred
male clerks will also be discharged from
that Department.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
LeftwIch Must be Elected.

Though Grant should be elected, still
that of Leftwich is of the last importance,
The election is, beyond doubt, between
him and Smith. One or the other will
90 to Congress. In one case we shall be
honorably represented. In the other by
man whom the more respectable Of
his own party repudiats Ss I'M
worthy to represent any decent peo-
pie in anything better than the
business Of a sesvenger. Many Of
our citizens fairly entitled to registration
will be prevented from voting. But LEI,
them work, notwithstanding, aud all the
more and the harder. We should never
cease to struggle against injustice, even
when We know !, Is impossible to over
come it The spirit Of irsenen cannot
be eradicsted by bayonets.
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BY Ell E G IA P h
LATEST To NOON TODAY.
NEW YORK.


New YoRK, October 29. 1920 p.m.- Gold
ls4t; 6.20s, coupons 81, ll45; so
li2i; "a. III; '65, liz; 5.2os, new
issue, 1921; 81. ll0i coupons '6s. llOsi
1910 coupons, 1864. Government,
bonds, steady. New York Central, l2o
Erie, 1895 Tennessee bonds, old issue,
10; new, 70.
Cotton, steady uplands, 26is.
9am.-Gold, 1915; 1920 am, l34s,
Cotton, quiet and steady. Exchange,
9I@Iol.
~ m.-Cotton quiet aud steady; Up.
lands, 252c.; Gold, 1914.
Butt Riley and Abe Hicken, two noted
pugilisis, we're up in the Jefferson Market
police court yesterday, having been ar.
rested by the police while engaged in q
prize-fght in the rear yard of the drink
ing saloon, No. 1855 Broadway. They
had locked the doors, aud when the po-
lice came, at the call Of the proprietor,
the door had to be broken in before they
could gain admittance. Riley was badly
punished, and the entire party was re-
leased on FIVE hundred dollars bail each.
1t is stated that the contract between
the Postoffioe Department and Wells,
Fargo a Co., for the transportation of
the overland mails to California, was
closed yesterday. BY its terms the con-
tractors receive 81, $50, 900 per annum for
carrying the mails eight hundred miles
and as the progress of the Pacific road
decreases the distance of transportation,
he price to be paid will be correspond
ngly decreased. 1t is estimated that the
contract will not cost the Government
more than s75OOOO if the railroad is
completed next July.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29

The Regisfrafion.

White men have been ell the time
behind in the registration here. 1t was
not enough to restrict them in the fran
chise by requiring registration at all;
but it is also found necessary to Radical
purposes to make the registration as par
tial and unfair as possible, both by
restricting the time and by interposing
all possible objections. On the other
hand negroes have been registered with
out stint. For one color the blanks gave
out, and others were forbidden TO be sub
stituted. For the other, Confederates,
Federals and neutrals, there were always
blanks enough-the color alone being the
all-sufficieut voucher in most cases
known Democratic negroes alone found
difficulty in passing the ordeal. And the
negroes have been registered four to one.
There has not been even a preteuse of fair
ness in this whole registration proceeding
in this city, Notwithstanding the Registrar
said so many smooth things before be
began to register that eur people were
led to expect some show Of fairness. We
will not waste words in the expression
of our contempt for such interruptions
practices by az agent doubtless selected
for the very reason that be was known to
be supple tool of the Knoxville tyraut.
We expected nothing better, and we
have got il to our hearts content. 1t is
one Of the beauties of the Radical govern
ment, which, in the event Of Grants
election, We may expect TO be long con-
timed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
pro.,i.ution Of the Pulpit.

Henry Ward Beecher is a disgrace to
his dead father, who was at least an
honest preacher. Pretending to church
and pulpit, he keeps up, at Brooklyn,
a first class place of amusement every
Sunday. While John Allen is the
wickedest man in New York, Beecher,
not being without ambition, aspires, not
without success, to the credit of being
the wickedest man in Brooklyn. He
prefers Grant drunk to Seymour so.
ber," and is fonder of the Bureau than
he is of his Bible. he teaches the Cos
pei of Grant, and let's the Gospel of
Christ 90 to the Devil just at present
He is first class sophist, and has done
more mischief among honest people
than ever the Devil did With
the same zeal that be advo-
Gated Sharp's rifles for Kansas, and,
eight years ago, war on the South, he
is now furious for Grant and Colfax..
He is an extremist like Wise, and cratic
like Foote, and about the same csliber of
either. Like Barnum, he gathers for
frst.cl specimens of the ourang-
outang and other remarkable things,
sometimes nothing better than an over
grown monkey or monstrosity. But be
wins in the long run by persistence. For
after all, the more numerous classes of
men are bigger fools than he is, and sub
ject to be humbugged. Henry has always
been gifted in this art, and ought to know
how to get on the popular side by this
time, as well as be knows the way to
Heaven by the Puritan method.
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No Mach the Worse for the Csnsti.
fufiOu.

tution.
II is reported that a French Savan.
who was leciuring on the subjec, Of a
new theory relative 10 the transmission
Of light. was answered by Professor
Faraday that his theory was opposed to
well known facts in natural philosophy.
To this the Savan replied, 80 much the
worse for the facts" So, when we tell
the Radical usurp.rs that their theories
and practices are adverse to the we'll
known aud settled principles of the
Constitution, they reply go much the
worse for the Constitution. Their theory
is necessity, a higher law, which is
above the Constitution. The Constitu-
ton is so much waste paper, dead let
ter, and will remain forever obsolete in
this country, so long as they have the
control Of it. Instead Of being white
mans government, as our fathers made
it, in which the poor men Of America are
rulers and sovereigns, the Government
belongs to the congressional Oligsrcby,
and is controlled by the bondholders,
carpeters and negroes, to whom the poor
white men, comprising the majority con-
stitutionally enfranchised and free, are
mere serfs and slaves. Whata charming
country for poor white men to live in
What sensible man would not prefer a
despotism to such republic as this-a
governmental which abuses are tolerated
as necessities of the situation, and men
are found to declare as to the Magma
Chsrta OF our liberties--"s so much the
worse for the Constitution" whenever by
it citizen claiming to be a freeman pre-
tends to assert the rights which it gives
to him?
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shinment Of Cntfan.

The runor Of Bn interruption in the
Memphis aud Louisville line for ship
ment Of cotton is contradicssd. Some
important repairs are iu progress Bat
cotton will still 90 By the Nashville and
Northwestern road. which has set apart
one hundred and fifty extra cars for the
purpose. The consequences viii only be
10 increase, instead Of diminishing, the
facilities for shipment which. nOtwiih-
standing the spparent inisrrupiion. begin
snd viii continue fsoz this lins forward.
No loss of tine in consequence
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
Indignation Meeting.

A public meeting has been called to
express the view of the people as to the
fact of refusal Of registration papers on
the ground that some poor devils had the
misfortune to be born white. What is the
use squirming and making mouths about
it? Are we not all slaves to Brownlow
& Coz And what business have we
asking of our masters, what dosst
thou ." The fact that thing is just and
right is not a sufficient reason why it
should be conceded to six or eight hun
dred here who have no certificates, and
have committed the original sin of
being born white. The fact that wrong
is done only commends the act of the
Registrar all the more to our rulers. We
shall not oppose letting off little steam
about it, as it is rather natural But we
would suggest the propriety of wearing
the chains meekly, until we get used to
them, when it will be all right. Let us
have peace.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
The Presidential Election.

Only three days for work now inter-
vene between this day and the Presiden-
tial election. The election of Seymour
and Blair is of the most vital importance
to all interests North as well as South.
If we are beaten it will be by a cowardly
and passionate Northern distrust and
malignity towards honorable and brave
men, whose word once given was good
and sacred, and not to be broken for ell
time; and might as safely be trusted the
day it was given as it ever could be in all
time afterwards. The result is with the
men of the North, ameng whom what
ever the issue, we shall ever honor our
friends.
But after all it is nothing to US of Ten
nessee in comparison to the importance
of the re establishment Of Republican
government in our midst If we have
not the government OF our State by the
old-fashioned, intelligent and virtuous
men instead of ignorant and villainous
traitors and adventures, we can never
prosper, pay our debts or have good
order, good society and peace within our
borders, let who will be President If
Seymour is elected. that ia assured. If
Grant, will he obey the Constitution SO
far as to see that Tennessee has Re-
publican instead of a scsllswag and
tyrannical one, in which no right is recog-
nized which stands in the way of the
Adventures aud the spoils ? If not,
then we shall see what we shall see. Let
us have peace.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
freedmen. Rnrenn.

Gen. Howard, in bis last report 10 the
Secretary of War. evidently speaking in
the Radical interest. expresses the opin-
ION that the Bureau should not be dis
continued. By encouraging the negroes TO
idIeness,it will command many vO,es'And
aid in securing the Radical ascendaney.
The Buresu will Of course be continued
until Radicslisn is pot down. IL viii
cost the poor white iabOring men Of this
country hundreds Of millions in taxes on
everything they eat, wear and use. Bat
What Of all that II the usurpiug party is
TO be pr06tsd By IL
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
FOREIGN.

LIVERPOOL, October 29.-Cotton, firm |;
estimated sales to-day, $4,000 bales; up
lands, lid; Orleans, HID.
ILLS a.m.-Cotton buoyant; sales, H.
900 bales; uplands, I'D; Orleans, ll2d.
l:2O D. m.-Cotton firm and unchanged.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29

ROBERT J. WALKER being asked by a
Philadelphia money operator whether it
was true that the expenses Of the Gov
eminent were annually increasing, and
that since 1866 to an average of SAG, OO0,-
900 per annum, answered not only that
the fact was so, but also that the same
rate of increase would of necessity con-
tinue, without decrease of expenditures
or an increase of the revenue. He is a
competent man in these matters, and
speaks by the card.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29

The local editor of the Paducah Ken
tuckian drew sewing machine in the
Paschsll House lottery. He now adver-
tises for good looking young woman to
come and run it for him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29

rrHE NEW AND ELEGAETLr TURN-
i ishei Bal Room and Parlo .. IN Cochran'f
new huiIfIrr = Main. between Washington
ard Poplar streets. w.ll b rented 70 parties q
unquesiion,hle rugpcctnbility- ArpJ % l. g
LOEB, on u. premises zap EtAirtl -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
GOBLIN DRUM,
Varieties Theater,
Cor. Main and Washington SITS.

j. s. RERkY. ...-...-..-..---..-.--.Stage Manager
ON MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST slsr,
" the abeve place Of Amusement will reopen
for the regular Pail and Winter Season with an
entire nsw company Of Male and Female Ar
lists Of weIl-known celebrity. who will appear
every evening in a variety Of songs. Duets.
Dances, Nerroisms. Burlesques. farces, Dra-
ma. etc Iho interior has been beautifully
decorated: the stage furnished with set Of
splendid NeW Scenery, also new and beanti-
fal Drop Curtain, By samuel W. 0ullck, TIE
talented Scenic Artist Of the New Memphis
ne above Il the only place Of the hind in
Memphis where you can pass conFiFia even
ina AZ q small expe1se. -.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
NEW ORLEANS.

New ORLEANS, October 20, II am.
Cotton steady; middlings, 2as. Gold,
l34k.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-29
Upton WEEKLY RECORD.
SAN. p. ROSE, Editor and ProPri'r.
THE RECORD is PUBLISHED EVERY
Il Friday. At
Covington. Tennessee,

and Is an independent Democratic paper. IL
circulate widely IN the counties 81 Iiptons
Lanicrdaie, Haywood and fayetfe. ard 4 the
Bet advertisinr medium. threugh which the
merch ants Of Memphis may I'd rsrtisc for coun-
try trade, 70 be found IN West le2ressee.
specimsn copies furnished gratis 70 al uhe
~ - SAN. p. ROSE.
vu-E esrinrton. Tea.
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-02-18

Patterson, of New Hampshire Sprague and Ia.
dies; Representatives Banks, Trimble, Munger,
Poland, Phelps, Wood, Randall, Van Trump,
and others Of the House Of Representatives,
Gems. Augur, Humphreys, Ramsey, Crane, Mil.
Ter, and Poe; Adjutnnt General Thomas Pay
master General Brice; General Hunter and Ia
dies; Admirsis Lee and Radfordi Commodore
jenkins, United States Navy Ex-Governor
Moorebead; Mayor wallseh and LADY Judge
Loring, of the Court Of Claims, and ladies;
Mrs. Col Wheeler, Of Now York; Hon. J. M.
Tomepy, of tennessee; Sir Edward Thornton,
British minister Baron stoecki, Russian minis.
ter; NJ. 7. Berthemy, French minister; Baron
Gerolt, Prussian minister; J. N. Rangabe,
Greoian minister; Blacque Bey, Turkish minis.
ter; Chsvalier Marcelli Cerrat, italian minister,
and other leading representatives Of the Diplo.
matte Corps; Hon. Joseph Wilson, Commissioner
Of Land Office; VIM. Fsxon, esq, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Hon. Joseph A, Ware.
Solicitor Sixth Auditors Office, and hundreds Of
others, who congregated in one brilliant Assem-.
blage to extend their congratulations to the
charming ladies Of the White House, Mrs. Pat.
terson and Mrs Slower. The President looked
remarkably we'll, and was in excellent humor,
his greeting being friendly and cheerful to all.
The Misses White, Of Tennessee, assisted In
doing tho houors, and acquitted themselves with
remarkable ease and grace. The Marine band
was in attendance and contributed In enlive.
ming the socially Of the reception BY discoursins
choice operate selections and other musical
gems.
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-02-18

LONDON, Feb. l7-5 p. m.-Consols closed at
s2ia92I for money on account. Tho Withdrawal
Of gold from the Bank Of England continues.
United States bonds, 7l!a7lI. Illinois Central
shares, ssi. Erie, 49i.
FRASKroRr, Feb. 17-5 p, m.--Unitsd States
bonds strong at ISL.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. l7-Evsnipg. Much excite
msnt and activity in cotton to-day. The market
closed irregular and buoyant. Uplands In port,
9iasid.i Uplands to arrive, %. Orleans, 9ia9id.
Sales to-day 5000 bales.
Breadstufs unchanged lard advanced to
SIS. Cd bacon s6s. 9di beef steady; pork 71si
turpentine advanced to as; petroleum advanced
to Il. %, sugar steady 24s; rosin 6s. Cd for
common; lis, for medium.
ANTWERP, 6p. m. Petroleum stronger; stand.
ard white 43 francs.