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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-11

9ALF BASEMENT, STORES. OFFICES
nd rooms, single and in fuits, 60 rent
w. A. WHEATLEY, 8 Bethel BioeR'
" 80 dkena y ~. -.
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NKw York, Goshen and Western But
ter, at ]. pevoto's, corner Third and
Adams streets. 81
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T9OR RENT-A NEAT $1,000 o;.i.an stc. No No
NE, NV street. street. Apply to Geo. W. Mann, 10.
~, n ~ snv or $50 Front street. oS os
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THE CITY.

PITTsBURG and Kentucky coal and gas
coke. Brown & Jones, Office 2S2 Main
street, Bethel Block. ]
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Col. ANRs' Circus and Menagerie is
Justly popular.
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WANTS.

WANTED-
Two white girls to cook. wash and DO the
General work Of two Small familles n y, pl N
adjoining easements. Apply at52 anu o. s ~ sS
ford street. ~ -
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"E. F. B. is highly reeopGended by
the profession here"
@. +. MoRGASD,
34-f Editor ChreRiels, Miss
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SHOWER BATHS, 1911 Main street.
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IFyou want good old Megibben whisky,
90 to Megibben \ Bro, 1871 Main street.
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ADVERTISE your business 10 LEDsER
directory, hrst page, 7
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SEA ISLAND yard-vide Domestic
splendid article-at l21e. per yard.
NJ. KRAUs b Co,
GOT Corner Main and Adams.
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FOR SALE.

rIoR SALE o2ITTENDEN COUNTY.
A. A s,s b sG NSrGeiEkv CO.. 276 Front st.
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From New York auciions-a great bar
gain in buck towels, 81 80 and 50 per
dozen, at NJ. Krars & Co.'S, corner Of
Main and Adams streets. cot
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IL you want snad o,i Asgioben whisky
90 to MegibbsH 1 Bro, 2sl Main street
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"Tur demand for E. F. B. here is IN
pseeedeIted,'
"a I Editors MaeOn (Niss.l BsaeoE.
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SrRAwBERRIEs.- you Fant them
fresh and nice, go to T. S. Barbour, the
strawberry man, at southeast corner of
Real Street Market. IL
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IFyou want good old Megibben whisky,
60 to Megibben 4 Bro, ssl Main street.
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To COUNTRY MEReHASTs.-Just re-
ceived new prints, domesties, stripes,
plaids, linens, cottonsdes asd notions, By
NJ. Kraus & Co., corner Main and Adams
streets. O0-I
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1p,cv RESIDENCE on LINDEN ST.
XIV WHEATLEYa Bethel bIock:.
10 oom NJ Rental and Collecting Agent.
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IFyou want good old Megibben whisky
90 to Eecibben & Bro, 28l Main street
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Go to White House, Is Madison st. AIT

Cor. Sec'y Memphis Boat Club.
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81 give English Female Bitters q
hearty recommendation
G. W. VASES, N D.,
at Carrolnou, Miss.
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TSoR SALE BARGAIN
one fins large Beer Setrigerator; Apply
~ Y. d. FUCHS,
"F7 81 No. a. Jefferson street.
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LOOK at our bleached domestic, lOc-
ner ward. NJ. Klaus 4 Co.,
cot Corner Main and Adams.
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TS0R sALE--FIVE LOTS ON CORNER OF |
X Georgia and Fourth streets, Fort Picker
ing. Cheap. G. ii. D0RION, in,
s6-75 304 Front street. up stairs.
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I.OK SALE.-I HAVE A SPLENDID
Il Young, sound buggy and saddle horse, In
Sns !, rider, at n bargain. Can be seen at Joe
III Sro ans stable, IS Unien street.
oei s"'' E. WHlTM0RE,
.o4 IS Madison street.
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"ENGLIsH FEMALE BITTERs saved the
life Of my wife" ". j. GIBBoN, NJ. D.,
AT Clarendon, Arkansas.
EXCHANGE on all parts of Europe at
German National Bank, 293 Main st. So I
TIE BEST is THE CHEAPEsT.-J. De-
voto has the best Of everything in the
family grocery line, corner Third and
Adams, 69
DEEps, Leases, Bills Of Lading, Dray
Tickets, and all kinds Of Blanks for sale
at this Office. 7
Ice CREAM SALooN.-B. Rocco has
opened his saloon for ladies and gentle
men at his old stand, corner of Main and
Adams, where he intends keeping pothing
but the very beat, Give hi~ = call. 4s-t
IRISH linens, from New York auctions,
S5c. per yard, at NJ. Kraus and Co.'S,
corner Main and Adams streets. CO.
IFyou want good old Megibben whisky
go to Megibhen z Bro, 2Sl Main street.
"EYGLIsH FEMALE BITTERs is an ad-
mirsble prescription for females"
]. A. P. KESEEDF, NJ. D.,
s4-T Coifeeville, Mississippi.
NEw lot satin psrasols, SO so, at NJ.
Kraus & Co.'S, corner Main and Adams
streets. 6O-T
NKw YoRK, Goshen and Western But
ter, at ]. pevOtO's, corner Third and
Adams streets 69
ADVERTISE your business 10 LEDsER
directory, hrst page, 7
From New York auctions great bar
gain in buck towels, 81 so and 50 per
dozen, at NJ. Kraus & Co.'S, corner of
Main and Adams streets. COT
II you want soaa OIi HeeioDsn whisky
90 to MegibbsH 1 Bro, 2sl Main street
81 give English Female Btters q
hearty recommendation
G. W. VASES, N D.,
st CsrrolnOu, Miss.
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TNOR SALE, EXCHANGE Or KhNI-MI
,Iane four niles out on the fernando road,
..ortss;nin1 twelve S2d half acres good land.
vel improved; new honse. kitchen, servants
house, smoke-housc. coIn-srib. carriage mouse,
chard. raspberries, strawberries and grapes I;
inc clover lot. grass lot. garden, etc;j two
splendid cisterns and horse pond Nil be iola a
on easy terms, sos or .aascbansed for city prop
w. or rented 10 Q good tenant. For partisu-
eftS' y, LS" ~ X. WHITM0RE,
iars, GepH W puurtc lEnaER Office.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-10
American Il migration 80 spain

The London correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian writes :
"A singular project is on foot.
about which agents are busy here
and in Paris, for the colonization of q
portion of Spain, now sparsely peopled,
by emigr6nts from the Southern States
OF the Union. Some of the men who
headed distinguished commands in the
Confederate army are ready 10 lead
back to Europe the descendants of
those who two centuries ago planted the
transatlantic dominion They find it
impossible TO reconcile themselves to
the altered condition of things
that has arisen since the civil
war. They have been used to land of
traditions asd of memories, associated
with Old World institutions: and sooner
than give these up they are willing to
cast in their future lot with Catholic
and aristocrstic Spain. General Prim
Is said to favor the project, for he APP
preciates the military qualities of the
race, and naturally thinks the infusion
of new blood would be of NO little value
to his country. There will be jealousy,
ct course, excited against the new
comers on the part of the retrogade and
oigoted section Of the community. but
the Liberals in the Cortes will not OBJ.
Ject to the proposed colony; because it
would Introduce q Protestant element
into one province of the peninsula
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Settled.

We learn that a settlement of the
claim of West Virginia against the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad for back taxes,
has been had. The amount of assess
ments against the road amounted, as
we are Informed, to $4,000. Under the
resolution passed by the Legislature last
winter, compromise has been reached,
the road paying S70,0C0. This sum will
fall into the State Treasury quite oppor-
tunely. At the last session of the Leg
islature it was apprehended that tsere
would be deficit in the States finances
for the current year, of something like
$4,000. By this arrangement, hand
some amount of cash which bad not
been looked for so soon will fall into the
Treasurer's Golfers, and all financial
troubles will be effectually provided
against.
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a snake Story.

The Franklin, Indiana, Je6ersonian is
responsible for the following snake
story:
Zone day last week, tremendous,
frightful looking snake, measuring full
eleven feet in length aud as thick as a
common size stove pipe, was killed in
the section of country between Clarks
burgh and Acton, by q Methodist
preacher. He was riding along the
road and saw where something had
crossed the dust which attracted his at.
tention, and, as it seemed to be going in
the direction Of his farm, he concluded
to follow. He had not gone great way
before be found large hog which had
just been killed-how or by what means
he was unable to tell. Passing on and
nearing his farm, he discovered his cat
tie moving around as if badly frighten-
ed at something, and, on getting
near the cattle, to his astonishment, he
saw a monstrous snake winding itself
around cows neck. He hastened to
the house aDd armed himself with a gun
and an iron pitchfork, and returned to
make war against his snakesbip. In
the event he should fail to kill the
snake az the first shot, and it intended
to come at him, he intended to bayonet
it with the pitchfork. On returning he
found the snake tightening its coil
around the cows neck, and the COW
staggering and ready to drop. Getting
up within rod or so, the snake dis
covered him, and peered its head about
two feet above the cows neck, as if to
say: Don't come up nearer, or you,
too, shall be my victimp He took de-
liberate aim, and at the report of his
gun, the monster dropped, and in his
death struggles released the COW. 1t
was shot through the head. A few mo.
ments more, and the COW would have
been choked to death"
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dices, and among some there have arisen
new ambitions, that prevent them from
using the power they possess for gesu-
Inc reform. 1t is a fact not very flatter-
ing to the earnestuess of the liberal Re
publicans of West Virginia, that the reg
istration machinery in many counties is
in the hands Of the same vindictive men
whose blind subseryiency placed BORE
NAN in the Senate of the United States
Where is the consistency in proposing
to desire the ultimate enfranchisement
OF rebels, and yet calmly committing the
control of the ballot to men who have
not hesitated to disfranchise the best
Union men of the State when personal
or party exigencies seemed to require it.
inst here is where the reform is most
needed. 1t is ridiculous to pretend to
aim at the enfranchisement of reb-
elsso long as we tolerate and ap-
prove the registrars of Boremanism in
striking off the names of voters now
qualified, merely to carry out the
wishes of ambitious Office. seekers" as
Judge FERGUSON happily terms the
parties who in many localities msnipu-
late the boards of registration. 1t is
senseless to talk about giving the bal
lot to men who can't vote under the
law, so long as We allow it to be taken
away from men who under the law are
entitled to its exercise.
We could wish to see this subject en-
ter fully into our State campaign this
Fall. 1t will be a campaign involving
local issues entirely. There will be
little of party politics in it, unless the
Republicans by standing up for pro-
scription shall make that party issue.
Merge that and unite the intelligent
men of all parties in support of the pol
icy of enfranchisement, and We will
elect the best and most nseful Legisla-
ture the State has ever seen. We are
satisfied that on this issue an election
can be held at which comparatively
few of the voters on the winning side
Tould stop to inquire whether a candi-
date voted for SEYMOUR or for GRANT.
Their first and only inquiry of politi-
cal character wonld be as to his sound
ness upon the one great point of reform
in the franchise laws.
Of course our Republican friends will
take these opinions for just what they
are worth, and many may consider them
to be worth very little. If so, al right.
There's a power of consolation in Vir-
ginia and Tennessee. If questions that
ought to have no element of partisanism
in their settlement must be settled in
tho partisan arena, there is nothing in
passing events or in the condition of
public opinion to discourage Democrats.
Possibly not to-day, nor to morrow, but
surely in the end, the policy of proscrip-
tion in this State will be eff ctually dis
posed of, and when it does 60 under all
who support it will disappear with it.
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Tolk About Prescription.

In this country that must be very
miserable political system which de-
peads for its existence Tpon the fidelity
of single man. And yet prescription
has this dependence and no more. In
order to be effective its whole power
mast be reposed 10 the hands of single
officer. Generally that officer is the
Governor Of the State where the pro-
scrptive policy is adopted. He is the
arbiter of suffrage. The registrars are
the creatures of his will. They must do
his bidding. If they hesitate he dis
places them. His power to make or un-
make them is the assurance that they
will work ont his purposes.
SWAMI in Maryland, and SENTER in
Tennessee, occupied this all.powerful
position. The authority was virtually
given them to bestow:the ballot where
they pleased and take it away from
whom they pleased. All this was very
useful to Radicalism, so long as their
desires and those Of the party harmon
lied. But there came time in the his
tory of each, when other motives than
those of pure patriotism controlled
them. The results we know. AS soon
as the Head Registrar, for the Governor
of Maryland or Tennessee was nothing
more, slackened his zeal, the whole
fabric of prescription tumbled down
like castle Of blocks. What frail
and trembling basis must policy rest
upon when the detection or conversion
of single individual can thus make
dust of it.
But it was treachery," say our
"loyaP friends. Granted, for the sake
Of the argument. A party which is not
superior to the "treachery" of any one
of its members, lives always within .
hairs. breadth of ruin. A breath may be
its destruction. A knowledge of the in
evitable success of his treason may make
the traitor. A mere wanton desire to
break things may be the motive. Per.
sonal quarrels between leaders, house
hold contentiens-the bitterest of all
contentious by the way-caprice, re-
yerge, or some lucid interval of reason
and remorse, any one of an hundred
contingencies may be instrumental ii
inciting to dangerous deeds the one mai
whom the proscriptionists select FOL
their autocrat. And, worst of all, when
he does reverse the motion of the regis
tration machine, there is no remedy II
mortal hands. His power to prescribe
carries with it the power to enfrsnchise
When he absndons the one and WELD:
the other, there is no alternative but tc
stand, like STOKES, bowling and shak
ing fists at the coming flood, until sub
merged beneath it.
Will the decent Republicans in West
Virginia reflect upon the Instability O.
their structure, as illustrated by thi'
1 Tennessee businessi We hope, yet W.
doubt. Among seme of the men of tha
party who profess to be decent, liberal
= progressive, there still linger old preju
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johnson ns n Rina q cier

The Bristol Nescs of Friday, reporting
a speech lately made by ex-President
JOHNSON at Blountville, Tennessee,
says he "took the most open and
unequivocsl ground in favor of national
repudiation. The bondhold"rs, he said,
had already received the amount OF
their investments"
Only think of a prospective United
States Senator indulging i'll such naught-
insss. If ANDY is that savage in ad-
vance of his election, what will he be
when he takes his seatf Let him unite
with SPRAGUE and who will dare pull
the ribbons ever that teami
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How thoroughly the Radicals are

How thoroughly the Radicals are de-
moralized by the Tennessee election
Some rash individual having stated that
the Democrats are sanguine of carrying
Massachusetts at the next election, the
Pittsburgh Commercial remarks that
stranger things than this have hap.
pened," virtually conceding in its trep.
idation what no well-balanced mind
would claim. When the "loyap folks
get slight whaling, they shake all over
Everything looks stormy to them, and
one shower makes deluge. e
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Thomas Hughes, ct. ais. In the Municipal
CO. fC0urt OF wheeling.
Richard j. Porter, ct al. In ChanCery.

Thomas Hughes ct ais on1t In tf the wScsngp MenSspa
Richard j. Porter ct al. In Chancery.
IN A DECREE RENDERED IN TIE
/ above cause on Wednesday, the 2lst day OF
July, 1862 il was ordered that the defendant,
Richard j. Porter, do render an account oil what
moneys have came into his bands, or with
which he Is ichargesble By virtue of the trust
deed in the bill of complaint mentioned. and
through his administration of the trust thereby
created before George W. Jetfers, one OF the
Commissioners of said Court, who should credit
said Porter with all proper disbursements by
him made in the due course OF the execution OF
b;s trust and charge him with all moneys which
have come into his hands or which have been
lost if any, by his tsult or negligence; in rem
dering which account the said Defendant was
required to produce before the said Commis
sioner all necessary papers, vouchers anu DOCKS
in his possession or under his control, relating
IN his transactions under said trust, which ac-
couut the said Commissioner would take, state
and report to said Court, with any matters
specialiy stated deemed pertinent by himself
or which might be required by any OF the par;
ties to be so stated. Andit was further decreee
that said Commissioner should take PROOF OF an9
report the complainant's claims, together with
ali other claims against said trust yet unsatished
and of which satisfactory proof might Dc pre-
s-nted to him. and that he should also report
what moneys would remain OF said trust aiter
satisfying said claims.
Notice is hereby given that en- Monday, the 9TH
dsy of September. 1863, at 10y office on Monroe
street, in the city Of Wheeling, wlil proceed
70 take and state tho account in the decree
aforesaid mentioned. Notice Is also hereby
given that / will, at nv said Office on Monroe
street In the city Of Wheeling, on and after
Mondsy, 9Th day of September, 1859, take proof
of ali claims against the trust mentioned IN said
decree. All persons having such claims are
berebv tiJed TO present them, together with
the necessary proofs thereof, before me at said
nIane ON or before the 10th day of September,
isse. which day hereby designate ss peremp-
tory day, after whish will receive no furtheF
r'ON G. W,JEFFERS.
H - .N Commissioner.
CALpwE.L L BRO, Sors for Complainants.
argS.oauAt
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To.moRRow.

-
'IN morrow" the maid says, blushing ned.
Tomorrow and my love will we'd
She little thinks that the groom win press
On her fair, clear brow cold caressi
It would blanch' her cheek as white as snow,
II you whispered his name but ever so low;
For, ere the morrow, with gasping breath,
She is wed to the phantom men called Death
And stark in her bridal garments lies.
The love-light faded from her. eyes.
The msrcbant bends with throbbing brain,
Greedily counting loss and gain,
Does he reckon the cost of coffin and pail
Does he ever think of Death at all
No for tomorrow he says, I'll go
Out in the fields where the roses blow
III order palace fair to see, E
And its spacious halls will ring with glee
And his house is built-O, fair TO see
With the silent worm for his company.
On the crowning peak of life's high hill!
The wbite.haired man looks forward still,
Unheeding the moments that steadily How,
Whirling the thread of life as they go.
To him, bowed down meath the weight of years
The morn Of dread no nearer appearsl
Than when he walked with careless feet
Adown the stream of childhood sweet,
The youthful maid, the strong, stern man,
And tottering age of the morrow plan.
In the pride of your strength, brave man, be
ware;
And youth and age in time prepare;
For though TO day the sun beams bright,
Tomorrow clouds may obscure its light
And he who walks in health today
To morrow may be but senseless clay.
There's spectre glides with noiseless tread
This night he may stand beside your bed
And many there be now laughing loud
Who will, ere the morrow, fill shroud.
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SENTER's majority is now estimated at
$1,000. The Tennessee Legislature is
Overwhelmingly Conservative. Has this
grand triumph of liberal ideas no limit !
When proscriptive Radicalism once
starts downward it has no stopping
place short of humiliation. Unless q
miracle of wisdom control Radical coun-
sells in West Virginia, this fine old story
will shortly be repeated IN eur State.
The permanent Acknowledgement Of
white men is an impossibility.
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VIRGINIA, a mighty "rebep State, is
free. Her people have voted every
proscriptive statute from her books
West Virginia, loyal and true, love" ,"
that had strong help for the Union
and hearty hate for secession, holds
more than one third OF her people in po-
litical bondage. Thus it appears that
the people of Virginia who went into
rebellion saved their liberty while those
who didn't lost theirs. Such, at least,
is the logic of "loyal" legislation.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-10

English papers and people complain
because the Duke of Edinburgh was
repaid the value of the presents which
he distributed in his colonial VOYAGES.
to the amount of f3,3S4 l4s. IL is
asked whether his Royal Highness has
made over 10 the nation all rs
which he has received, while asking the
nation to pay for what he has given in
return.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-10

The editor of the Hot Springs Courier
is cheerful philosopher. Unable, the
other day, to print more than a half
sheet, he declines to apologize to his pa
irons; for, he says: "We get no more
thanks for good paper than for bad
one; and get no more cursing for a bad
paper than for a good one."
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-10

Old Slate computes that the amount
of whisky destroyed at the Philadel phis
fire would have made $4,000 900
straight" drinks; and At Is cents a
glass the whole would amount to $500.
600, 900 or a sum sufficient to extinguish
more than one-Ihird the National debt
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-10

AUTHORITIES differ as to the time and
place at which the eclipse was most
perfect. STOKES thinks the time was
last Thursday and Tennessee the ia
vered spot of the greatest observation.
He, however, has special reasons for
raking gloomy views of things.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-10

Atlanta papers are discussing the
question whether an editor ought to
make a public acknowledgement of a
present of whisky. The popular i'm
preston is that he had better keep his
mouth shut" about the bottle-the neck
of it-as long a. there is anything in it.