Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-20
BY TEL E G R A P H
LATEST TO NOON TO-DAY.
Dispatches to the Southwestern frese
Association.
NEW YORK.

New YoRK, December 20.-Ihe Unitee
States frigate Albany arrived at this por
Yesterday from St. Domingo, having OF
hoard Commissioners Porter, Eagiisf
and Sackett. These gentlemen hav:
succeeded, in the name Of the United
States, in leasing from the Dominioss
authorities the bay and peninsula o.
SANTANA, for period OF nifty years, a.
the rate Of $4,000 in gold per annum
The first payment has been made
Members of the United States bar have
petitioned Congress fer an increase o.
The salaries of the Judges OF the supreme
Court
A special dispatch says: Mr.. Motley
has actually proposed to transfer the
Alabama claims negotiations to WASH
iugton, and that the proposition has beer
accepted by Great Britain. Motley has
proposed to include the question OF the
neutrality of the seas also IN the sutJ eel
of the negotiations, and the British Gov
eminent has accepted that also. No
time has been fixed for re-openlng the
negotiations.
It is reported that some of the firemen
and engineers of the Spanish gunboats
are in the Cuban interest, and will make
efforts to destroy the vessels after they
have left American waters.
The rumor is abroad that the recent
active transfer of Fenian arms and men
from this city to the Southwest was With
an ultimate reference to Cuba. New
Orleans, Key West and Mobile are to be
maze the base of operations. Some OF
the leaders of the brotherhood are known
to be at present in the South.
Mr.. George Abbott, the leader OF an
expedition whose aim is to destroy or
disable the gunboats, sailed last night In
pursuit Of them.
Il is stated thet other Government
public officials than those already men
TONED have been indicted by the Grand
Jury in Brooklyn for completely in the
late election frauds.
The Mutual base ball club left this city
last evening ria the Erie railroad en- route
for New Orleans, where they are to-play
three games.
The Tribune publishes reply from
Greeley to Gen. Butler in response to bis
former letter on universal amnesty and
universal suffrage. In referring to Gen.
Buffers opinion that some half dozen,
more or less, Confederates should have
suffered punishment 90 examples, Mr..
Greeley says. "When I've more years OF
peace shall have interviewed ! am quite
confident you will consider that two or
three examples would have been enough (;
and after the lapse Of FIVE more years you
will Sc satisfied that TO have strung up
in 1865 him Who was your choice for
President in 1865 would have answered
the purpose" He refers to many his,
torical presidents to show that seventies
after Q war do not serve to save or per-
petuate power. In short, he says there
is one lesson written all ovor the face OF
history. at seems to me that pride
goeth before destruction; that the con-
oueror in civil feud, who has glutted his
Vengeance stands often very near his
final faIl.p He cites Tennessee and the
overthrow Of the Republican party there
IS an instance of the legitimate fruits OF
proscriptive policy, and it teaches the
policy Of gweepiDg dsfranchisement aud
persecution Is leading inevitably to such
disasters in Mississippi and the defeat OF
Dent he regards as visdioation Of the
more liberal policy In conclusion, he
expresses bis corf ience that, as passions
cool and wrath abstes, thousands who
have cursed big will thank him for what
he has done and dared 10 resistance to
their sanguinsry impulses, and joyfully
trusts that this will become at last the
cos moo faith, and even that Of General
| Butler.