Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-09

despotism implies slavery ana Amo''
cans arc not and never will bo slaves
The citizens Of this republic owe allegi
ancs 10 themselves only, end TO their owl
government, az made BY themselves, ans
not to tyrants attempting illegally TO rnl'
over them. Piftsburg Post
From Warrington.
WASHINGTON, April 8.-Messrs: Bod
gett and Parrot, Of the Georgia Conyeu
ton, who were appointed to proceed e
Washington 10 intsrcede In behalf o.
some 500 Georgisns who are under po'
litical disabilities, have published
letter, in which they inform their con
stitueuts that everything depends upon
the coming election in their State. They
say that il the Constitution Is adopted,
and reconstructed State officers elected
from true and loyal men, then the home
stead and relief measures are safe.
In the Senate this afternoon, Wilson,
from the Committee on Military Affairs,
reported with an amendment to the
House bill passed March 10, 1868, to con
tinue the Freedmen's Bureau. The
amendment consists Of an additioal sec
ton, by which the Commissioner is en-
powered to sell for cash, or by Install
ments with ample security, the school,
houses and other buildings constructed
by the Bureau for refugees aud freedmen
to the associations, corporations or trus-
tees, who now use them for purposes OF
education or relief of their wants, under
suitable guarantees that the purposes for
which said buildings were constructed,
shall be observed; and it further pro-
yides that the funds derived thereirom
shall be returned to the Bureau of APP
preparations, and accounted for to the
Treasurer Of the United States.
Judge Curtis, who will open for the
defense tomorrow, in the impeachment
case, will speak only from notes, not
having written bis remarks in advance
Of their delivery. There was, to-day, a
greater demand for tickets of admission
to the Senate than on any previous day
since the trial began. Some members of
Congress have promised or given orders
for these tickets for weeks to come.
An officer has official information that
three hundred and ninety farms, COM
prising nearly thirty-two thousand acres,
have been added to the productive area
of Florida under the Homestead act of
June, 1866.
New York, April ga Washington
special says the bill in relation to jurors,
before the Senate to-day, will allow the
court, in the cases Of Surratt aud Jeffer-
son Davis, to summon jurors from any
State in the Union.
The impeachment managers to-day
considered some evidence, not offered,
concerning the Presidents intention of
defeating the Tenure.of Office bill, but no
decision was made. Another meeting
will be held tomorrow.
Special to the Louisville Courier.l
WASHINGTON, April Michigan has
repudiated negro suffrage, but the Sem
ate voted to-day to fasten it on the help
less people Of this District; and not only
that, but negroes are not to be excluded
from Office.
Reverdy johnson, abiding to few
negroes who had been admitted to the
galleries during the impeachment,
twitted Sumner for not distributing
tickets to them Sumner did not reply.
Negro equality is not popular with SOL
diers. A few days ago one Tucker ad-
dressed the negroes about Warrenton,
advising them not to work for any one
without they were admitted to the family
circle and otherwise recognized as
equals. The soldiers there became so in.
censed that they made an assault on him,
and the officers of that post had to escort
him to the depot, to save him from the
soldiers. Citizens took no
part in the difficulty.
The result of his teachings is the ne
groes have left their employers, and are
living on the Bureau. The lessee of the
White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, lost
Fifty freedmen, employed at good wages,
as he refuses to comply with their de-
msnds, as instigated by Tucker.
The Conservative Army and Navy
Union here are arranging for National
which will be held in May
or June, when they nominate ticket for
President and Vice President, which will
the conservative and patriotic
ideas of the soldiers as well as citizens,
or they may recommend some person to
the Democratic National Convention as
their choice.
1t does not necessarily follow because
it is soldiers convention that they
will express preference for military
men, as their sole object is to promote
the success of the Democratic and Con-
servative cause.
Hauxhurst, mean white man, and
DIR. Bayne, a negro, of the Virginia Con-
vention, are here urging Grant to revoke
the action of General Scho6eld in re-
moving Governor Pierpont Grant re-
fused to interfere. Properly speaking,
Pierpont was not removed, as his term
of office had expired. He was not
eligible; and, moreover, he was inef'
fcient.
The latest phase In the Gen. Morgan's
(Ohio) case is that the Committee on
Elections refused him access to the ma
jority report against him, after having
profered that courtesy, for they deny it
is right. This 10 heaping insult on the
injuries Gen. Morgan has received at
their hands.
The Senate has passed the Washington
City charter, which establishes the equal
ity Of negroes with the whites, and takes
away from the Mayor the power to APP
point subordinates. The object is to
place the moneys Of the corporation in
the hands Of the Republican Council for
partisan purposes.
For the first time for years the priv.
lege of member Of Congress was
pleaded in our courts to-day in case Of
debt. Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island,
pleaded his privilege as Senator against
his late gardener, Vim. McKenna, who
wanted TO bring an action for q small
debt Under the privilege, no member
can be sued here, or while coming or re-
turning to his home.
A private dispatch from Hartford,
Connecticut aava that II is highly prO-