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as they could, but experience had always
shown that dealers in money knew little
or nothing about relations OF money to
other occupations and interests The bear
ing ofall this was,i the legislators OF the
country had done their own work SO
badly how could they dare to assume the
mowers and duties Of the Executive also.
The social condition Of the country was
quite as bad as its financial condition.
There was less virtue and morality IN
American society than in any other civ
ilized society on the face of the earth.
Tho prevailing demoalization was fright
full. What mother could send her son
out into the world with any confdene
that he would be able to resist the tempt
ers that would surround him? What
husband could close his door? The
country was on the brink of precipice,
and, unless the people could be reused
from their apathy all was lost. He
had wished for and aided In the election
of Gen. Grant to the Presidency, be-
cause he believed he president Grant)
had not been contaminated by politi-
clans and had the capacity required to see
through and defeat their Vaccinations.
He had listened to the inaugural address
with intense interest, and been pleased
by the Presidents expression of his
purpose to be independent in the dis
charge of his official duties; but, when he
heard the passage asserting the sacred
ness of the public debt, he had gone
away disheartened and sorrOwfnl, be-
cause it had shown him that the cankel
that had possessed the American body
polite had got possession Of the Presi,
dent also. Still, he was not without
hope. He hoped the President would
yet discover the great error into which
his advisers had led him, and woult
turn away from this policy as from
4 rharnal hnuge TOD 1 .--t .'.
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Georgia Radicals is strategic
movement for the purpose of Sc
curing the remission of their State
to provisional government. They
probably hoped to make capital for
their scheme out of the rejection
of the amendment, by representing
it as the work of "unreconstracted
Rebels" That has already been
charged by Northern Radicals as
the cause of the defeat, but the
Nev Era has effectually pricked
that bubble. The following Is the
article from the Ne,o Era OF
March H. .li b. -.l.-t- q ..s-as-
The Senate on yesterday defeated the
adontion of the fifteenth constitutional
amendment The measure, proposed by
a Republican Congress and recommended
Inv a Republican President has been de-
feated and rejected by the Republicans
in the Georgia Legislature, who adhere
to Gov Bullock policy of unreconstruct,
ing the State . .'o.aL ..F #i.
In the House of Representatives, on
the final passage of the resolution adopt
ing the amendment, a majority of all
the Democrats present voted for its
adoption, while majority Of the Repub.
| licans voted against it, or refused to
vote. 1t was, therefore, passed in the
House by the Democrats. -.g. FT s.i
1t came up in the Senate on Wednes-
day, and was postponed indefinitely by
the casting vote of the Republican
President Of the Senate The following
Republicans voted to postpone indefi-
nitely: .EE .- chi. 70.
Messrs. Adkins, Bowers, Colman,
Griffin of the 9th, Harris, Higbee, Hun
gerford, Jones, MeWhorter, Sherman
Speer, Weleh and President COnley-l3
The Republicans voting against in
definite pOstpOnement Messrs. Smith
of the 9th, Jordan, Griffin of the 2lst
Corbett, BrutOn and BrOck-G.
Democrats voting for indefinite post
ponement: Mesrs. Burns, Gambler, Me-
Arthur, Nunnally and WoOten-5.
The following Democrats voted agains
indefinite postponement Messrs. Adams
Collier, Fain, Graham, Hinton, Lester
McCutehen, Moore, Nisbet, WellhOrr
| III. ....
The indefinite pOstponement was re-
considered yesterday morning, and the
resolution adopting the amendment put
upon its final passage and defeated.
The following Republicans voted FOL
the resolution: Messrs. Adkins, Burton
Griffin, Dist, Hungerford, Jordan, Mer
reIl, Smith, 9th, and Welch-S.
The Republicans voting "No" were
Messrs BOwes, COlman, Griffin, 9th, Har
ris, Sherman, Smith, Both, and Speer-C
The Republicans absent and dodginl
we're: Messrs Brock, Corbitt, Dickey
Higbee, Jones, McWhorter, Richardson
and Stringer-S.
| Democrats voting "Yes" were: Messrs
Collier, McCutchen, Nisbet, Welborn an,
Winp-2.
The Democrats voting "No" were
Messrs. Anderson, Burns, Chandler
Fain, Hinton, Lester, Macarthur, Moor
and Nunnaly-9. .-
SO the amendment was slaughtered i
the house of those who should have bee
its friends. 1t was defeated by Re
publican Senate after it had been passe
by a Democratic House Of Represen
| tatiYes
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THE Radical city convention of
Cincinnati Wednesday nominated
John f. Terrence for Mayor, as a
compromise between James Ruffin,
chief of police, and S. s. Davis,
banker, who had so bitterly con-
tested for the honor that it was
thought neither of them could carry
the full strength of their party.
Terrence is a member of the Ohio
Senate, and had previously declined
being a candidate for the nOmina,
lion
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T. BIGELow LAWRENCE, son and
principal legatee of the late Abbott
Lawrence of Boston, Minister to
England under Gen. Taylor, died at
Washington on Sunday last, after
a four days sickness, the complaint
being a malignant carbuncle on
the back of the neck. Mr.. Law
renee had been for several years
Consul General to Rome, succeeding
Gen. King, Of Wisconsin, who had
been Minister Resident up to the
time of the reduction of that office
to consulate. Mr.. Lawrence was
not personally known till two pc
culiar events brought him prOmi-
nently before the country. The
first of these was his marriage TO
Sallie Ward, the famous Kentucky
belle and beauty. His marriage
did not make less sensation than
his divorce from his wife a few
years later on account of incom-
patibility of temper between the
parties. Mr.. Lawrence afterwards
married Pennsylvania lady, who
survives him, and who has been
attending him in his last illness.
Mrs. Lawrence, nee Ward, after
wards married DR.. Hunt, and was
known as Sallie Ward Hunt.
The death of Abbott Lawrence
devolved great wealth and consid
cradle executory duty upon his son,
and this occupied several years.
His subsequent appointment to the
Consul Generalship of the Roman
States is remembered lie had
been in Washington city for some
time, but was not taken i'll till
Wednesday. Four physicians at,
tended him from the first, but his
case was soon seen to be beyond
remedy.
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BUTLER and his Reconstruction
Committee in their bill for Missis-
sippi clearly give Grant the cut
direct. Ia fact, it is now well
known in Washington that the
President has gone to pieces. And
this "within a little month or ere
those shoes were old" in which he
was inaugurated. 1t is the style
to speak of ex-President johnson 8
administration as a failure because
he deserted his party. What will
be the extent of the failure when
the party deserts the President?
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ILLNESS OF EX-PRESIDENT JOHN.

Intelligence reached this city
yesterday of the sudden and Sc
riOus illness of Mr.. Johnson, and
from a general dispatch stating that
his Washington city physician had
been summoned, his attack was
doubtless an acute one. Our later
specials, however, report him as
relieved. The affection is one to
which he has been subject for sew
eral years.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
Notice to Show Cause-In Bankruptcy;

Notice to Show Cause-In Bankruptcy.
i Davis, s. A. Carter, T. McFarliu, ID. b.
CHffe. Juan o. Rucker and James u. ClOnston, OF
Williamson county. Tennessee, have filed in the
Office of the Clerk of this court their petitions
for discharge, and it was thereupon ordered BY
the court that hearing be had upon the Same
on the 18th day of april. 1860, at the Of
fee Of the Register at the court house in Frank
lin, Tennessee, at the hours OF . ~,
TO- l0i3, II. and lli2 A. NJ, and that all
creditors who have proven their debts, and
other persons interested, may appear at said
time and place and show cause, if any, they
have why the prayer Of said petitions should
meetings ef the creditors will be had before the
Register at same time and place.
+. Il. CAMPBELL, Clerk
Us Dist. Court Middle Dist. Tenn.
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TIE United States Senate is com
posed of comparatively new men,
there being only eight who We're
members previous to 1860.
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TENNESSEE BONDS weaker on
yesterday in New York. So says
the telegraph. If SO, why so? Let
the parties responsible answer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-26

AN Indian chief eli Parker,
late of Grants staff is to be ap-
pointed Commissioner of Indian
Affairs.
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IT is reported that the recogni,
ton of Cuban independence is gain
ing ground in Congress.
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AGENTS WANTED.

A aENFs GANMEKR PROM 90 % to s,5 %
n per day. selling Blsks's Dollar Chair
Springs. eThsy make Spring ard ROcking
Chair out Of any common chair, hy a5faching
cannot get out Of order they will last life
time. The old fashioned rockers are dispensed
with. FOR the house and ONCE they are indis-
pensable. Ladies pronounce them unsqnalled
for aseaing chair. III you want an Agency. call
and see sample or send for Circular, z.isb terms
etc. $50 Reward upon the conviction of any
person or persons who shall infringe upon
Blake's Patent Chair-Spring.
Address hFOpTietOrs and Manu- faeturers. Gl2
Broadway. N. Y G. X. GOODWIN Z CO.
Price reduced 10 Agents. uar2i ID
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ELECTRIC BATHS.

which are SO PLEASANT. INVIGORATING
and STRENGTHENING. that every patient we have
lad is delighted with them. and all persons
Morphine and Laudanum, which is so often the
cause of suicide, will do we'll to put themselves
under our treatment, as We have succeeded in
cured the disease for which they have taken
the drug.
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STREET SPRINKLING.

OWING TO FALSE REPRESENTATIONS
" made by certain party, many eifisenI OF
Nashville are labOring under the impression
that nave Withdrawn from the Street SPrink
ling Business. and that the work nov BEING
performed IS by this party; also that was
favored by the party in power. FOR the iniOr-
nation of the public generally, i would state
that when applied for the use Of the hydrant
water 1 vas fatly refused. saying that coh-
tract bad been given 10 another person.
will simply state that having received sui
heisnt encouragement from the majority Of the
citiEenA, 1 intend to sprinkle over the sane
grOuad as heretofore.
HOpSag that the above explanation will show
things In their true light. and soliciting con
nnuafson Of your patronage. 1 an your ODE
dent servant .--- r..
febIe If Nv. CARPENTER.
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TO FARMRRSI
Pure Rawbone Dust for Fertillzing.
THE GREATEsT MANURE KNOWN,

WE ARE MANUFACTURING, AND AL
w ways keep on hand large stock of Pure
ind 1t greatly 10 their advantage if they will
give ii a trial.
For full particulars for using, apply to
j. +. O'SHAUGHNESSY n CO.,
afebl7 2m Office, No "A Market street,
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Great Distribution.
By the Metropolitan GIFT Company.
Cash Gifts "a the amount of S25O, 900.
Every Ticket Draws a Prize.

valued
A chance to draw any OF the above prizes for
jcents. Tickets describing prizes are sealed in
envelopes and we'll mixed. On receipt of y
cents a Seated Ticket is drawn without choice
and sent by mail TO any address. The prize
named upon it will be delivered to the ticket.
holder on payment of One Dollar. Prizes are
Immediately sent TO any address by express or
return mail.
You will know what your prize is before you
pay for it. Any prize exchanged for qHQiher of
sumo Udt1c No blanks. Our patrons can de-
pend on fair dealing.
REFERENCEs.- select the following from
many who have lately drawn Valuable Prizes
aud kindly permitted us to publish them:
T. wilkins, Buffalo. S5,D0l; Miss Annie Monroe,
Chicago. Plane. 1850; John d. Moore, Louis
willie, $40, D; Mis- EmmaW alwOTth, Milwaukee.
Piano, So; Rev. II. A Day. New Orleans. $500.
We publish no names without permission.
OPINIONS OF THR PRBss.-"The firm is reliable
and deserve their success. y Weekly Tribune.
Oct. 5. We know them to be a fair dealing
frm,"-N !, H,rdid, Oct. y. "A faiend of
ours drew $500 prize. which was promptly re-
ceived '-DditU NsiCs, Dec. 3.
Send for circular. Liberal inducements to
Agents Satisfaction guaranteed. Every pack
age of Sealed Envelopes contains ono nAsB
GIFT. Six Tickets for 81; Is for 81 IS for s.; ITO
Tor Sl5. All letters should be addressed to
HARPER, WILSON a go.
raar26 I'm lz3 Broadway, N. "
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BROWN DICK

VA ILL MAKE THE SEASON OF 80 ATMY
w stable. Terms same as last year. For par
ticulars see bills
feb2}-lm Il. Il. COCKRII.L.
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ACCOMMODATIONS.

Boarding and other accommodations As good
and as cheap a. any other similar institution,
North or South.
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1t PAYS. 1t Is PRUDENT.
It is SAFE.
mar2O Il ISO. N. HAss Pre>.t
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JACK MALONE

w my Stables. ..
TERMS-One Hundred Dollars. Con-
dtiOns same az last year. which. with peligree
and performances. will appear in his bills
lobl6 Sun lBl w. ca. HARDING.
TTIHE DISTINGUISHED TROTTING Stall
i lion, IDOL, will stand the present season
Gallatin. near Nashville Pike, at $50 the sea-
sou, payable LIST July, lS59. In case of failure,
the mare will be returned the next season
gratis. Special attention will be given 20 mares
rom distance. Good grass furnished gratis,
and grain fed at five doll ars per month. Fl.
u. F. CHEATHAM,
mar2t Supt- Fair View Stock Farm.
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Seed Corn Seed Corn |!

WE WISH TO BUY A CONSIDERABLE
w quantity OF pure white Seed Corn, and
viii paw fair price for the same. Farmers
having such are respectfully requested to bring
OF send Us samp C. at once.
RHEA. SMITH Il CO., train Dealers.
mar25 lW 20 South Market Street.
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-BOlJ en5 .Ga rIiGE ElW I1ldE.mTH
OUR SUCCESS.
-..-r-up g.G.J ll-lII... r.-I
Our Location,

We are located in one of the most healthy
cities in the West or South. We are on high
ground, and in the most airy and healthy part
Of the city. with no Other house joining US
nearer than two hundred feet on either side, so
that we have q free circulation OF air. and our
rooms are all vel! ventilated on every side. s.
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CONSULTATIONS.

examinations and consultations ia our rooms
FREE. Visits for EXAMINATIONS or eonsnIta-
tons IN any other part of the city, Five Dollars,
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CORRESPONDENTS.

Persons writing to US for further information
One Dollar, with their name aud pOstOffice ad-
dress plainly written, and they will receive i'm
mediate attention and answer by return Of
mail.
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BATHING DEPARTMENT
FEEBLE PERSONS.

Patients who are very low and feeble. need
ing constant watching and attendance. will do
" ell to bring a friend with them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-27
Post Cards i'm Austria,

A new arrangement has just been
adopted in the Austrian postal service,
especially to business men. Post
cards, as they are called, have just been
issued, which can be sent 10 any part of
the Austrian monarchy for the exceed
ingly low price of two Austrian kreut-
zers equal to one cent?. The post cards
are about twice the size of ordinary
visiting cards, are made Of stiff paper,
folded in the middle, and one of the
outser sides is prepared for the address.
The inside of the card is devoted to the
reception of the letter, and also contains
on the top printed directions for use. The
cards may neither be sealed nor placed
in envelops, bat just doubled up, and then
thrown into the receiving boxes.
OF course. these will not be used for
private communications, such as require
secrecy, bat are very well adapted for
business purposes, the transmission of
ooss.asFs, notices OF the arrival of or ship
ping Of goods and such like. The Gov
eminent retains the privilege Of destroy
ing all such OF these cards as may con-
tain matter OF an insulting or indecent
character. Tue advantages oil these post
cards in commercial country can hardly
be estimated. Their adoption in America,
we think, would be hailed with Joy by the
business men. Ii would DO simply the
extension OF the privileges enjoyed by
newspapers to general correspondence.
Might not the Uuited States postal au-
thorities just think over this excellent
Austrian arrangement little
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-27
soUND ON DEMOCRACY.

The Press and Herald, live and
ably conducted sheet published at Knox
Vile, Tennessee, expresses itself in the
following style on the subject Of q new
party. Speaking of sectionalism and
the means of getting rid Of it in the coun-
try, says:
But this will not be until the dissolu-
ton Of the Republican party of to-day.
And the way to accomplish this result is
not for the Democrats and Conservatives
to join the Liberal Republicans-the nu-
merically strong to the numerically
weak, the organized to the unorganized-
but for those Republicans who have the
wisdom to see the sectional tendencies OF
their party to unite with the Democrats
and Conservatives. We cannot tell to what
party we shall belong when the Republi-
can party no longer curses the country,
and the new national party is formed
but for the present, as lovers of our coun-
try, we cannot do otherwise than continue
our support in matters of national policy
to the Democratic party-though without
yielding our assent to many of its doc
trines in the past, and perhaps to some of
those it now holds-simply because we
honestly believe that only through the
success Of the National Democratic party
can the spirit of seetionalism be banished
from the land.
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BY TEL E G R A P q.
LATEST To NOON TO-DAY.
Dispatches to the Southwestern Press
Association.
LOUISVILLE.

Louisville, August 27.-Geo. F. Hoff-
man, alias Geo. Black, who, it is believed,
has been committing some villany in the
Southwest, was arrested here yesterday.
One Of the channel spans Of the bridge
over the Ohio river, three hundred and
seventy feet long, was completed yester-
day. This is the longest span Of any
truss bridge erected in this country. The
whole bridge viii be finished in the early
part Of November.
The Courier's Washington special says
The Governor elect (Senter) Of Tennessee
on hearing that Stokes is here to get the
President to remove saeh riiee'holders
as voted the Conservative ticket in the
reeen; stais election, denisd that he
lSenterl had come on toinduce the Pres
ident not TO heed Stokes but he adds
that il viii be great outrage il any
dice holder Is removed fsr any such
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tween Miss Harriet Lane and Mrs.
Douglas, which resulted in the division
of the Democratic party and the rain
that followed
Will net Secretary Boutwell, take warning
by the past, and cease his onslaught on
the Dent family? Mrs. Grant is the power
behind the scenes, and before this ambi-
tious Secretary is aware of what ia pass
ing, his expulsion from the Cabinet will
be decreed, and on grounds perhaps he
would not have imagined. Things will
result in his entire overthrow, or Presi-
dent Grant will have to sign bill of d.
vorce, giving up the partner of his joys
and sorrows. Woman was never known
to fail when once she undertakes to ac-
given purpose. For ourselves,
we would surrender at discretion.
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that his Is chronic case of error AND,
although might preach to him IN the
eloquent strains of Alexander Campbeh
or Of John Bascum, and saw the 81. g
rounding atmosphere" with my arms
"until my eyelids would no long, sr wag, !"
il would be all in vain. NJ, words of
wisdom and virtue would faiI upon his
scorched and scared Conscience like the
dew drops and the genial showers of
heaven fall upon the parchsd plains and
arid wastes Of Sahara.
But "Teoktilla is charged by the
Avalanche and Mr.. Avery with having
made an attack upon the private charac-
ter of the latter.
This is not true in fact, nor can it be
sustained in any fair argument based
upon his communication to the LEDGER.
He had no cause or desire to do so. Mr..
Avery's conduct as q public man,
member of the Legislature afforded him
all the materials he required for his pur-
pose. "Teoktila" maintained and re-
asserts that all and everything that q
member of the Legislature does or says
10 regard to the election of Senator by
that body, whether said or done covertly
or publicly, is fit subject of inquiry by
his constituents; that such member has
no right to barter and trade for his own
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by virtue ofthe
franchises aud privileges conferred upon
him by his constituents, and then to
claim exemption from inquiry and in.
vestigation by them. Ii Mr.. Avery
pledged himself to the support of Colonel
Topp as candidate for United States
Senator, he did not pledge the private
and personal support of Mr.. Avery, but
be pledged the support of his constituents,
whose agent he was, and who conferred
upon him the power to act in the pre-
mises. And "Teoktilla" only claimed the
right to look into the private history Of a
matter OF general public concern. This
ia "Teoktilla's offense, and nothing
more. He presnmes to know nothing of
Mr.. Avery's private affairs, but supposes |
he PAYS his honest debts and provides |
for his family; if he does not,
it may be said OF him that he is worse |
than an iDfidel."
As w. T. Avery is SO tenacious about
the sacredness of private character, is 1t
not astonishing he should have been 80
far led of by passion, aud have stultified
himself as he has done, as to. attack K:
A. Allen in so violent and personal
He has known r A. Allen
for many years, and he well knows that
both his private and public life have
never been impeached or questioned, and
that he may now defy the feeble denun-
citation. defamation and detractipn of w.