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Death OF Lamartine.

From the Louisville Democrat OF the 3d.
Alphonse de Lamartine is no more.
He died day before yesterday at Macon,
France, where he was born during the
first outburst of the terrible revolution
of 1883 SO, which swept the monarchy
and feudslism from France. He was
thus q witness of the rise and fall of
R1bespierre and the terrible Committee
of Public Safety, Of the feeble Directory,
Of the first Empire, as well as the return
and second expulsion of the Bourbons.
He lived through the reign of the "Cis-
izsn King" and himself, for brief mo-
ment appeared upon the stage Of revOlu-
ton as Minister OF Foreign Affairs in the
Provisional Government Of 1s4S.
Upon the expiration OF the Presidency
OF Csvaignsc and the election of Louis
Napoleon, he retired to private life,
where he witnessed the creation Of the
second Empire, but has gone without
witnessing its fall.
His literary fame will probably rest
upon his poetry, as his lively fancy snd
his extreme egotism rendered him as 3
historian unreliable, and as his works of
fiction are q mere relation Of facts from
his own sentimental experience or, TO
put 1t in the language Of q witty French
critic, his histories are romances and his
romances histories. OF his literary works
the best known are Rseollections OF
NV YOuth,m the History Of the Giron-
dists, and Joslyn and Meditations, the
last two poems of considerable length
and great merit, which we believe have
never been translated into English
verse.
The friends of the late Confederacy
will retain q grateful recollection of the
dead poet, for his powerful appeals In
behalf of their recognition. Like ThOs
| Carlyle, his sympathies were on the side
of men who claimed to be struggling fol
the principle Of self government,
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An Ame,I lean ban at Rome,

The Americans in Rome had grand
ball on Twelfth Night. The wide stone
stairway of the cid PslsZzo Gregori was
well lighted, lined with trees and flowers
sll the way up, and covered with a sub
stsntial carpet. The afite-rooms were
filled with shrubs and plants, the red
berries of the holly intermingling with
the pine, the fir, and the box-tree. The
drawing rooms were festoOned with
flowers from the lofty ceilings, the side
walls being decorated with busts, pic
lures, and the stars and stripes. Hou-
din's bust of Washington, draped in the
flag, was just above Healey's picture of
Gen. Grant, while opposite was bust
OF Lincoln, and on the side wall one of
Gov. Seward, surmeunting Buchanan
Reads canvas, Sheridan's Ride" Fra
grant flowers were everywhere, the
lights we're brilliant, the music excellent,
and the stone floors well protected with
carpets, with crash for the dancers. The
company numbered over $50, with half q
dozen exceptions, all Americans, from
New Eagland to California. The dane
ing, which began at ten, was kept up
with unabated spirit, and when the Ger
man, or cotillOn as it Is called, was
reached, there were more than thirty
couples on the floor. During the early
part OF the evening buffet was provided,
with sandwiches, cakes, and tea for the
ladies; together with an artistic eombi-
nation Of champagne, green tea, pine
apples, strawberries, lemons, and snow.
Toward midnight the supper room was
thrown open, the tables well covered and
prettily decorated, the cakes iced to rep
resent the stars and stripes, and pretty
little American flags upon all the prin-
cipal a1L0ts
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RAILROAD MATTERS.

The work on the Massillon and
Cleveland Railroad, now in course Of
construction, is rapidly progressing, and
before the next national anniversary the
people will be in direct railroad eommu-
nication with the Forest City.
"A Mississippi exchange urges the
immediate undertaking Of the proposed
Mississippi Midland Railroad, and says
it will do more to bring down the rates
of freight and passenger transportation
on all our roads, as also on the Missis-
sippi river, than any other scheme the
wit Of man could possibly devise.
Gov. Randolph has sent 8 commu-
nieatiOn to the New Jersey Legislature,
recommending the abolition of the tram
sit duties upon passengers and freight
now collected from the consolidated
railroads, usually designated the Cam
den and Amboy monopoly, and uni
form tax on railroad property.
The Eastern Railroad Company has
at Ipswich, Mass, workman who has
tended switch and carried the mail for
seventeen years, and never failed to have
the switches right and the mail ready for
the train. He hss travelled nearly far
enough during the time he has carried
the mail to carry him around the globe,
or about twenty-four thousand miles.
"A suit has been brought by John r.
Penn, the trustee Of the $50, 900, 600 ster-
lug loan of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad Company, against the
Directors Of that Company and the Erie
Railroad Company, to compel the Erie
r abroad Company to appropriate the
money due, under lease, from the At
lantic to the Erie r abroad Company to
the payment Of the interest and princi-
pal of the mortgages Of the Atlantic and
Great Western Company.
The eff1cial report Of the receipts for
freight on all the railroads Of Great
Britain during the week ending Deeem-
bar 10, 1865, gives good idea of the
business carried on by means Of this
clsss of internal improvements. The
freight receipts during the period men,
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LONGITUDE OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Interesting Experiments on Last
Evening 10 Determine the
Rate of Electricity.

From the Chicago Times, Cd
The Times OF last Saturday contained
a somewhat detailed statement Of the
exI eriment in progress, under the di-
rection OF the United States coast survey
department, for the purpose Of deter
mining the longitude of San Francisco,
in which the important part played by
the lines Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company was fully explained, An
electric connection was made between
the clock of the Harvard observatory,
the one at San Francisco, snd those at
the intermediate points OF Omshs and
Salt Lake City, whose longitude was
also to be determined, for the purpose of
regulating them by standard mean time
at Cambridge. These clock comparisons,
by system of signals, are now com
pIeted, and, on last night, which proved
very favorable for telegrsphic operations,
other experiments were made, which,
though haSing no special connection
with the general objects TO be obtained,
we're Of q very interesting character.
Ia the account referred to, it was sta
ted that in the transmission of signals,
f0c the purpose Of noting the clocks to
within tenths OF 3 second, it was as
sumed that no perceptible time was oeeu-
pied in the passage Of the electric cur
rent. The experiments on last evening
were In reference to this long mootei
question. It has, of late years, bsen
pretty generally conceded by scientific
men that the passage of electricity was
not instantaneous, and about 100, 600
miles per second hiss bsen settled upon as
an approximate measurement of its rate
of speed. For the purpose OF the expert
ment OF last night, continuous metallic
4s,t.e
Francisco and retura was formed, ma
king a total distance of 1000 miles, the
longest over which signals have ever yet
been transmitted. The longest continu-
Gus circuits ever before worked have
been from New York to San Francisco,
from New Orleans to New York, and
once from Cape Breton to San Franeisco,
the longest of which is several thous-
and miles shorter than the circuit worked
las. night.
The experiments last evening proved
entirely successful, as may be inferred
from the following telegram from As
sistant George w. Dean, who is located
at Salt Lake City, to Gen. Anson S.ager,
OF this city, General Superintendent of
the Western Union Company:
"The coast survey experiments last
night for measuring the time OF trans
mission of clock signals through a COM
pick telegrsphic circuit OF 1000 miles was
brilliant success, and every gentleman
who took part in the experiment is de-
serving OF the highest cOmmendation for
prompt attention to business"
Further than this the result is not
known, though, so far as it was possible
to observe the signals at the office here,
they were instantaneous on both lines of
the circuit. The result will probably be
shortly announced, and will be looked
mine whether the rate OF 100, 900 miles
per second is a correct approximation.
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timed, on 13. 355 miles, amounted to
S3, 744 ,129. and for the corresponding Pc
ri0d in 1867. on Is, 900 miles, amounted
to s., 1877 1896. It will be.seen that there
was an increase of 3i6 miles Of road
during the interval between the two Pc
riods, but only an increase Of s6725 In
the income. An examination OF the
receipts of the fourteen principal lines
shows that their profits are diminishing,
thus the sum taken in by these fourteen
lines amounted altogether TO So 49,, 955
on 9677 miles, while for the correspond
ing term in'1S67 they realized $3, ,l64, $50
on 9425 miles; or, in other words, their
receipts fell of $lS65, although their
lines had been increased 252 miles.
AgaiH, these statistics exhibit the fact
that while some of the roads are doing
fair business, the others are earning very
little. Thus these fourteen roads, with a
miiesge OF 967S, earned So, ,162. 955, while
the remsiniDg roads, with a mileage Ct
1878, only earned $5S1 1855.
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/ wisely, and that is not for Us to say, the
Constitutional law Of Tennessee is, that
| the taxing power is essentially legisla-
| tive, and incapable of delegation to other
! than the counties and incorporated
towns. And so we declare, and having
no doubt that it is so, we hold that the
| l4th section Of chapter SO Of the act OF
March IA, 1865, and the tax assessed puf-
suant TO it, by the Board of Education
of the 18th Civil District Of Montgomery
county, are unauthoriz ID by the Consti-
tuition and are void. The Chsncellor's
order dissolving the injunction will be
superseded and vacated, and the Clerk OF
this Court will so certify to the Chancery
Court at Clarksville.
HENRY G. SMITH.
am unable to assent to the views ex-
pressed by the msjority Of the Court in
this case.
The case of Marr vs.. Enloe decides that
an act of the Legislature comforting on
the contrary Courts unlimited power to
levy taxes to meet the current expenses
of the county is invalid, it being dele
cation of legislative authority. But it is
expressly held in that case that statute
authorizing the county courts to levy
tax OF 121 cents per acre on lands for
contingent expenses Of the county is not
Court in that case is applied mainly to
the consideration of public policy, no
authority is referred to in support of it,
and / think the decision, so far as it is
adverse TO the eonstitutionslity of such
legislation, is opposed both to reason and
TO authority.
The question has been often discussed
and long settled elsewhere, aud do not
propose 20 enter into the discussion at
length here. See Cooley const. I9l.
L is possible that the doctrine that the
Legislature cannot confer the power of
taxation upon counties or other NJ unici- |
pal organizations, without express au-
thorfty to that effect in the constitution, |
has been so long and so universally as
sented TO and acquiesced in as the settled |
to question it, though it is serious quss- /
tiOn how far that consideration sione l
should influence 8 court to set aside or \
q clear and express enactment 1
OF the Legislature. But, however, that 1
may be, l am unwilling to hold that we /
are authorized to declare the act |
now in question, invalid upon the |
mere authority of Mari vs. Enloe. |
The argument, that as the Convention
which framed the Constitution of 1884 |
expressly confers upon the Legislature
the right to authorize taxation by coun-
tifs and incorporated towns without
using any more general terms, it must
be considered as a prohibition against
such power to tax upon any
other municipal organization has in my
opinion little weight in view Of the fact
that at the time of the formation Of that |
no civil districts or local |
Boards of Education existed in this |
State, and that this power was by the /
Constitution conferred upon the only |
organic alton then existing.
GEO. ANDREWS, Judge.
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A New way to Make Butter.

The method exhibited at St. Louis)
is exceedingly simple. -Four and half
pounds Of Goshen butter we're placed in
sn Old-fashionsd earthen chuS8s There
were then added four pints and half
of pure fresh milk. Next was put in an
ingredient Of but few ounces in weight,
nutrieious and perfectly wholesome, no
compound, no drug, but q common and
cheap article familiar TO every house
wife. The dashsF was now vigorously
worked for four or five minutes, when,
presto there was nothing in the churn
but Eutter-nine pouuds Of delicious,
sweet, pure butter, quite as palatable as
though it had ali been ehurned from the
richest cream. The experiment was
unanimously voted a grand success, and
the process q wonderful discovery. This
mcde of making butter has been pat
ented.
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Game IN a ShOe Store for Shoes

vEE ara now receiving supplies oaliy o.
N Roofs Shoes and Caters, comprising
en and complete line, ftom the substantial,
throneh an grades and qualities, up 20 what cur
Soi"iO~ j. =. LEVErT a CO.,
tbs- Cor. Union q Main streets,
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sUHOOL TAXES.
Right TO Authorize their COIIec-
liOn JudicIaIIy Considered.

B. o. Reese and others VS. the civil District
Board OF Education, etc the Members OF the
Board, and the Tax Collector Of Montgomery
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Pike N johnson,
COUNSELLOR6,
SOLICITORS AND ADVOCATES
WARRINGTON, D. c.

UyHIS FIRM, ESTABLISHED AT WASH
ingtOn, lOfice, 2Iz Streetl, viii attend 10
an caseS that may be entrusted TO them, IN the
Suprene Court OF the United states, and Court
OF Claims and also 10 the recovery OF claims
against the Govern ment or individuals ana
70 business before Congress and in the Depart
ments
Tle tenior member has been practising
lawyer for thiTty-twO years, and Is 4 meinoer
sas louisiana and the United states. 1DS
Junior bred a lawyer was long Represent
live and Senator in the Congress Of the United
states and familiar with the modes OF trans
acting business in the Departments
T7,e senior, retaining his residence al MEM
phis will also IS one OF the firm Of PIKE,
ADAMS & PIKE, attend 10 cases IN the Su-
preune Courts Of Arkansas and Tennessee, ana
IN the United States Courts and Chancery
Court at Memphis. noVzo
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GRooERs.


just Received!
WE have on hand and effer for sale at the
w lowest market prices,
100 .OOo Lbs. Pork, sides. Shoulders and
Hams.
200 Bbls. Mess Pork.
SO BbIs. Runp Pork.
IO,O0O Lbs. Pork JowIs.
600 Kegs prime Leaf Lard.
400 RbEs. assorted brands Flour.
500 BbEs. Seed POtnfOes.
1000 DOz. fresh country Eggs.
100 Bbis. MeIasses.
90 Hhds. Sugar.
zoo Bags RIO CeRee.
900 Ribs and 2Oo sacks salt,
And a complets stock OF Groceries.
STANTON & MOORE,
Memphis, February Is, lses. 81 Front street.
just r. e G i've Il
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ALEKKT PIKE, CHARLES ". ADAEs, L. H. PIKE
PIKE, ADAMS & PIKE,
Attorneys, Solicitors & PrOGtOrs

A TTEND 10 easas In the different Courts sit
a ting a. Memphis, snd In the river couhues
Of Arkansas.
So The Senior partner will hereafter espe.
cfally attend 10 cases in the supreme Court OF
Teuueesee and in the supreme Court and
CSourt OF Claims OF the United States at wash
ington, being OF the firm OF PIKE JOHN
son, OF that city.
Offioe IN the MADAM VINCENT BLOCK,
corner OF Court and second Streets
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Morning Train from Memphis does not run
on Sunday.
Leave Memphis, r. r time SEQ am. 4:0l pm.
Arrive al le.........--ll:45 pm. 630 an
Sleeping Cars on Evening Train from Mem
phis TO Louisville and Memphis TO Nashville.
Through Tickets Gt Reduced Rates,
Can be procured st the COmpany's once, 2S71S
Main street, and AZ Depot, head Of Main street,
HE Baggage Checked at Depot or by the Mem
phia City Transfer Company at Hotels, Pri-
vats Residences, or on board boats, 70 all prtn-
cfpal points East and North.
Telegraph Office in Ticket Office, 2S71z Main
SA&. B. JONES, Superintendent.
SELL HOWELL. Passenger Agent feb2l
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TRANSPORTATION.
QUICK T1nne East

Louisville Route Always Ahead
Spring SCHEDULE,
Commencing February 10, 1869
Double Daily Through Trains
WILL Run AS FOLLOWS ON THE
Memphis and Louisville Z. 3. Line
, 1869-07-31

II Won arc wounded 1 will take you to tho saf-
Tnn surerer accepted, and uynp,ng, but !nagh-
inr. gave lonls TO the boy, who sala;
IA yellow boy for dropping In the uud1 1--WE
me notice aud viii fAM ns oiten Is you Hsnt ZOE
that price," -.
NEW rLATs.
The theatre managers are uatng the summer
To prepare 1or the grind piecea to be brought cut
thIs coming winter. They speak palncd.
,as ,S.' whtts Cat which viii cost the
manager of the Gatle eoe 1000 francs fer costumes,
scenery, DC. Notwithstanding tho heat, mucn Is
,atI az new farce now playing at the GJuna-
s,um The writer IS Sisaod!n, the famous anthor-
ennfccttonet. The CHIEF actor L. RaFel, our best
comedian. The play Is called The Man With
scyen1y-alx NtEea." II gises the adventures oi
bachelor, who, AFTER having 1rul.lesay made seF-
cnt7-elx offers Of marriage, determines henceEor-
ward to make three proposals at once IN ordeF "a
increase his eha1cca- He Ii fortunate, sud al
tureo acceps II once. Tne strnngest results fol-
Ion this ENLARGEMENT
cuAHcEs OF WAR
Abo1c the horizon constantly hoEers the fcar Of
wAr. The Bourse II reassnred, and securities art
rising. But the leafs endure md cannct be re'
moved, because they ara reasonable france,
they say, does not want war, bat
the government does, or fafher II
pceds It In order to &c, out Of It's present emoa1'
rassncnts, to resa1n It's prestige and st1e fc'
nnscene liberty. Prussia does not want woT, but
It's government does, In ordeE to untfy its con-
quests and get free from iss more and more seri'
GUS financial dl1lcult1es- Anstria would IKE
war, but dare not provoke II, Italy would also
IKE waI, not to take part In 1t, but 30 thot the
country nnd It's steadily worsening financial stu.
ot.on might be betiered. So, wRlle SO many peo-
rte rely an Har To mend their finances and thelI
, 1869-07-31
DU QUOIN.
The Southern Normal SGhool-Thc
Advantages Offered by this Lo-
EnlilYa

Tho soutl.c.o Normal sehool-Tho
AdvxantuEcx Offered by this Lo-
cnlitT.
CJYrtspondsnes of 7Ae Chi.aeo Trfduae.
Du QcoE, H., July %, 1869.
Quite lively contest Il In progress among inc
growing young clItea Of S0r1he1n 1lr1ols 10 &c"
cure the location of the State Normal School, for
the building Of which provtsion was made BY the
General Assembly At It's last sess!on. Among the
most prominent contestants Is this 1ourishfng
,oups city Of nu Quo'r, snd We think nc can
show finer array Of advantages than hay one OF
oor competitors. It Ia central, healthy, With an
abundance Of good, puta watcr md inel, both coal
and wood. We arc IN Ferry County, On the llll-
no.s Central Railroad. and ut the crossing Of tho
Uel1cy1l1e / Sonthcl Illinois lt2road, which will
Be completed 70 In Quoan within year, and also
ro,d with the Illinois Central, which will make ns
Ihc great railroad centre Of Southern Illinois
D. Quoln ls Is 1u"cs south Of Chlc!9a and g
mica norfh Of Cairo. 1t has population OF about
stC1, gtyes sou to ~ Republican majority aud is
rapldly, growing IN moral, poltucA and matet.al
WEALTH s1t Il ~ Nv x ctf ana ou
are rofo0 10 now. Tae city has i thin It's limits
oa,se d plumber Of machIue shops Of various de-
are six retail grocc1es, three drug stores, four
hotels, three lumbe! yards, one printing otfice,
from which weekly panar ~ tssaca-tae ny
Thleh % cost 197,ooo, and used as graded school;
Christian, Baptist, Methodist presbytel Ian aud
Catholic churches, each OF which have hand-
The country around DuQaoln Il prairie and
woodland, md Is exceedingly festilr. The wtnteEd
arc u!ld and pleasant, with but little 6coT. Fruit
a WSen re soxes viz sens %
from here In 1860 In the l1Dned d!ate vicinity are
nine coal mines, from which over 1o9 600 tons were
These IRE q few Of our local advantages IN al.
dition 10 which cur people-1 might sas With un-
, 1869-07-31
POLITICAL.

Mrs. In. Mary Walker thinks thAt the death oI
tic rTes!debss mare was judgment oa hin lot
not giving her N ONCE.
Joseph E Sesns. Of Virginia. Publishes o Letter
protesting as7lns: II. assumption that the Denoc-
r2ey. in any shape or tusu, Won 4 t1iuup1 At the
recent election.
Goyc7ocE Pcase, Ct Texas, Eto faTota tue Uau.
tlt1n movement. thinks that Haeuton Will fecctve
ntoe-tentts Of the rube1uatot.21 vote, md esti.
naies the Davis vote III less than 1nt1.
Il Is said TIA. there 1s pla1 II pscscn: OF foot
IN the South to make F'rarkuu P,esce The c1aIt-
aase ot the Democrats q shas seeuoa toT The next
Presidency Of tAc Cnilel Sta.es-
The Nashville l7tss prints m estimate Of The
forthcoming sosc for Governor, In which dtty-
three coua,ies arc put down 10, senter bJ $3.50
majority, ard fifteen for Stokes bf 4,5n.
Bnhrer, coppeshead candidate tor treasurer oi
Ohio, Ia sorlJ he Was nominated FIST, bscaase
it VIII cost him sl.o1a secondi because be phi
not be elected. These arr Nj. B7arers sEu
rrasc1s.
The Democratic candidate fo- 1ieutcnant Gov
erEor Of Vermont La tinsntin, At Burlington, and
seizure OF feoo worth OF stock Of his manufactured
warr wa1 naade tne other day, On the charge that
the riscts csed in making l: were s-upsslea from
CzE1ta.
, 1869-07-31

Tho reports from Cnba never vary in tho
recital of the barba1ity which disgraees civil
war in al Spanish countries. The e1esu-
ton Of prisoners is revolving to ciyiizadon,
ind is destructive of orcry principle o. re-
fnement and honor. Tho resort to It BY
one side, Of course, furnishes prate1t fo1
Ike proceeding by the other; but neither
side among the Spauiards seems to wait fol-
= precedent. Even in old Spain tho Caslist
movement has failed for the present; ana,
among the causes Of the failure, it is stated
that tho parties to whom vas committed
the duty of nssassinadDg the Captain Gen
etal Of Catalonia did not succeed in theiI
noble enterprise.
We do not know that it is the special
duty Of the United States to undertake to
reform the cuFtom Of these Cuban belliRer.
cnts; but there ought TO be G protest by
all civilized nations against the further
toleration of the murder Of prisoners Of
, 1869-07-31

There is now bat very little doubt that
the grain crops OF the Northwest will be full
in qunntity and fair in quality. The raias
which fell SO copiously dr-ing tho summer
months have produced. ln1uriHnce Of
growth, which promises large yitl1, while
the boegy condition Of the land, from which
so much was feared, has given way 10 SUI
dcient degree Of dgness to admit Of harvest,
ing operations being carried on IN the usual
Wnv. The weather hns been good for seT-
eral dnys past, nnd, unless decided change
for the worse eaould cnsue, the farmers VIII
gather in full crops Of ali the small grains,
and sustain but a partial loss in corn.
There have been full and sufficient
grounds for The croalinGs which haro met
the car daily and hourly for SONG time past,
innsmuch as the rainfall has been very 1ul-
uhual one, though not unprecedented But
those who have calculated carefully tue par
ccutege Of loss xhich would probably essuo