Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-17
CLAIMING RICHARDS.
NEW YORK,

Nxw YoRK, December IA Colum-
bia, 8. c., dispatch of yesterday says :
A bill to pay in coin the interest on the
State debt Of g. l83. $40 passed the L .Ris-
lature. Another bill was passed requir-
ing each insurance company doing busi-
ness in the State to deposit with the State
Treasurer 10000 Of its bonds. f.
The Times says. aside from the caustic
which he applied to Greeley, that Batter
letter, in case of special pleading, is
altogether out of place. 1t then reviews
the prescription of Southern men, aud
says the dignity of the United States, the
confidence it already feels in its own
people, and the confidence it seeks to
inspire in foreign powers regarding its
future, alike demand the broad, generous
policy Of q general amnesty. II there
chance to be here and there men whom it
is we'll to except, let them individually
be reserved by name from the action of
wide, sweeping and magnanimous act.
We have conquered once by arms, let us
conquer again by magnanimity. rfait
The Heralds special from Richmond,
Va, says: A dispatch from Raleigh
states that great Indignation prevails
throughout the State in regard to the de-
preston and incorporation of rail-
road and other bonds issued during the
session of the Legislature of 1868 and
1869. The bills. now pending in both
houses requiring the return OF all new
State bonds yet unsold to the Treasury,
to be issued only by installments as
needed by the railroads, have been post
poned till after Christmas A bill is
pending, however, and will pass, calling
in the unconstitutional bonds issued to
the Chatham railroad, and fraudulenl'y
sold I; but providing that ell innocent
holders of them shall in lieu thereof re
ceive bonds held by the State or that ros.'.
A resolution was passed yesterdsy in
the Senate ordering railroad officers ;"
sell no moro State bonds ct less than Is
per cent.
There are general and widespread iu-
mors that the bonds appropriated for
railroad purposes have been misapplied
and fraudulently issued, and that persons
implicated are stunning an investigation.
This occasions much feeling, and repudi-
alton is openly threatened.
A meeting Of the workiDgmen of this
city was held last evening for the purpose
Of considering the question of cheap
labor. Resolutions we're adopted strong
" protes Jog against the importation of
Cinnamon into this country BY the Amer.
lean Immigration S,ciety, to the injury
of the working classes, and calling on
Congress to take measures for its pre-
veution. SKIS ht
Jacob Dickinson was convicted Of the |
murder Of Peter Stskear, at Hackensack,
N. j., yesterday. %
T. W. Remsen and j. Hannigan, both |
policemen, we're yesterday dismissed for |
robbery. m ntlH M
1t is stated that an ATTEMPT was made |
last night to destroy the Spanish gun
boats by party of fifty Cuban sympa-
thizers. Inform alton was given of the |
party to the Spanish authorities in time
to enable them TO take the necessary
measures to Illustrate she scheme. An |
extra force of armed men was placed on
the guubosts, and the Cubsns finding
that their design had leaked out, did not
make the attack.
LEwIsvILLE, December IT, Hiram
Powers has been sentesced to be exc
Gated, on the 4th of February, for the
murder Of Richard s Low. L'tt