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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16
Alaska.

Of the S7,2OO000 in gold voted for
Alaska, the amount, it is now reported,
Russia actually got was $5,000,000 in
go!d-about one million pounds sterling.
This leaves $4,000, 900 to be accounted
for. But with regard to the outside ring,
the third house-the press, editors and
correspondents-it is reported that above
$500, 900 in greenbacks ives spent among
them. Mr.. Riggs, banker here, is said
to have obtained from the Secretary of
the Treasury, just at the close of the de-
bates, etc., which terminated by the pur-
chase of Alaska, loan of the amount
just specified. That loan was (if it had
any real existence) J. for obvious reasons,
never made public. Immediately on the
receipt by Mr. Riggs, newspaper men,
and others known as lobbyists, were the
owners of drafts of various amounts on
the Treasurer of the United States, which
it is declared Gen. Spinner's books will
show were cashed.
Among the sums specified in these re-
ports are such items as New York 1rib-
une, $25, 900; manager Of its Washington
bureau, $4,000; publisher of Washington
Chronicle, SIS, 900. The correspondents
of the Times, World, Boston Journal
Philadelphia Press, Chicago Tribune,
Boston AdVerfiser, EreRing Post, and
Others, are all set down as having been
paid various sums each, from $2500 up
ward. Some Of them are suxiously
inquiring what has become of the money,
as it has never been paid to them. The
daughters Of q member from Ohio got
SIC, 900 each, but this, il is affirmed, was
Immediately sent back. Robert J. Walker
got S25, 900 in gold The certificates for
this amount we're, believe, stolen from
him in Boston or New York. He SAYS it
vas professional retainer from the Rus
sian Government. he appears also TO
have been acting professionally for his
own Government, as some part OF the
Riggs $500, 900 appears to have passed
iato his hands.
The New York Tribune condenses the
above from the Worcester Spy, and de-
MES.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16
Lawyer R.mit. HI. Own Fine.

Speaking 10 o friend the other day
about the recent decease Of Hon. w. l.
Harris, at Memphis, he told us circum-
stance in the professional history OF that
distinguished gentleman, which will do
10 repeat. After retiring from the Su-
preme Court Of Mississippi, Judge Har-
ris settled at Columbus, and engaged IN
the practice Of his profession. One day
while employed in the trial Of cause
before one of the courts in that place,
Judge Harris and another attorney got
into an excited dispute about some
point of law or evidence, in the course
Of which the Judge for a moment
forgot himself (as the coolest-headed
lawyers viii sometimes do) and
made an indiscreet remark to the attor-
ney on the Aher side. This the presid-
ing judge took occasion TO condemn as
in contempt Of court, and ordered the
clerk o enter a fine of $40 against Judge
Harris. In day or two afterward,
while argument was being made in the
same court on another cause in which
Judge Harris was not Interested, the
Judge of the court was required to vacate
his seat temporarily, in order to attend
political meeting in another part of the
courthouse, and politely requested
Judge Harris to preside during his
absence. Always disposed to oblige,
the distinguished attorney readily
consented, and occupied the vacated
chair. As soon as the regular judge
had withdrawn from the courtroom,
the newly installed dignitary asked the
lawyer who was speaking at the time to
suspend his remarks for moment, and !,
turning to the clerk, asked that officer If
he had entered fine of ten dollars
against W. L. Harris for contempt of
court. The clerk answered in the affirm
ative. =" Well, then" said Judge Harris,
"let the fine be remitted and the record
be erased" To the lawyer who had been
interrupted, he said, proceed with the
Argument, sir" But itwas some minutes
before the lawyer was able to "reunite
the unrsveled thread of his discourse"
for the bar, jury, and spectators gave
audible vent to the amusement furnished
BY this pleasant little affair at the ex.
pense of the digni6ed old Judge who had
unsuspectingly placed the lawyer be had
fined in a position to make himself clear
of the books. .-Nashpils Union and
american.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16
Hasty differences.

In a leclua on Street Life in Europe,
Wendell Phillips gave happy ilIustra-
ton of the danger Of drawing differences
rs to the customs Of a people from the
occurrences 10 the streets. Mr.. Thack-
cray, in wandering through Ireland, was
struck with the constant repetition Of the
letters G. p. o. over the dOors- On in-
curing the meaning Of these symbols,
be was told that they stood for God Pre-
serve 0'Coupell, and thereupon inserted
the circumstances in his manuscript notes,
as q proof Of the fidelity and love Of the
Irish toward their leader. Fortunately,
Thackersy's notes came under the super
vision Of an Irish proof-resder, who did
not allow the signs Of the General Post
Once TO Be made use Of as the founda-
ton for comments which would have
been suprenely ridis1louG
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16
Death Of Bsrrysr, the Great French Lawyer.

Pierre Antoine Berger, whose death
is announced, has long held the distin-
guished position Of first advocate at the
French bar. He was born January 4,
1880 SURPRISING bis own desire to be-
come priest, he obeyed his fathers wish
and gave himself to the study Of law. he
was ever an sdherent of the Bourbons,
and in 1914 was obliged TO escape from
Paris to Nantes on account of having pro-
claimed the downfall of Bonspsrte. he,
however, was not an extremist, and at the
restoration exerted hmselft to secure mod
Grafton. He aided his father in the de-
fense of Marshal Ney, and alone secured
the acquittal of Csmbronne, and the par
don, after conviction, of Debelle. Ia
1880 he vas chosen deputy from the
Department of Haute Loire, and was
conspicuous in the debates preceding the
revolution Of July. He was the acknowl-
edged leading orator of the Assembly
till the fall of Louis PHILIPPE After
ward, in the Constituent and Legislative
assemblies, he maintained that France
did not want republican institutions.
BE opposed Louis Napoleon, and, after
his assumption of the crows, denounced
him as a usurper and retired from
politics, devoting himself to the practice
of law. To 1885 he was elected q
member Of the Academy His inaugural
was so obnoxious to the Emperor, on sc-
count of certain illusions to the degra-
dstion of the lower empire, that its sup
preston was ordered, bat this order was
revoked in twenty-four hours. With NJ.
Theirs and other monarchists, in 1863,
he acknowledged the Emperor's govern
ment and took the oath of allegiance.
He was elected to the Corps Legislstif,
and has been leader Of the small but
influential minority which has psrsis-
ieutly opposed the Nspoleonic idea.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16
Main Street.
BLANKETS.
BLANKETS.
BLANKETS.
BLANKETS.
LibsrIan Slavery and Polyg.my.


On the 18th ult., we hoped that some
ipformation might be vouchsafed us as
TO whether we were correct Ia assuming
the following state Of Affairs under the
negro government Of Liberia to be the
fact:
~. That slavery exists in Liberia.
2. That polygamy exists in Liberia.
8 That no white man is, under any cir
cumstances, allowed 10 vote in Liberia.
A. That no white man is allowed TO bold
land in Liberia for purposes of trade or
private enjoyment. That no negro 10
allowed to vote in Liberia, save under
educational and property qualifications"
In the Tribune Of the 18th instant
appears the subjoined:
Ex-President Roberts, Of Liberia,
now in this country soliciting aid for the
Liberian College, of which he is
President, states that that republic has
made coDquests Of the interior tribes
until it now has q population of GOO, 900
souls, Of whom only about 5000 are
emigrant negroes from America. II is a
singular and atrocious fact, now coming
to the knowledge Of the public, that this
republic, founded as an asylum of free
dom for emancipatsd slaves, has per-
mitted the continuance of slavery among
the interior tribes which 1t has
conquered on very extensive scale.
President Roberts is quoted as admitting
that the wealth of the interior chiefs,
like that of the savage tribes Of Africa,
is measured by their number Of wives
and slaves. Efficient steps should be
taken to rescue Liberia from this lapse
into sIaveholding province, and il will
be well for those who are solicited In the
name Of freedom and humanity to con-
tribute TO Liberian College to inquire
whether the gratuitous education OF the
sons of these slaveholding chiefs may
not iuure to the growth of slavery rather
than of freedom"
1t is here seen that slavery and polyg-
amy, those twin relics Of barbarism,
exist raukly in this negro republic
republic started under tina fairest auspi-
ces, upheld by Caucasian sympathy, and
yet reduced, ia not quite one generation,
back into savagery, from the inability OF
the negro to maintain any government
outside of sensuality aud force. Efi.
cient steps," whines the Tribune, should
be taken TO rescue Liberia from this
lapse into a slavehoding province"
Bah Does the Tribune not know
that it and its co-thinkers, when
they had charge of this republic,
recognized these polygamous, slavehold-
ing, barbarous blacks as an independent
sovereignty, and as such made treaty
with them; and how, then, does it pur-
pose to intermeddle with their domestic
concerns? The negro has but fallen to
his level. The wind has been let cut of
the man and brother, and he appears in
bis natural narrowness as mauy-coneu-
bined, many shaved savage. Why, then,
does the Tribune want our ships aud
soldiers sent to Senegsmbia to lift him
out of himself2 The thing is an infrsc-
ton of the law Of nature to begin with.
1t is filibustering expedition that the
Tribune meditates, and it is the duty of
the authorities to prevent the criminal
intent bodyiug itself forth in action
Neo York World.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16

Of the amount which the Legislature
has cost the people, nearly 100000 was
q bonus which the members of that body
voted themselves, by computing their
pay on gold basis, and requiring the
controller to pay them the difference
between gold and greenbacks. This was
an outrageous imposition upon the tax
payers, who are compelled to receive
greenbacks at par for everything they
NAV have to sell. The laborer has to
take his pay in greenbacks at par, but
members of the Legislature-although
the constitution fixes their salary at four
dollars per day, and Congress makes
greenbacks a legal tender--actually
draw from the tres sury over five dollars
per day. Excluding this bonus which
the members voted themselves, the
expenses of the Legislature have
been fully 100000 more than
the necessities of the State re-
uuired. The Legislature should not, in
any event, have cost the State more than
a quarter of million of dollars during
the entire period of the Brownlow ad-
ministration. The public printing it
will be seen, is an enormous item, fully
double what should have been expended.
Look at what the penitentiary has cost
the State under the Brownlow rule. Be
fore the war it was nearly, or quite, q
self-sustaining institution. Under the
Brownlow administration it has cost the
State nearly q quarter OF million dol
lars, and the taxpayers have had to foot
this enormous bill. The registration of
voters in 1866 cost $3140, and this should
have sufficed with little addition to il, but
in order to keep the State under Radical
rule, an additional $S9. 900 has been ex-
pended. This expenditure was purely
for the benefit Of the Radical party.
Another expenditure which has been tor
the benefit of members Of the Radical
party, is the $50, ,404 paid to the Metro
politan police. The citizens Of Nash
Vile, Memphis and Chattanooga were
competent to choose their own police
and pay for the services Of the same, yet
in order to make places for Radicals, the
taxpayers Of the State have had to foot
a bill Of over $65,000. The Governors
staff, in a time Of profound peace, has
cost the State nearly $4,000. But the
browning infamy in these useless ex-
nenditures is The $4,000 thrown
sway on the "loyal militia" which
was organized for no other pur-
pose than TO harass aud annoy the
people aud aid in carrying the elee-
ton of last year. The impeachment OF
Judge Frazier is another item IN the ex-
penditures for political purposes. In
the items We have enumerated there u
an unnecessary aud useless expenditure
Of fully 81 900, 900. which has been IN
CURED for no other purpose than 70 sub
serve the political interests Of the ksdi-
cal party. Other expenditures have
been made upon an equally reckless
scale. fss=s fscts aud fgarss VII Esva
the taxpayers Of 1ennessss some idea
Of whst Il costs them 10 sustain Radical
rule. Yet The great body Of the men
ubo furnish this enormous anounf Of
money 70 keep Radicals 10 e, cfes, are
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16

The Rebel Democracy Of Arkansas
are banding together 70 prevent the
arrest, By the State militia, Of the assas-
sins whose scores Of murders during the
month Of November spread reign Of
terror throughout that State Gen
Upham, Ia charge Of the militia, threat
sSs. X sssscksi. 70 shoot az bis Prisoa-
ers aud burn the town. We would have
felt more cou6dsnce that he would hrht
veil II he 80 rot thrsatsaed cruelty.
Crusl mes are seldom brave-E y
Tribuae
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16


A good story is told of reverend
gentleman to whom farmer complained
that ministers esrned money much easier
than he did.
Now" said the farmer, " when you
are called upon to marry couple, you
never expect less sum than three dol
lars, and you sometimes get ten; this
for only few minutes service"
"Poohl" replied the doctor,
would agree to give you half my next
marriage fee for bushel Of potatoes. "
VERY WE'LL" said the farmer, "Pll
take your offer aud send you the pots-
toes."
A few days afterward the clergyman
was called on to splice q loving couple
at D., place about four miles from
where be lived.
When the ceremony was over, the
BRIDEGROOM said to the worthy minister;
"Well, pArson, spose must fork over
something for your trouble, What say
you to taking one Of ny terrier pups :
The best breed. | tell you, in the eoun-
try. shocking nice to have IN the barn.
Worth foil Eve dollars, and ! suppose g
figure two would do fsr the splice, eh =
The doctor took the pup With joy.
The joke vas too good be FASTENED 10
re farmer, saying:
Nov, friend, here y ny fee; how
nhall We divide itf
Tks farmer relished The joke 90 veil
that be increased he potatoes 70 half
doasn bushels.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16
What It Costs.

The report Of Controller Blackburn to
the Legislature shows that the receipts
into the State Treasury, from the begin
ming of the Brownlow Administrations to
the 30th of September. 1868, have
amounted to Sc, 1920 7s, Of which
there was received from railroads, for
interest on the bonds loaned to them,
50, ,O79, ,247 SO, so that over $4,000,000
has been drawn from the people in the
shape of taxes in period of three and
q half years. All but $4,000 of this
large amount has been expended, and
$58,l42 Of that has been sunk in the
Tennessee National Bank at Memphis.
The reader is, no doubt, curious to learn
how so much money could be expended.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16
Fight Extraordinary.
"A ph;ladaInhia press.


Last evening a fight occurred in which
"a man, woman, and two dogs were
singularly mixed up. Lieut.. Goldey had
his attention attracted by the cries OF a
boy, who complained that his legs had
been Injured by fall. Two women
stopped and expressed sympathy with
the boy, and while they and the Lieuten-
ant were endeavoring to alleviate his con-
dition two dogs got to fighting. One dog
ran around behind one of the women,
and the other dog pitched at his antago-
mist, taking the shortest course, under
the dress of the woman.
The result was, the last mentioned dog
forced his head through the hoops worn
by the woman, and, in this position,
seized the other dog. As the dog who
was fastened in the hoops plunged for.
ward, away went the woman with him,
and as be attempted to pull the other dog
either way the woman had to come along.
The woman screamed terri6cally, and
her companion did likewise. A crowd
assembled, and the woman, whose skirts
we're entangled by the dog, cried Justify
that she was being eaten up. Lieuten-
anL uOlucJ Chdo6u dUOub buC wOu1o ou uu
til he obtained hold of the dog by the
hind legs, and he pulled him with ell his
strength, but the frame of the hoops had
curled tightly around the dogs neck.
Lieutenant Goldey now reached his hand
toward the dogs head, and the animal
BECAME infuriated, the consequence being
that dog, man and woman rolled on the
pavement in heterogeneous mass, the
other dog all the time jumping around to
seize the enemy. The Lieutenant finally
gave terrific jerk at the hoops, which
parted at the waist, aud the dog started
of, dragging the woman short distance,
when she became disengsged from them
and the dog went off with the skirt, his
head still in chancery. The woman de-
manded new skirt from the Lieutenant,
in which she was backed by her friend,
whereupon the Lieutenant, having be-
come exhausted at the dog fight, beat
retreat, be not desiring to have a woman
fight
A rool s,orv IL told of a rovarand
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-16

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LOsT-CAUTION.

r osr IN SILVER CITY. OR VICINITY,
| an SATURDAY night, Feb. 9, snaL oiesk
man mersndum book, containing o NOTE OF
HAND. drawn BY Joseph Taylor, boiler msssr ma 81,
in favor Of Henry Mitchell, or bis order, ioI .ss
sum Of Two hundred Dollars, pay aole ~ ..y
DAYS from ds,e. with two per cent inse,es. p,
month. The public are cautioned esNns. ~,
gotiating for the samc. a. Il 10 not endorsed "
me. II the finder viii return the same 70 me-
be will be suitably rewarded.
HENRY MITCHELL.
At Casper HAupfs. Sierra Nevada Hotel. si'
yer City.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
HON COP A. III Y

rs THE ONLY TRUE SYSTEM OF MED.
i Icine, based upon the laws of nature. Seven
ty.hve yearsof experience have proved that one
Homeopathy cures all durable diseases psrma.
nently, which have resisted the skill OF the best
practitioners Of any Of the old medical system,
for years.
Homeopathy aims to oeradicated diseases entirely
10 cure sure and easy, without bleeding, blister.
Ing. cauterizlng or drugglng, to prolong LIE and
lessen the number Of sick days.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-02-15
sU r a E r Y.

II is one Of the greatest triumphs Of Homo.
opathy 10 dispense with the operation OF Ampp.
tatIon and Excelsior, In more than two.thlrds OF
the cases, by tho radical euro Of the diseased
parts, which Allopathy would have consigned to
the knife.
Fractures and serious wounds are healed In
less time, and with less pain, than under any
other mode Of treatment.
Homnopathyi fulilling mission whose end
is the overthrow Of all other modes or cure, and
the establishment Of Its own complete and per.
IN aneut rule.
HOMEOPATHY AND LrTE AssuKANcE.. The
Directors Of London Life Assurance once
the General Provident- nt itsrecent meeting
hnye placed on record their opinion 'tnat per.
sons treated by the Homeopathy system ENJOY
moro robust health. are less frequently attacked
by disease, aud when attacked recover more
rapidly than those treated by any other system;
that With respect to the more fatal classes OF dis.
ease tho mortality under Homeopathy ii small IN
comparison with that OF Allopathy; that there
are diseases not durable at all under the ialter
system, which are perfectly curable under the
former; finally, that the medicines preserioea W
Hom9ophsthlsts do not injurs tho constitution
whereas those employed BY Ailopatns mol un
freouently entail the most serious. and In many
instances, fatal consequences" Tho Directors
further propose TO summon q meeting OF the
,hareholderi TO lay before them the facts tney
haye collected, and tho decision at which they
haye arrived, namely: ITO open special Sec
tIon for persons treated by Homeopathic .ys.
lem, at lower rate Of premium than tnst
charged on other llveL"-London (Eng) %
serpr. ,n,x
Virginia, Jan. 81. 1868. )S3l'u
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Mnsonic Notice
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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-04-18
The Connecticut Election.

The Democrats elected their candidate
for Governor in Connecticut at the re-
cent election by an increased majority,
hut the Republicans console themselves
by the fact that they have a majority in
both houses of the Legislature. This
does not give them any reason to hope
in the Presidential election. In Con
necticut population does not elect Repre-
seutatives but to,cns do. Each town in
the State is entitled to 60 Representa-
tives. A small town of 200 voters has
two Representatives, while larger towns
with 10000 voters have two, and no
more. The Republicans carry majority
Of the smaller towns, and TPonssuently
have the Legislature, in opi, mon
popular voice Of the State 49, n ING
consequence Of this anti Republieres
and anti Democratic system Of electing
Representatives that they are now in the
majority in the Legislature.