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The DeIusiOns of ByrOn's Widow.
To the Editor of the Pail Mall Gazette.

To the Editor of the Pail Mall Gazette:
Sir: Lady Noel Byron resided, on
and of, many years in Brighton, and
her circle of friends conceded very
closely with my own. For most of
these years l heard OF but one crime
of which she accused her dead hus-
band, but latterly of two, which need
not be named. Six or seven persons
more or less known to me received
her communications, three of whom
were Americans. Her communica-
lions were not given as secrets, but,
on the contrary, as facts to be used for
the defence of her conduct. character
or memory. Some of these persons
received them as Mrs. Beecher Stowe
did-Rev. Frederick Robertson for
one; others thought "her mind was
touched upon the subject of the sepa-
ration" In 1917 one OF her best
friends asked me to talk with her on
the liabilities to error of private judg-
ment when deciding questions invOly-
ing criminal charges which can be
properly investigated only by public
tribunals. No one, l told her, had Il
right to repeat such charges, except
ul uCCloiOIc vi NpuIIo vi law L1tI
stories differed. Her narratives and
memoranda were given away right
and left. The confidantes who knew
her best, her peculiarities, her troubles
with her daughter, her elder grand
son, her servants, never would have
repeated her stories with pens and
types. They thought her mind was
touched. Suspicious had become de-
lusions. Three of her friends, myself
being one, came separately to this
conclusion. The sealed papers held
by her trustees, if they contain the
accusations she made, can only be
records of her decisions; for the
charge she made most frequently is
not capable of proof; and the charge
Mrs. Stowe has published is compare
lively recent and incredible.
JOHN ROBERTSON.
No, u Norfolk Road Sept. IL. 1869.
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Sound Counsel.

The Richmond Wig publishes tine
following letter, written by a negro in
Africa, who has lived there for nearly
twenty years. We commend il to the
perusal of the colored men of the
South:
MoNRovIA, LIBERIA, Jan. 3, 1869.
l have now lived in this home of
the African for nearly twenty years,
but l have not forgotten the old scenes
in Virginia, nor the kindness of my
friends in former days. l wish it was
in my power to return for a time, that
my voice might be heard by my col-
Ored brethren of the Southern States.
l am anxious for their fate. / sit
here ON the shores of this continent,
filled with a native black population,
and look across the water to your con-
tinent filled with white men. L can
not but be fearful in regard to the fu-
ture of the few millions of people of
my own blood in the South, now left
to their own resources.
see tide of white men pouring
over those fields; a tide coming from
the overlooking population of the
Northern States and Europe. | re-
member how that tide, when feeble
and slow, swept Offthe native Indians,
and now, as it rusheS in its might,
what Is to shield the transplanted AT
from its waves? l can think of
but one hope for him.
If, as a body, the colored people of
the South shall identify themselves
with the white people, who now oe-
cgpy and hold the soil, gain their af-
lection and confidence, and become
useful members. of their communities,
they may float above the torrent and
still dwell in peace among the associ-
atiOns of the past. Otherwise, they
must, in the lapse of years, be buried
beneath it, or washed, like driftwood,
the burning zone around the
Equator.
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TIE Legislature has before il a bill
abolishing the Board of County Com
missioners for Davidson county. We
do not understand why Shelby county
was not included, and hope it may yet
be done by an amendment of the same
bill. So far as this county is concern
ed, the said Board has been a remark
ably injurious nuisance. 1t has been
notorious for oppression Of the people
through injurious contracts, large *
travagance and official emolument,
with high taxation consequent on
these abuses. 1t ought to be abolished
at once, and either the old system re-
newed, or some less dangerous and
better plan invented with the proper
restrictions and guards.
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THE negro editor of the Missionary
Record, the Radical organ in South
Carolina, pronounces the doom of the
carpet-bagger. AS the representative
of his race, he proposes they shall
have the offices as well as the votes,
as all "sovereigns" have a right to
do. He says:
We do not know who the lucky chap
may be, but one thing is pretty certain,
that the negro proposed to send a true
representative of his race to represent his
interests at the next election for Congress-
men. These long, lank, sharp-nosed gents
tthe carpet-baggers) may prepare for de-
feat. They will have to take n back seat
till somebody else has had a chance, The
colored people have been sold often
enough, and they have come to the con
clusion that these adventures with white
faces and black hearts shall not any lon
ger belle them and fatten off their stu
pidity. We venture to say no one of these
pretending scamps will even go to Wash
ingtOn 10 misrepresent them again. So
of certain people who are preparing to 90
to the Senate through the Influence of
eOlOred Legislators, fine speeches, and a
few hundred dollars. That will not nav
the way to the Senate in the future as It
did In the past. Please take notice and
govern yourselves accordingly.
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THE recent ultra Southern zeal OF
some Southern journals and their
preSentabandonment to the EXTREMIST
and most abhorrent doctrines of Radi-
callsm reminds us, 50 far as the ques-
ton of consistency is involved, of a
vain Mississippian and STAKEHOLDER
who was addicted to spinning incredi-
bly, boastful stories. He was accus-
toned to call on black JAKE, his in
separable companion and body ser
want, to substantiate his yarns. On
one occasion the master told a gaping
crowd of listeners how he had killed
a deer, shooting the animal through
the head and hind leg with the same
and a single ball. JAKE was called
on, and after scratching his head and
hesitating for a moment, said: "Yes,
Massa did it, l seed himi he shot Ge
deer when it was scratching its head
wild de hine foot" JAKE grunted a
grunt of satisfaction, and the crowd
was satisfied. Not long afterward
JAKE and his master were alone to-
gether when JAKE said: "Massa Bon,
de next time you tell a story don't
put de eends so fur apart. 1t is too
dam hard to get 'em togedder.n
The two ends of the two universal
suffrage policies' are unutterably re-
mote from one another. The genius
of a JAKE could alone reconcile them.
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a CORRESPONDENT writing Us from
central Mississippi represents a con-
siderable falling off in the cotton crop
in the prairie regions from what was
anticipated. He says, moreover, that
4" scarcely half the area of land in the
prairies which was cultivated before
the war has been titled. The negro
population has greatly diminished,
and the number of blacks that remain
cannot be induced to cultivate as
much land as in former years. Plant
ers are beginning to SOW wide fields in
clover, which grows as luXuriantly in
the prairies as in the blue grass region
of Kentucky"
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DONoHO, Joy & CO.,
q Madison Street, Mem
GLoice SeLechons-Eor SnLe.
COMMERCIAL AGENCY.
a CARD.

TNHE undersigned hereby respectfully no.
Il THY their subscribers and the merchants
OF Memphis, generally, that they have ap.
pointed Mr.. w. L. MATTHEWS manager OF
their Branch at this point. Mr.. Matthews
experience and acquaintance with the bust
ness in other localities will guarantee TO sub
seribers strict, thorough and prompt attention
to their wants.
Especial attention VIII be given to the col
lection of past due claims, or the address OF
carefully selected Attorneys will be furnish
ed where parties prefer doing their own cor
~respondence.
A Reference Book, containing the names
and commercial rating of nearly every busi-
ness man In the United States and British
PROVINCES lover GHl,G0 namesD is issued semi
annually@January and Julv-fOr the use Df
subscribers; the ratings based upon the elab-
orate details which their office records furn-
ish, are by far the most reliable and carefully
made of any work of the kind.
This agency was originally established in
1911. II has branches in every important city
III the United States and Canada and also in
London, England, and its large and constant
ly growing influence, Notwithstanding many
efforts TO initiate 1t by others, is the best evil
dence that can be given of its equitable prin-
ciples and its useful operations. II j., EN-
phaticaily, designed forthe promotion and
protection of trade"
Terms of subscription will be made known
on application to the office, corner Main and
Madison streets. II. q. DUN & %.
MEMPHIS, October z, 1869. OCT
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THE political Liberalism y OK
pounded by the present advocates is
very like that profuse generosity now
and then illustrated in social life.
There are those who waste in dram
shop conviviality their little earnings,
and have wives and children at home
breadless and unclad. These fellows
are always voted hugely "liberal" by
their boon companions and by sponges
who guzzle mean whisky at their cost.
The newly born political Liberals
of Tennessee, to win riotous applause
at the hands of political "dead-beats,n
are ready to squander the recent in
Invaluable gains of Conservatism, and
thus cOnsign a State, gloriously re-
deemed, to ruin, ignorance and pow
prtV.
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THE Metropolitan Police system of
this city is extremely expensive, and
unnecessarily so. Besides, it is ire
sponsible to a great extent, and un-
controlled byany suitable supervising
power. To how great an extent
abuses exist we are not fully advised,
but we hear many complaints. We
call the attention of the members of
the Legislature from this city to this
matter. We hope to see a bill passed
which will return our old system of
police, under proper regulations, or
restrict and control the present, re-
duce the expenses, hold every officer
and member to the strictest account.
and protect every citizen in his lawful
rights. Unnecessary violence in ma
king arrests, and all abuses and cruel
ty to prisoners, should be visited with
penalties. The police tax is collected
and paid over direct to the Superin-
tendent, and does not go intOt the com
man treasury Of the city. The whole
matter will bear overhauling very
well.
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THE New York Hegdld says: "By
the news we receive from Tennessee
from day to day it is evident that ex-
President ANDREW JOHNSON is ahead
of all competitors for the United
States Senate. Good, and amen, we
say. No more useful man could be
sent to the Senate. Congress is cor
rupt to the ore. ANDY is both hon
est and vigilant, and, with all his
crotchets and failings, he win prove a
very watchdog to the Treasury. He
is fearless and experienced in Con-
gressional tactics, too, and will rake
scheming politicians and Treasury
plunderers fore and aft"
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JOHN COyoDE, NJ. c. from Penn
~sylvania, lately declared in a speech
that his grandfather was sold as a
slave at Walnut street wharf," and
that iii was the captain Of the vessel
that gave him his name-GAYODE-
which has since been changed to
CovODE." Our.regard for the negro is
50 great as to make US regret this dis
closure. 1t is a misfortune to the
race that every "mean niger" can
go about Boosting of his ancestry.
Our discOlored County Commissioner
has nothing to say on that subject,
because he knows it's of no use
"men are known by the company
they keep"
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do more for constitutional liberty
than any other man in Tennessee.
And that is a reason for his election to
the Senate, which has overwhelming
and irresistible force, sufficient to sat
isfy any mind governed more by rea-
son than by animOsity and passion.
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STOVES, ETC.
CHARTER OAK STOVE
CATECHlSM

QuexIOn-Who made the first Charter Oak
Stove?
Ans1ner.-G. F Filley, OF st. Louis.
Q.-When was il first made?
A.-In the year Bj2.
Q.-Are they good Stoves?
A.-The best in the world"
Q.-How are they made?
A--Erom the best quality of Iron.
Q.-WhO says they are good Stoves?
A.-Al those that use them?
CHOW many were sold in ISG8?
were l3,2f7 sold.
Q.-How many out of that number failed?
A.-Not one.
,Q.-Who sells the genuine Charter Oak In
Memphis?
Al II SeHABEL & co, 2z BLALNST
Q.-Aret there imitation stoves ofthat manner
A.-Yes; plenty of them.
Q.-HOw can purchasers tell the genuine?
A.-By seeing the name of q. +. Filley on
each Stove,
Q.-How should parties order them?
A.-Ten your merchant to get FiIley's.
Q.-Does j. 4. SCHABEL & Co. have a good
a
A.-Yes; they sell them at Wholesale and Re-
and keep TIN WARE, CASTINGS, ETC., in
good supply.
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WANTED TO EXCHANGE
A n $500 Mississippi Plantation for a city
~ residence Of equal value.
Also, a sl2,500 Mississippi Cotton Plantation
for city property or merchandise.
Also, Arkansas Land and Sl5O0 cash for a
small farm near city, on railroad.
Also, City Lots aud Land for an assorted
stock Of merchandise.
Also, 1000 acres Arkansas Lands for mer-
~chandise, or city property.
Also, Suburban Improved Property and
cash for a irst-class city residence.
Also, select unimproved Is acre Suburban
Property for a nrst-class Mississippi River
Plantation.
Also, SI6O0 Yankee Notions and Millinery
for a small Improved farm.
Also, Merchandise for a small farm on rail-
rnah- - - - :. !. -
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Or the 3lst of March last, the closing
day Of what newspaper men all coneede
to be the busiest quarter of the year, re-
turns were made by the several newspa-
per concerns of this city, showing the fol-
lowing result:
FSi5A %
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FOR RENT OR LEASE.

Il or 5A In the city limits, containing y
IL acres rich land. On tie premises rs a
good Dwelling House, containing six rooms,
kitchen, servants rooms, two hne e~isterns,
etc, etc. For terms apply to
oeS ]. II. BRINkLEY, IS Madison 81.
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LATHs AND SHAVED SHINGLES

Particular attention given to the shipment
OF Lumber. Orders solicited.
no Mills and Lumber Yard on Wolf River
north OF Bayou Gayoso. =
se5d8w @, NJ. VENABLE,
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
LATHs AND SHINGLES.
Lumber, Laths and Shingles.


HAVE now ON hand, and am CONSTANT
i saving, "a full stock of Building Lumber.
of all dimensions; Sills, Joists, Siudding
Posts, Boards of all lengths, and clear Lum-
Der; also, a large stock OF -
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NOTICE.

THE co~partnership heretofore existing un
Il der the name of MCCOMBS q Co, has
been renewed and continued, under the
name anu style OF McCombs, Keller & Byrnes.
Melnphls, July 10, 1859.
The New York herald., 1869-06-25
THE TURF.
TUNE MEETING oF fnE sARRAGAHsErr PARK
q ASSOCIATION,
AT NARRAdAhsEiI r ARK, tKANsroN r. l.,
On ns..aay, r.,d.y and ss ,sss Saturday

IUkE MEETING or THE sAkkAGAfSETr PARK
81 ASSOCIATION,
AT NARRAGAhsEfI PARK, tRANsToN, r. l.,
on iIS ysss ssI ~ = Ssss sss ssa ~ isss. issa'''''
fkE&i Ms slb.0oo.
THIRD DAY.
No. D. purse of x10o, for al double teams Entres--
Br. Old Put aud ch. Honest Allen e. Twang and g. g.
Mac, blk India Rubber Ben and Rosa, blk Jessie
Wales and blk Darkness. bss q General Mcclellan and
No g. purse Of $780, for all horses ths, trotied
better 80. Entries:-B. A. Dresden. g. e. Mercer,
Stanley. Locust M Olive Logan, G. Starlight
blk r. Andy johnson, br m Nellie, Washington Irving
FOURTH DAY.
No a. purse Of 5000 for all horses that never rotted
better than 80 Entries:B Little Fred. br Old Put,
Rubber s. G. VIM II Taylor, t. g western New York, 8.
Lew Peee, blk. Cora Gray John. 4 Dutch Girl,
ch Climax, b. M Lady Whitman x Lady Hamilton,
blk Darkness, br. q. Manbrno Prince b. Belle Of
Brooklyn bks. g. Gen. Mcclellan -
No. 9. purse of x300 for ali horses Entries:-bk a.
Geo Wilkes b. M American Glrl. br Geo, Palmer br O.
Rhode Island b. Lady Thorn, m Lucy, blk Bashaw,
Jr- b. m. Goldsmith Maid.
All the above races mile heats, best In and all In
harness with the exception OF No. .rn
The Boston Providence and Providence and
Railroad Companies will sell excursion tickets at reduced
rates.
ten minutes, direct for the PARK.
Trotting to commence NJ O'Clock eaeh day =.
GEO. II. SMITH, Secretary.
Arrangements made special boat 20 icavs
Providence enct
day, for the better accommodation of pspe sttnfns Tie
meeting where they nd good fare ard ample accao
dations. GEO. n. SMITH stcfstarJ.
The New York herald., 1869-06-25
HORSES, CARRIAGES, 60.
THIS DAY, AT u M. AT "A DUANE STREET,
"A. JOHN l.. vANDEWATER, ,AuCTloNEER.

A THIS Pay At Y M At "A DpANE n1!GsEE sTEEEEEr BY
Regular Sale Of Horses waSous &c ,.,<
Bay nag tail Horse owned and driven by Geo. Osgood
wasoner free and s%coaa ses to Ssa,
and warranted sound and kind extraordinary nne ana
Handsome high bred stylish and fast bay Mare, sired by
Columbus dam by Hsmblconan l54 high, years old has
shown fo 20 road wagon superior on sye aho spssa s
Also, Wagons, city made, Harness, &c
Extra tine large and handsome chestnut trottng Horse M
high od very fine, rtysh and superior roadster
has record of speed be auaranteed can beat oo 70
road wagon Is without vice or trick perfectly sound anu
superior and fine animal
On account OF whom il may concern, STYLISH superior
and fast brown roDg Horse out OF thoroughbred eiock
hne game and prompt driver very as 70 speea
dnsy hne looker st high 6years old warranted In
harness and sound Further particulars and pedi
sorrel Mare l5a high years old sound kind good and
true n every Way hne family road or business hoIse w
worthy OF attention.
Also several hne and desirable Horses not specihed
ALSO several Wagons both and second hand Bugges.
with and without top; Depot Road and Irong wagons, ac
Also Harness. double and single and seconf hand, &C.
Sale prompt at IL NJ
THE ATTENTION OF GENTLEMEN WISHING A
No. ~ Duane street, this day II NJ prompt when
va be sold At public auction without limit or Tessvaton to
tns snd fas, troer. Bay flag tail Horse l5s
hh, old formerly owned and driven by George
oas1soa ksq. and 10 known Don; Ia exceedingly nne,
game and ambitious driver; vice nor tricks; warranted
He considered OF the fastest horses 10 road wagon that
ancsoe high bred stylish and fact bay Mare ISs high
year old prop game driver no vice nor tricks sires by
cOumbus dam By ambleionian showed last fall 246 70
and ns has @ %aeh % since rss
for beauty style and speed cannot be produced Full
particulars Ae., al sale Also Wagons, Harness &c
These horses hardy rugged and fast and are Mt for I'M
mediate and stand driving and speeding every day.
CHARLES ByRDEN,) Executors.
T. VI. NELLY,
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Union PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.
The coupons of the First Mortgage Bonds OF the Union
Pacific Railroad Company due July 1s6 viii be paid In L.
s. gold coin free OF government tax At the os Of the com
pany l State street. Boston, Friday June % aud A. the
banking house OF Blake, Bros. Go 81 We'll street, New
JOHN NJ 8. WILLIAMS
ia State street, Boston.
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TvNION DIME SAYINGS BANK,
" Nos. Se6 and 8s Canal street. corner ol Laisht
Six per cent interest on 80 90 t5,uV
Money deposited now viii bear interest from juiyt
Assets, S6s5o,6Y "a.
w u. PUTNAM 90 WALL srREEr.-BONDs AND
w Stocks bought ard sot. Loans negotiated on seeu
rites bond and mortgage, &C First Mortgages wanted
yArANrED-eooD $1,000 FIgsr AND SECOND MORT
w cages. Send applications With terms 70 H. b. Her
cid oflce
The New York herald., 1869-06-25

AN ELEGANT PRIVATE EsTABLIsHMEST-CoM.
"A prisine splendid dark bay Team, s hands year. no
together; one in 1850. Park Phncon built by
Miner Stevens and In good order together with set OF dou
bile Harness, city made 20 order.
The establishment is nov on eIhibon At private sale a
street. avenue and will be sold NJ public auction
highest bidder nj the mart OF Msssrs JOHNSTON
VAN TkssELI above, Friday, June & al u o'clock
rese
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FINANCIAL.

yxrANrEp-GooD STATE OR RAILROAD BONDS OR
w dividend paying Stocks, in exchange for improved anu
unimproved Brooklyn Property Including tine residence
stable &C. Of Address Estate, box
6,lgl odce,