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the German movement.

EplroRs LEDGER: / saw an article IN
YOUR Thursdays issue, headed Ger
many in Memphis" in which you seem
N he led into the belief from meeting
hold nv the Germans Of Memphis on the
evening of the 9th inst, that they con-
,empla,e the organization of separate
political party. As a partaker IN the
movement, / feel myself in duty bound to
inform you that this ia not our intention
vbetsoeyer. Weonly intend to organize
and fad oct how strong we are, and then
give our support to toe most capable and
honorable men Tor future elections to
offices of any kind. We do not intend to
assist in defeating the white mans party
Of our country, as it is oar own also
Nipeterths Of the Germans have worked
faithfully in the lass mppicipal election
in order to secure a victory for the whole
Democratic ticket. / do not think we
shall Oak for any offices in the coming
county election, rs. it yonld be unwise
for us to nominate candidate for any
Office after nominations are already made
BY the regular convention. a great many
have pledged themselves to support the
nominated ticket, or some independent
candidate, and will not break their
pledges under sny circumstances but we
shall ask in future eisstiOus small share
of office emoluuents and representation,
to which we are by right entitled to.
II YOU look over the tax lists on priv
iIeges. State, county and corporation.
Won will find the Germans pay large
nrobortion of the taxes. Inquire at our
different banking houses, and the officers
| will tell yoE that their German custom
amounts to no snail part of their bust.
ness. Taking all these matters ints con-
alteration, think that we are justly en-
titled TO small share of representation
ia city sad eoBpty affairs. This, Mr..
Editor, is the sole ob;es! Of pgr orgsni-
cation, and not class party. And 90
YOU say, Tits an extraordinary proceed
| ing fer the Germans to form separate
party that will look to the sole idea
Of German interests, regardless Of what
com posts to the general veal" | reply,
the Germans iasss 10 EiVe their support
to the most competent ana honoEshle
citizens for offices, at any time, whether
they are American, Irish or German.
If We hsye been inactive heretofore, this
movement on our part row should not
be miscoustrued ESPECIALLY by the press
becaufe few Objectionable individuals
connect themselves With it, who certainly
do not form the majority, or rulers of the
organization, aHd who can neither entrsp
others nor disrupt the Democratic party.
GERMAN VoTER
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THE CONVENTION AND POst
PONEMENT OF COUNTY ELEC'
TIANS


The Legislature has passed the law, as
desired by the Convention, postponing
the county elections from the tirst to the
fourth Saturday in March. This Is done
in order TO submit the new Constitution
of the Convention to vote of the people
at the same time. By SO doing it saves
the expense of two elections. which has,
of necessity, been thrown near the same
day. The election will most assuredly
come off as enacted by the Legislature
Int what will be the fate OF the miserable
botcA of a Constitution framed by the
Convention cannot now be determined.
We have been unable as yet to Ind out
what benefits the Convention have con-
ferred by meeting. 1t hss shown itself
to be merely the willing AMI pksnt tool
of the Radical party, ready TO bend tue
iruculent knee to every wink and nod
a, the Administration at Washington.
It hoe, upon every important question TOR
which it was called together, shoWn q
trucking spirit bo.h unexpected and
disgrsceful. The yoke of universal
suffrage was willingly placed upon the
necks of the people bT this body. which
was not content to wait fcF the odiOus
thing to be forced upon us. its Aotion
upon the judiciary has been equally
timid and ime-serving - afraid to
displace Radicals and to place the
election of these officers where it belongs.
Aside from these two important matters
it was unimportsnt whether the Conven-
ton met at all, and for the purpose Of
arranging the Constitution properly on
these the Convention was called together
BY the people. When the ante bellum
mummies that constitute the Convention
shall have gone through with their work,
they will find that nothing important has
been accomplished worth the naming
We will discuss. separately, each clause
of the new amendments when the time
comes, and before the fourth Saturday in
March,
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Monumental City. From there he went
10 Louisville, Kentucky.
From Louisville he went to 81 Louls,
and from statistics it is inferred that the
larger population claimed by the latter
city over Cincinnati 10 because Hiram
Rhodes didn't stop in Porkopolis. Thence
Hiram went to Vicksburg, arriving 10
the Bluff City in 1860, From there his
paregrinations led him to Leavenworth,
Kansas, and from that freedoms rleking
region back to Lopisville. Finally, he
rlided noiselessly and imperceptibly on
6is way TO Natchez under the hill In
that city, in 1869. he was elected q mem
Der of the City Council, in which he re-
NAMED till, with Alcorn, he was sent to
the United States Senate from MIssis'
sippi. He vegetables in Washington with,
az we understand. a respectable eolored
family, and his chiefregret with his Nash
vile brother is that Sumner sits in front
cf him in the Senate chamber, which is
attributable probably to the fact, that
Hiram Rhodes is not full niger.
Revels and bis brother we're never
slaves or in bondage.
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NEW ORLEANS.

New ORLEANS, February IL. - The
House Mixed School Education bill was
passed yesterday. Adjourned until Mon
day noon in honor Of the anniversary of
the birth Of Abraham Lincoln.
In the Senate the House bill providing
three millions in bonds for Board of Pub
Zig WORKS to pay for work done, was re-
ferred.
A bill Yves introduced providing bonds
to the amount Of Eve million dollars for
the construction Of levees, which was re-
ferred.
In the House the Election bill was re-
ported on favorably and made the special
order for Monday.
The steamship Bavaria, from Ham
burg, arrived here yesterday.
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Mrrrnrs. TEN. February u. L

EDIToRs LEDGER: In the lay-spit be-
tween the Gsyoso Gas Company and my
client, $. P. Read, Esq, the objection to
the subscription for want OF stamp,
was made by the counsel upon the rule
Of fighting the enemy upon all points.
Mr.. Read was not present, did not au
thorize it, and knew nothing aboEt 1t
until after the non-snit had been taken.
Relying upon this omission to stamp has
been spoken Of iDvidiously. The point
is waived, the non-suit may be seaside,
and the case reinstated for a neg trial,
when the merits alone will be our defense.
MILTON P. JARNAGS, Attorney.
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B Y Ell E G. R A P H
LATEST TO NOON TODAY.
Dispatches to the Southwestern Press
Association.
NEW YORK.

correspondence gives news for the hrst
time of the brutal murder of another
American citizen, Vincent Dauney, of
Florida. He went over to Havana from
Key West in the same steamer that con-
yeyed the remains Of Castanon, and tor
relating somewhat modified account OF
the assassination, was set upon in San
Jose street, in the evening, by band OF
armed volunteers and put to death. No
arrests we're made. After the Castanon
obseQuies nine Cubans we're passacred
in Havana, and number in Mantanseos.
Another free-love tragedy has occurred
in Brooklyn. John Goulding, we'll
known politician, was discovered in init
mate relations With the wife Of Joseph
sinnett, seaman residing at No. 80
Wyckoff street. He fed from the wrath
of Sinnett and the erring wife at ence cut
her throat With her husbands razor.
A petition, signed by between three and
four hundred residents and property
owners on One Hundred and Twenty
ninth street, protesting against the Fisk
concrete pavement now going down at
that street, was sent to the Board of
Health yesterday. The petitioners ask
tie Board to interfere and stop the work,
as many residents of the neighborhood
are now dangerously i'll from exhslations
of the composite matter. The Board
took preapt action GA the subject.
Special dispatches state that the prin-
cipsl features of the new naturalization
bill. now before the House Judiciary
Committee, take the matter from pndey
the jurisdiction Of the State courts, and
Mace il in the hands of United States
officers, and that four years of continuous
residence il necessary before application
for naturally alton viii be received. This
msst be proved by the intending citizen.
The bill will probably be reported.next
week.
Some months ago the sub.Treasury in
this city began to redeem the FIVE cent
nipkle eoins. The banks poured theirs
in ct the rate of several hundred dollars
day. Coins were received in fifty dol
lar bags, and were counted by various
clerks in the sub.Tressury.
Some weeks ago ono OF the clerks en-
ployed by Assistant Treasurer Folger,
while counting bag of bis coin, noticed
several suspicious pieces of peculiar
color, and slightly differing in general
appearance from the others 1t was sup
posed they we're counterfeit, and several
specimens we're sent to the Mint in Phil
sdelphis, where they were pronounced
spurious. Twenty-one out of every
hundred OF the nickel Eve cent pieces
presented OF the Sub-Tressury in this
city for redemption, are counterfeit.
The people of Long Island are greatly
exercised over the subject of Mormon
/ IAN, and the enemies to, and friends of,
the faith, meet frequently in the villages
to listen to the entirMormon and pro.
Mormon discussions.
Superintendent Kennedy is still en-
gagged in collecting evidence in the case
of the Prince Arthur assassination hoax.
It is understood that be acQuits the rep
resentatives of the press Of any intention
to misrepresent the case, and has evil
dence to show that the story originated
Eith the police.
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The "True story" of Revels-AH
About tine Life of the MOngreI Sen.
afar frOm mfsGigsipDf

atOr from misbibslppl.
The Nashville Union and American
gives 3 sketch of the colored United
States Senator elect from Mississippi,
which shows that he ia not 0 negro, but
an Indian. Says cur n ashvills OoteE1.
porary:
There is very little negro in him. Per-
sons who pass up and down Cedar street,
to and from the capitol, see on the north
side Of the street a drug store, With the
sign of "Rsvels & AIRY" The store is
No 80, and the senior partner OF the es-
tablishmentis Willis r. Rsvsls, brother
Of the veritable Mississippi Senator, Who
has taken his seat at the back Of Charles
Sumner. His residence is No. ~ Cum
berlsnd alley. We know something Of
Senator Revels.
Hiram Rhodes Ravels vas corn in
Chatham county, North Carolina, and
will be fifty years Of age on the 18th Of
June next His paternal ancestry was
Indian Of the Cboclsw tribe. His father
gas Rev. Elijah Rsvels, who was a mix
ture Of Indian aud African, the former
preponderating. His father is said TO
have been big Ipjun" 10 times of
"auld lang syne" in The Mississippi re-
serEation; and bic grandfather, i is
claimed, fought with the patriots at Stony
Point With Mad Anthony Wayne. SO
much for his ancestry.
Hiram Rhodes grew up as boys gene
rally do. Nothing remarkable about that.
Being very young at the time Of his birth,
he was, in early youth, started to school.
and graduated At Galesburg College, I'LL
nois. ct the precocious eye Of thirly-six,
when and where at which time he was
regarded % q particularly sprightly boy.
Between the sfes Of ihirty-six and
forty-6ve be did that extraordinary feat
Of what W old fogies call sowing Wild
eats. Bat there was & change. Hirs=
Chat is q great name) went TO Baltimore,
Fbere he remkinsd for awhile 10 he
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VIRGINIA.

HIoHsoSD, February ll.-George Rice,
Of Shenandoah, consistent Republican,
has been elected State Treasurer
DR.. Charles R. Breckinwell, we'll
known physician, theatrical lessee and
author, was killed to-day by the acct
dental discharge Of pistol.
Alexander Gardner, colored, aged
thiriy-6ve yesrs, was hanged to-day for
the rape s1i murder Of Mrs. Provost,
asd the murder Of John Baker, bis
oolored farm manager.
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Havana.

HAVANA. February IL. Felipe valdes
was murdered here last Sunday night.
A political complexion was at first given
to the deed, but It has since proved that
the murderer was actuated by motive
Of revenge.
Subscriptions for the family Of Crisis
valid are coming in freely. The Captain
General has subscribed one thousand
dollars.
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FIJNERAL NOTICE..

The friends and acquaintance Of John 7.
and Julia +. Dreury are respectfully invited to
attend the funeral Of their eldest daughter.
Lucy E.. from their residence. No. 1921 Jeffsr-
son street (extended). Sunday afternoon at two
o'clock. Service by Rev. DR.. Burns.
fRichmond IVA papers please copy1
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GEORGIA.

SLrASSAn, February IL The steamer
Two Boys, from DubliD, Ca, for ibis
port, exploded her drum of sspei Gar,
and drifted to sea in gale. The crew
aud passengers, excepting eight OF the
former. Who swan ashore. we're carried
10 sea in her. The United States steamer
Esnssuond started in pHrsuii.
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The Editor Of the New York Tribune
Is much disturbed IN bis philosophical
reveries BY the pcpulAr song Of the dsy,
"shoo. Fly" Mr.. Greeley is knoEn to
be not The most patient man 10 the world,
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To report the names Of such delirquent tar
payers as have personal property s1fheisnt 70
pay their taxes 10 the Recorder. and 70 OBTAIN
from him distress warrants authorizing a sei1-
ure aud sale Of a sufhciency ofsuch property 10
$780, '-'- N''' n. W. ROBERTSON.
fqf.f CITY Tar Collrrfor.
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No Cure, No Pay. - FoRRKsr's JUMPER
TAs-For Coughs. Group. whooping Cough.
Asthma. Bronchitis. Sore Throat. Splitting of
Blood and Lung Diseases. Immediate relief
and positive cure. or price refunded. 5Oeents.
N. B.-The genuine article has yellow labels.
with white. imprinted wrapper.
Ill.3GOnDYFAR &FALLS.
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AMusE Nj EMTs.
WI emphis Theater.

sBALpMa. BrDwRLL 4 MAoDosouGH, Propr's.
4, W. YouYGE, .................... Acting Manager.
SATURDAY EVENING, February IL The
McCulloch- Brignoli Opera Company, when
will be presented Flotows charming opera of
MARTHA. Sigpor Guioza, Conductor; Lady
Harriet Durham. :" assuming the name of Mar
tina, Miss McCulloch; !" Nancy" her waiting
maid, Miss Helmet" Lyonel," Sig, Brignoli
Tristran Muckleford." Sig Looatelii.
Overture at half past seven; the curtain will
rise at q quarter to eight precisely.
SCALE OF PRIcEs.-Dress Circle and Par
qustte equally eligible for ladies), 81 %. Fam
chairs, SO cents. Private Boxes. admitting
eight PERSONS, $40.
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VI. PENN O0WLEs.

Memphfa, Tennessee
M.th thirty three years practical experiences.
Address care X. WhitmSre. Ledger once
Refers b. permission n Jones, Brown \ Co.,
=. WaitmQro, n. s. King 4 CO.. }. 4. err
man. and J. J. Powers. .ee-lG
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wedloek-Ths Basis of Civil Society. -Es.
says for young men on the honor and happiness
of Marriage. aud the evils and dangers OF cell
bacy. with sanitary help for the attainment of
mans true position in life. Seat free. in
sealed envelopes. Address. HOWARD AsS0-
CITATION. Box P. Philadelphia. Pa. 1908
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County Democratic Ticket.

County Democratic Ticket.
FOR SHERIFF,
MARCUS j. WRIGHT.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR,
w. ID. sTRATTON.
FOR CRIMINAL COURT CLERK,
W. II. AVERY.
FOR COUNTY COURT CLERK,
JAMES REILLY.
ron oLysS OF FIRST CIRCUIT COURT,
B.T. REAvEs.
ron CLERK OF SECOND CIRCUIT COURT
p. ID. BOYLEI
FOR c1ypK OF THIRD CIRCUIT COURT,
JOHN McBRoORs.
FOR TRUSTEE,
A, WOODWARD.
CONSTABLE 5TH CIVIL DISTRICT,
p. KSARNs.
MAGISTRATES l4TH CIVIL DISTRICT
r. FLEMING,
w. l.. STEWART.
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Special Notices.

Premature Loss Of the Hair. which is so
common nova. days. may be entirely pro-
vented by the use of Bsrnen's Cocoaine. Ithas
been used In thousands of cases whore the hair
was coming out in handfuls, and has never
failed to arrest its decay. and to promote
healthy and vigorous growth. tits at the same
time unrivalled as a dressing for the hair. A
single application will render 1t soft and glossy
for several days. 14l-l47-l5S
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Notice.
Isth day Of Pebruary, 1870,

THE Forty second corporate fiscal year 1850
Il having expired, notice is hereby gwen that
shall proceed on and after the
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sale of Livery stable

sale of Livery stable.
nEFAULT having bten made in ceriain
/ trust AGREEMENT dated 18th of July. 1859,
recorded in the Registers office. OF Shelby
county. Tennessee book Of chattel mort ages'
paQeS II and ~ wherein. by agreement OF I'D.
&. Postal and John G. Lewis, l was made trus-
tee; and whereas have taken possession OF
al the property named in said trust agteementi
now therefore. on the
18th day Of February, A. d. issO'
At the overton Stable, Memphis. opposite the
0verton Hotel, at 10 o'clock am, will expose
for sals II said property q, public auctiona LOT
cash. viz: black mares, broyn horse w.
sorre horse. 2 matched ponies ioae q noIse
and onea marsl mules, carte and harness,
St1p bueEies, 2 rockaways, 3 sets single har-
ness. 2 sets double harness Also all Wnips'
blankets, bucket, saddles. brides. iced cutter
ofice fixtures, and other property in said stable.
IIsell only as t-ustes; the title vested N NO
believed good and b,Lony,si qu ,,;ilsI .
February 7, 1870. la0-lSo
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/. @. W. Blackburn, Comptroller Of the
duced to me satisfactory evidence that SAID
the laws Of the State of Tennessee imposed @
]. s. Chaplin, Accent of said Company. has Al,
state, made and provided in such cases: ",
ity to take risks and transact the business o.
lao In9 ONCE
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-14
FIRST EDITION
MIR. Mcfarland Has His Say
The Great New York Bridge.
ETC.. Etc.. ETC.. Etc, Etc.
M'FARLAND.
n Reply of MIR. Mcfarland TO his Late Wife
Mhnt He OaIIs OonhLctlnR statements.

Reply of MIR. Mcfarland bis Late WIFE,
What He Calls Conflicting statements.
The N. Y. Sun Of this morning publishes the fol-
lowing card from Mcfarland
The pretended statement of my wife, published in
the Tribune, induces me to send for publication in
the various journals in this city letters which were
written me by her at the several times to which the
pretended statement has reference. 1t is asserted
that was drunken brute, and that was very
cruel to my wife.
After reading these letters the public will Judge
for ITSELF And, even without them consider that
the verdict OF the jury iustes my course, especially
unable to produce upon the witness stand single
person from the locality where he lived during the
greater portion OF our married life, or from any
other place, who could testify that ever treated her
unkindly or spoke harsh word to her.
The testimony that Mrs. Calhoun gave during the
trial materially conflicts with what she stated in the
Indiana divorce matter She swore in Indiana that
was appointed Commissioner of Enrolment through
-,e influence OF herself and her friends and that
was discharged for drunkenness. / received the
appointment Of Commissioner of Enrolment IN April
1868, nearly three years before knew heard
OF Mrs. Calhoun, or she OF me.
She testified during the late trial that she first be-
came acquainted with in the latter part OF 1865
the position OF Commissioner OF Enrolment in 1885,
the year she swore that she first became acquainted
with me. How then could she have procured me
that appointment In 1868? received an honorable
Commissioners in this city mustered out OF service
Mr. Samuel Sinclair, publisher OF the Tribune, also
gwore In the recent trial that in the early part of
1854 he saw me intoxicated once, and that my wife
clair not acquainted with her father, Mr.. Sage
and had never seen him for years after the date
mentioned in his (Sinclair's) testimony, which, in
other respects, varied materially, and against me-
in Massachusetts, This testimony in both cases is
matter of judicial record.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-14
LATEST By TELEGRAPH.
The Western Railway Slaughter.
Production Of Fig Iron.
Important Naval Intelligence.
The North Atlantic Fleet.
Etc.. Etc.. ETC.. ETC.. Etc.
Important Naval Intelligenc,
FROM W:ASHLNGT TON.
From the North Atlantic Fleet.

Special Despatch TO The Evening Telegraph
WASHINGTON, May 14.-Her Britannia Ma
jesty's gunboat Dart, which was in the harbor
of Havana May 5, is of 42S tons and S0-horse
power, and commanded by Commander John
Carnejee. Her battery consists of 1 6S-pounder
and 2 20-pounder Armstrong guns. She is a
good-looking vessel, and reported as very swift
under steam.
Admiral Poor, commanding the North Atlantic
fleet, informs the department under date of
May that he has ordered the Tuscarora to
Havana to relieve the Nantasket, in Older that
she may go to Key West to fill up with coal and
provisions and proceed to Samana as soon as
possible, touching en- route at Trinidad de
Cuba, to inquire into the troubles existing there.
Vessels mt Marc Island, Cal.
The Mohican, Commander w. w. Low, ar
rived at the Navy Yard, Mare Island, CAL, on
the Sd, for stores and partial change of battery,
and requiring her poop-deek recaulked.
The second-rate steamer Lackawanna is being
repaired at the Mare Island (Cal.) Navy Yard.
New beams and knees are being placed for
spar-deck. She has received new planking
from the water line, and new planking is to be
placed below water line. She is also to have
considerable addition to her keel engines are
undergoing repairs and new water bottoms
being put to the boilers. 1t is thought that it
will take about five months to complete her.
The "Taliap0osa.'
Special Despatch to The Evening Telegraph
WASHINGTON, May 14.-The U. s. steamer
Tallapoosa, Lieutenant d. P. McRichie, will sail
from the Washington Navy Yard the first of
next week for the Northern stations, touching
en- route at Norfolk, Va, and Annapolis, Md.
The u. y. Yacht America,
from the Naval Academy, is going to the Navy
Yard at New York for recoppering, new sails,
etc.
Appointments Revoked.
Secretary Robson has reyak adnd hacnng CAR
penter Daniel Dwyer, the former on account
Of having been condemned by medical survey
for disabilities not originating in line of duty,
and the latter for having been reported unquali-
fed for the position and also condemned by the
medical survey.
Special Naval Duty.
Assistant Naval Constructor Theodore d. Will
son, of the Naval Academy is soon to leave for
England and France on special duty for the
Navy Department.
Court-mnrtIRl Finding Approved.
The President has approved the findings and
sentence of court-martial in the case of First
Lieutenant D. w. Wallingsford, 7th u 8.
Cavalry, and he has been dismissed the service
to date from May IL, 1870. Commander Wilson
has arrived at Charleston, Prince Edwards
Island with the Frolic, and reports that the
notice to fishermen not to trespass in Canadian
waters has so far been fully complied with.