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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

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gencer OF thu l6ths
In justification Of the President, We
are at liberty TO state the following addi-
tional circumstances, from which our
readers will draw their own conclusions.
Sometime after the appointment OF Gen.
Grant as Secretary Of War dd interim,
he had conversation with the President
upon the subject Of the probability Of
the refusal Of the Senate to recognize
the suspension of Mr.. stanton, when
General Grant stated that in such event
he might not wish to identify himself
with either party IN the controversy but
added, in effect: II shall IN that event
either hand you my resignation as
Acting Secretary, or let manaamss ps
issued against me 10 surrender the once.
This conversation was renewea from
time to time, and, on last osturday,
when Senator Howards report from 'ne
Senate Committee on mihtary Anairs ~
favor OF Stanton was unoer discuss,pn,
General Grant was poin'ed,y asAsu ~
the President II ne mao cnangeu nis
mind in reference TO the course ne wou.u
pursue 1t the. Senate snoui1 re'use W
make Stantons suspension nna', mngn
he reiterated .ue promu's' pSS;'S ~
made, that he wouid eitner manu-
resignation as Secretary of War dd
interim early enough for the President
~. ...oa,sor or taka any
other action he might deem requisite, or
allow a mandamus to be served upon
him for the surrender of the Office; ad-
ding promise to the President that he
sbonld hear from him on the subject on
Monday.
Monday passed without the promised
communication. On Monday evening,
after il was known that the Senate had
passed Towards resolution refusing to
recognize the suspension of Stanton as
Secretary ofWar, Gen. Grant was present
at the reception ofthe Decentralization,
where he greeted the President, but mem
toned nothing of any. change IN the de-
termination previously declared. Inc
President heard nothing whatever from
General Grant upon the SUBJECT until
twelve o'clock Tuesday, two hours AFTER
Mr.. Stanton had taken possession OF tne
War Office, when the following commu-
nication was delivered TO MN oy MAJOR
Comestock, one OF ieneral Grants stan
officers:
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES oE an oIsss
NJ. p.,,n.w ans,ow Inbn.on president Of
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

Mr.. WILLIAMS (Radical), of Scotland
county, offered in the Missouri Senate
resolution offering to repeal the act OF
last winter submitting to a vote Of the
people an amendment to the new con-
sttution striking out the word white
in the article on suffrage. Mr.. Williams
stated that if the Radical party wanted
to carry his county they would have to
repeal the legislative proposition for a
vote. They could not carry it with SUCH
a measure.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

A New YORK correspondent writes:
"This store to lei" offices to let, lofts
to let notices like these are becoming
very numerous down town, and especially
on Broadway. do not remember ever
seeing so many vacant stores so early in
the season. Some merchants say the
signs are improving, but the majority
take a blue view of the future. Retail
dealers offer extraordinary inducements
to buyers, but most of the stores look
dull and deserted.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

The Cincinnati Commercial (Radi-
cal) furnishes the dominant party in
Congress this cold comfort:
The want Of wisdom in the Republi-
can party management has already re-
vived the Democratic party, and 1t
looms up formidable in its prestige and
its discipline. The majority Of the peo-
pie would prefer not 10 trust it with
power again. But Congress is cutting
down that majority. Doubtless it would
be an evil of great magnitude to place
the administration in Democratic hands.
Let Congress take care that the people
are not given ample reason 70 make a
choice Of evils, for the popular intelli'
geBce is not always equal to choosing
the least
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

Mn. DroKEEs, while read;ng;n Boston,
received note, says the Commonwealth,
from a lady in Charlestown--a great ad-
mirer of his writings-who, being par
alyzed in her limbs, SO that she was un
able to walk, asked that the doors of the
Temple might be opened to her earlier
than the usual hour, that she might be
lifted into the hall unobserved by other
attendants upon the readings. Mr..
Dickens sympathizingly and gratefully
acknowledged the note, gave the requi-
site order for the lady's accommodation
and claimed the honor of presenting her,
besides, with complimentary tickets of
admission.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
BY TELEGRAPH.
Latest to Noon To-day.
NEW YORK.
Gold and Cotton Reports.

Special to the PUBLIC LEDoFR.l
NEW YoRK, January 2l-l2 M.-Gold
opened at 1879; at lO:45 was 1885,, and is
now 1879.
Cotton dull and nominal; quotations
nominally unchanged.
Exchange steady,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21


OLD Joe. Brown, Of Georgia, has gone
with Alcorn, of Mississippi, about half
and half into the Radical chute. Both
professed to be first rate rebels in the
early part of the war, advocated seces-
sion, and wanted to go little ahead of
the foremost. But, not being quite so
highly esteemed for talents or worth by
their Southern associates, as they es-
teemed themselves, and failing to get the
most prominent military offices to
which they aspired, both soon began to
represent the disaffected portion OF the
people and became obstacles to the sue
cess of the effort for independence which
they had been as prominent in the work
of initiating as it was practicable they
should be. Gov. Brown will be a snag
in any party with which he becomes
affiliate. He will never consent to any
thing which be cannot set up the pre-
tence Of originating. The Radicals are
welcome 10 him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

A NEWSPAPER correspondent, it APP
pears, Jared badly at the battle of Men
tana. He first fell into the hands of the
Garibaldians, who took his carriage to
transport their wounded. Next, as he
was sitting alongside his baggage by the
side of the road, the Papal troops came
along, shot him through the hand and
carried him off. They were overtaken
by the Garibaldians, who captured the
correspondent and took him back to
Montana. There the French came in
the next day and sent him off TO Rome,
where he was put in a hospital. His let
ters will certainly suffer from no lack Of
material"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

TEE Cincinnati Times thus rebukes its
political friends in Congress for dallying
under the influence of the bankers and
bondholders:
Congress takes it coolly," as if mer-
chants were not breaking, Insurers not
fattening, nor laborers starving. The
House seems to have but little regard for
the condition of things, and the grave
seniors Of the Senate keep up the dignity
Of procrastination, as il they considered
their importance increased and their
glory enhanced BY the Eastern bankers
that surround them. While they waste
tine in receiving the batteries Of the
selfish, and By much speaking, the people
remain in doubt, perplexity and gloom.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

THERE is a threatened conflict in Cali
fornia between the whites and Chinese,
there not being enough work for both.
John underworks the whites, and the lat
ter pitches into the Cinnamon right
merriiy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

CAssrus NJ. CLAY, our Minister 10 Rus
sia, creates a sensation periodically in
St. Petersburg by appearing one day with
very white (naiuraD hair, and the next
day with jet black dyed locks. Then
for few weeks be varies in hirs1te hue
from blue-bsack 70 delicate pea-green-
Mr. Clay is the Tiddlebat TitnOuse Of
diplomatists
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

The Eutaw (Als-) Whig has cards
from several persons who have bsen act
ing with the Leagues" formally with
drawiag and denouncing the whole Re-
ical programme.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
PITTSBURG.

PIrTsBURG, January 2l.-The river is
falling, with three feet two inches in the
chasnel. There are seven inches of
snow on the ground. Thermometer, 35'.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
FOREIGN.

LIVERPOOL, January 2l.-Cotton nom
inally unchanged; uplands, I'D; Or
leans, Sd; sales, 5000 bales.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

The latest bulletin from Jenkinsis that
Alexander T. Stewards wardrobe does
not cost him three hundred dollars year.
The truth is, q man with 100000 Of
income cannot afferd to dress well.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

The Empress Eugenis isreported 70 be
the mostl graceful smoker in Paris.
when Joks Napoleon scOlds, Eugene
pufFs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

GEORGIA as well as Tennessee is
blessed with a right considerable number
of loyal" men. For instance, there is
one Aaron Alporia Bradley, mulatto
delegate to the black and tan convention,
who is a maryelous proper orator and a
vigorously vociferous brayer. Like
many of the same sort here, he is gifted
with slight of hand, is gay lothario, can
lie with prodigious volubility, and is
somewhat known in court circles such
as that in this city over which William
Hunter presides by appointment of Mr.
Brownlow. He was recently sentenced
to fine of 500 for drawing his pistol
on the editor of the Savannah Repub-
licdR. His headquarters for two years
we're at Sing Sing prison in consequence
of his having consummated the betrayal
Of mulatto girl under the most ag-
grsvated circumstances" Being par.
ticular friend Of Charles Sumner, he wa,
admitted to practice law in the Supreme
Court on his motion, the chief justice
Chase admitting him, not because he
had any case in that court, but as an
irreversible guarantee" The records
of the Brooklyn City criminal court are
full of facts showing his capacity fol
getting there by committing various
crimes, though be could not otherwise
succeed in gaining admission to the bar
in any but the Supreme Court He wal
recently sent to Jail by the Mayor
Court at Savannah for q contempt com
misied while be was before it on trial
but on making an apology was set a
large, attention being more particularly
called to him from this fact What I
precious free government We have wher
such men rule. There never was
party on this continent before the radi
cal came into power which would mol
have been prompt 10 expel such crea'
tnres from all places Of public RESPONSE
bility and control II was a very seusi
bic suggestion that the best way 10 keel
thieves out Of Office was not 10 elect them
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
PROFESSOR vILLEHULIN

MOULD RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE
the 18th of january. open, at Lee Academy. o
perma n emit school for instruction in the French
Language. For the present, every Saturday.
class. Ali who feel interested in the same are
cordially invited to meet him at this instiu-
ton on that day. The classes will be arr .nged
to suit applicants. and the terms in accordance
with the times. 10y
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

OFFICERS,
w. b. GREENLAW, President
JAS. ELDER, Vice-President.
s. Z. READ, Secretary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
THE WAY OF THETIDE.

There can no lon ger be any doubt as
10 how the tide is running on the bond
question. At a republican county con-
vention at indianapolis, Indiana, on the
llth inst, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, Equal and exact justice
should be the rule of action for public as
well as for private debtors in dealing
with their creditors; therefore, be it
Resolred, That the bonds and other
obligations of the General Government
which do not expressly stipulate for pay
ment in coin on their face should be paid
in legal money; and that our delegates
to the State convention be instructed to
vote for resolution in the State plat
form embodying this proposition.
When the democratic thunder is 30
loud that the republicans are driven to
steal it, there is lightning and the over
towering thunderbolt in the cloud. The
New York Tribune, with majority Of
the radical republican papers, have de-
nounced the proposition to pay the
bonds in greenbacks as nothing less than
reputation of the national obligations.
The payment in coin is the declared
policy of the radical party. But the
people are moving and the handwriting
is on the wall. The republican party is
staggering, shifting its positions, di.
viding and changing its principles of ac-
ton. 1t has no one great principle and
patriotic issue to move the masses. Its
usurpations have outraged the sense Of
the country, and it is going under as
fast as possible. The Democratic party,
anchored on the Constitution, repudiates
indeed. But it repudiates paying the
soldiers of the army and the people at
large in greenbscks, and at the same
time, with great national debt and a
depleted treasury, paying the bondhold-
ers in gold three times as much as they
paid for the bonds, when the contract
was to pay them in currency alone.
They repudiate unjust claims and not
just ones; and the republican taxpayers
of Indianapolis have said that Touch
ing this matter of the payment of the
fve-twenties in treasury notes, we be-
lieve the copperheads are right"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
For President,
GENERAL eSEEyBAcKs-
For ice-PresidenL
crwrpar LOW TaxEs.

II seems that We are likely to have up
n man With q military title in General
Ulysses S. Grant aliss general Hiram
IT. Grant (for bis name is in dou bt), and
we see no reason why the Democrats
nav not as well have Generals as any
kody else. We shall be satisfied with
taat ticket, as the nutmeg men said
when they made the bible their law
until We can end better.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

TIE Illinois State Register has
brought out the last and real peoples
ticket for President and Vice-President
il is the ticket destined to win in the
West 1t will be the ticket Of the Demo-
cratic party, and no other will be able
70 stand against it:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
CAPITAL STOCK, 100000.
TAKE FIRE AND MARINE RISKS.
DIRECTORS :

DIRECTORS:
w. B. GREENLAw. N. S. BRUCE.
q. w. COVER. CHARLES JOKES,
JAMES ELDER, WIN. FARRlNGIoN
JOHN 0VERT0N, JR.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13
Old Thlngst

Give md old sohgs, those exquisite
bursts Of melony which thrilled the
Tyres of the inspired poets and min.
strels of long ago. Every note has
borne on tho air tale Of JOY and rap
tnre-of sorrow and sadness. They
tell Of days gone by, and time has Civ
en- them a voice that speaks to us of
those melodiesj may they be mino TO
hear till life shall have an end as /
"launched my boat" on the sea Of
eternity, may their echoes be waited
on my ear, TO cheer me on my passage
from earth TO heaven.
Give me old paths l have wandered
and culled the flowers of friendship 10
the days of " Auld Lang Syne," sweet
er, far, tho dells whose echoes have
answered 10 our voices, whose turf is
not stranger to our footsteps, and
whose rills have, in childbood's days,
reflected back .our forms, and tones of
our merry school.felIows, from whom
we have parted, and met no more in,
Tue OlO UOOhd We lOFCu pO HGil. MAY
the old paths be watercd with heavens
own duo, and be green forever in my
memory.
Give nls the old house, upon whose
stairs we seem to hear light footsteps,
and under whose porch merry laugh
seems to fhingle with the winds that
whistle through the old eims, beneath
whose branches lie the graves of those
who once filed the halls and made the
chambers ring with gIee.
And oh above alI, give me the old
friends-~hearts bound TO mine in liEe's
sunshiny hours, and link 80 strong
that all the storms Of earth might not
break it asunder; spirits copgenial
whose hearts through life have beat
in unison with their own. Oh, when
death shall still this heart, ] would
not ask for aught more sacred to hal.
low my dust than the tear OF an old
loved friend.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13
The Duties Of Young Men.

Attending church and the Bible
class are all very well for young
man, bat we believe it will take moro
than one year TO get into a position in
good society through this means alone.
The associations may help him. but
there is still a deep, valuable lesson
behind all thiSfor young men to learn
II a Young man is not society for him.
nelf, is not pleased and interested in
.he possession of u ticket to the Mer.
camille Library and Reading nooms,
and .cQmfortable room at his board
ing house, he will be of little use to
anything .but.the fast gayety Of fash
ion, and without a fortune he viii be
of no consequence whatever there.
With q fortune he does not need to
ask how to'get into such society, but
how to keep out Of it.
Ifa young man has thepatience and
self esteem, and the love of books and
culture, which makes his own self suf-
ficient society, he can afford to wait
his time. A coin passes for what il
is worth, and almission to society will
bo fruitless unless the young man has
that individuality, self-confdence, and
self-reliance which culture gives. A
young man has no business with So
ciety that Is not genteel, refined, and
educated, and be has no business in
such society unless ho is also refined.
educated, and genteel, or seeking stu
dioualy to be so. Let him set to work
anxionsly to educate himself~in the
useful arts, in the sciences and in the
fine arts if be please, and with the
time and patiece which this selfcul
ture requires, will come all the socie-
ty he will care for. Wait until you
are good for something to good socie
ty, and good society will demand you
soon enough. This is, moreover, the
secret of success in this country
American Antheneum.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13
Let Every Man Read This.

We have probably all Of us met
with instances in which a word heed
lessly spoken against the reputation Of
a female, has been mngni6ed by mali
cious minds until the cloud has be-
Came dark enough to overshadow her
whole existence. To those who are
accustomed, not necessarily from bad
motives, but from tboughuessness TO
speak light offemales, We recommend
these hints as worthy Of eonsidera-
ton Never use lady's namo ia
an improper place, at an improper
time, or in mixed company, Mover
make assertions that tou think are
untrue, or aIiusfons that you feel she
herself would blush 10 hear" Many
a good and worthy woman's ohatac-
ter has been forever ruined and heart
broken BY q lie, manufactured BY .
villain, and repeated whore Il should
rot have been, and IN the presence Of
those whose little judgment could not
deter them from circulating tbe foul
and fiendish report. Respect the name
Of a woman, for Jour mother s19 sis.
ter are woman; and - you would hayo
their fair nemo untarrisBod, And their
lives unsmbiltefed by 6landtr6rs' Bit
ing tongu6a, heed tbe III Jour own
words nay bring upon the mother, the
sister, Or ihs wife Of some fellow cros-
ture
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13
Tho Human BOdY.

When tie gastric juice has h mild,
bland, sweetish taste, il tpossesses the
power Of ,digesting the hardest food
that can be swallowed. II bus fiS IN
fpenee whatever Doth fbres Of the
living animal, but at the moment Of
death II begins to cat them away with
the power Of the strongest acids:
OF tie sixty-two primary elements
known in nature only eighteen are
found in the human body, and Of these,
seven are mctalic.' Iron is found in
tho blood phosphorus in the brain;
limestone in tie bile; lime in the
homes dust and ashes m al Not
only these eighteen human elemeats,
but the wb5le sixty-two of which the
universe is made have their essential
basis in the four si6stanees--oxygon
hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon-rep-
resenting the more familiar names of
fire, water, saItpetre, and charcoal.
And such is man, the lord Of eaFth--;
spark Of fre--a drop Of water--G
grain Of gunpowder--an atom Of char
coal.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13
Miscellaneous.
From the Boston Daily Adverti-or.
Progress OF American Chrome
LlthOgraphy.

PEOgEcSS Oh AulCElCbu OuEOuaO-
LlthOgraphy.
Mr.. Prang is rapidly increasing his
business and improving his beautiful
art. He has begun bus long-contem-
ed"Gallery ofAmerican Painters" "
In which no proposes to produce at
least one characteristic picture by
each of our eminent artists. lie has
already published several landscapes
BY Brieher, several groups ,of chick
ems, and the like by TAFT, several flow.
or and fruit pieces by Mrs. Lily NJ.
Spencer and Miss v Cranberry Of New
York, d couple Of genre pictures by
Niles of Boston, a series Of Ruggles s
q gems" in oil colors, besides great
variety Of illuminated texts and cards
by Miss Jennie Lee Of New jersey
and cartoons and Autographs BY Mr.
Homer and others.
He has now in active preparation
a A New England Winter Landscape"
by the late Mr.. Morveiller Of Maiden
4 figure piece, "Ths Barefooted Boy
bv Eastman johnson /; +" Easter Morn
ine.D . by Mrs. Theresa Hart, wife o.
James Hart, the landscape painter
two brilliant pictures Of children In
ire woods, nThe May Queen" and
q Tho Little Rogue" by Mr.. J. g
brown HThe Shipwreck Of Steer
forth, ? by Morafi q TheFriends," By
Grand; q The White Mountains Il
Octobof," by Mr.. George u Brown
q The Bay OF New York" by the samt
artist q Ths Falls Of the Semitic" !" by
Bierstadt; two fruit pieces, by 3: W
Fuller; eCheries and Basket" ty Mrs
Cranberry 7; and besides these be haI
4 number of othet oornposltiong o.
thg sassls Of distinguished New Yorl
uaihtosB. TAFT "a bard a work on BIZ
isvorito Subjects. We are NOT at 10
srty 70 name The paintings by for
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13

Every mag must patiently abido Sc liuS.
He must Eait Bos u llsIlsas idlehsss. not IN
useless past time, NOT n qaerulons detection
bptiu constant, steady ful6lling aud aecodR.
Plishing bis tssk, tha, when tbs oetaiion
comes be naI. be equal % n. ms talent Oh
success iS nOtblnE mora tbsf doike abal yo,7
can DO well, without .ihogphs Of .1aws. ~
Il eomes AZ All twin come heeauss n. d
gouEbtaftef Il is a vsry iudiscrsst and
trouhlsseug ambition which cares 90 mnch
about vhatthe world aays % us % bt N.
ways anxious about tho eject Of What rs A.
or say, 70 be always Shouting 70 hear tAo
ieehseTo Of bis eva roies. .--Lorlfiisv
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13

t~ " Amelia, for tIieg4-tgsi ~ Thy
command I'd tear this eternal hrnsa.
ment into a thousand fragments, I'd
gather tho stars one by one. ID they
tumble from the regions of stberiat
space and put them in my tto#ser's
pocket; I'd pluck tho sun--that orien-
tai god Of day, that travefses4the blue
arch of heaven in such majestic splen4
.dor--I'd tear him from the sky and
quonch its bright effulgenOe in the,
.fOuntRlp Of my eternal love for theew,
Amelia" Dohst Henry, i. would
be so very dark"
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13
A Scene al the Gate u Paradise.

A poor tailor, being releassd from a
troublesome world and. EEoiding wife
appeared at the gate Of Paradise. Pc
ter asked him if he hsd ever been 10
No, estsi said !hS h taIior, But i have besn'
married.
Oh, said Potter, that is ali the same.
The tailor had scarcely got in be-
fore a fat turtle eating alderman came
along putting and blowing.
Hollool you fellow, salf hs, open
that door, gg , s-E
Not SO fast, said Peter, have you ov-
er been to purgatory2 ,te3
No, said the alderman, but what's
that TO the purposeI You lot III that
poor half-sfarred tailor, and be has
been no moro TO pdrgatory than NY
self Fsaga a7sss7
But hs Eas Been riaFriSd, said Peter.
married. exclaimed the aldsrmanC
why, / havS 6ec9 married twice. sa
Then go back again said Peter,
Paradise is not the place for FOOLS. srf