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The New York herald., 1870-10-24
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THg South CAROLINA DISTURBANCES. -
Further advices from South Carolina indicate
that the riot in Laurens county was the result
of political differences, although the telegraph
would impress different belief. Ii appears
that the State constables were endeavoring to
execute the laws, when they were resisted by
the mob and eight officers killed. Governor
Scott has asked that United States troops be
despatched to the scene of the disturbances !;
but In case his request cannot be granted he
will send the white militia. who are under
arms in Columbia. The Governor, evidently,
is determined to give the malcontents no cause
for another outbreak, and to avoid further col-
lision he sends only white troops 10 assist the
authorities ia restoring order, N-
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TuE AMERICANS IN PARIS who preferred 10
remain there to enjoy the fun and novelties OF
the siege have had enough of it and are
anxious to get out. They are finding the nov
city OF short ratious too expensive, aud that
Paris, cut of from tbs outside world, is a
humbuA
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A MoDEL CASipMGNER-General Wood
ford. He works as If confident of fifty thou
eaad majority, when there will probably bs
seveniy-fve thousand against him, Judging
from the republican feuds and factions in this
CITY
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PLoTs AND CoUNTERPLors There were
grave apprehensions recently of plot among
the roughs of the city to carry our approaching
elections by violence. There are now rumors
and charges afoat of plot on the other side
to carry the day by tue bayonet. All parties
concerned are evidently on the qu5 oipe, and
80 there is prospect Of an honest election
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Per.ssai Abuse 4. the Political CampnIxss
There appears to be no abatement OF the
malignant spirit in which the political GAM
paiga il conducted. The candidates ara
pelted numerically by the party papers. The
unfortunate whose name Is on the list Of
aspirants for office must expect that the
secrets Of his private as well ns his public
life will be dragged forth for exhibition and
held up to criticism ii not to Condemnation!
II would seem as though the party jonrnals
had formed league together with the objsot
OF abusing every candidate on the respective
tickets, from Governor to Coroner. We must
give them the credit for doing go to the full
extent of their ability to vituperate and scauS
daIize the candidates, one and all. s.N@ ...
But more serious feature Of this abusive
Crusade is the charge against public officials
Of very important character, such as defals
cations In the city finances--a very grave ac-
cusation, indeed, against the Comptroller. Il
seems strange that occasion should arise for q
charge like this, or that deficiency were pos,
sible in so important q department Of the city
government under Its present management
That the charge should be made at all, from q
source entitled to some consideration, even
under the impulse Of political excitement and
the heat Of election times, is reason enough
why the accusation should be answered by q
show Of figures from the Comptroller's DEPART
mont. II there is no truth In the allegation
that thsre is deficit Of some millions in the'
finances il can very easily be set aside BY
black and white statement Of the condition Of
the city funds. ~. $780, =, ""
The attacks upon General Woodford BY the
democratic organs are equally to be CON,
demned. They can only serve to strengthen.
him in the opinion Of his own party, and gain
him good many more votes in the State.j I
There IL more bitterness exhibited in this CAM
paign than we have seen for many years, and
there never was less necessity for it, because
the success of the democratic party In tho
State is assured, and no personal abuse Of tbe
candidates or public officials can change the
issue.
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INDIANS ABoUT.--It is feared that Jimmy
O'Bren has been captured by the Indians.
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BUroHER's MEAT IN PARIS has become so
precious that no one person is allowed to buy
more than one quarter OF q pound per day
We suppose this means quarter of q pound
to each person OF the population; and even at
this rate the two millions of consumers OF
Paris will eat up from six to seven hundred
cattle per day and Paris has no grass and
no forage for her cattle, 20 that they must be
nearly used up. What, then? Paris in peace
is not like New York, great seaside depot iu
which provisions Of all lands are accumulated
for expectation, but is an inland city which
lives from day to day on Its supplies from the
interior. With this siege, therefore, Paris,
with all that could be done for them, was
poorly provided for the subsistence beyond a
month or tive of its two millions Of consumers.
Before many days, therefore, we may look foi
peace or desperate sortie by -lyochu for the
deliverance of the city
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A NEAT IDEA FOR THE PARSONS. "A corr
respondent suggests that the preachers Of the
different denominations in cur city churches
should all select one text for their sermons
on particular Sunday aud give their views
thereupon. This is not bad idea. As the
HERALD furnishes the public an excellent re-
port Of all that the preachers say in the pull
pit, every Monday morning, the whole COM
munity would know how the different preach
ers looked at one extract from The Scriptures
from their various points of observation and
Interpretation, and thus afford correct idea
Of the beautiful inharmoniousness Of Christian
oreeds. II would be like putting crowd OF
people in a room aud starting them all to sing
each one song for himself. We can
imagine the effect in both cases, theological
aud musical! II the suggestion should be
adopted the religious columns OF the HERALD
some Monday morning would he intensely
funny, as we'll as they are now interesting and
instructive.
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A Coon IDEA.-It has been suggested that
a. the Park Commissioners are energetcaly
at work in the business of improving our public
parks, the occasion be taken to construct
on the Battery convenient building or build
ings for the convenience of our amateur rowing
clubs. A rendezvous of this kind would enable
our citizens to witness trials of skill between
our young men on summers evening, and
tend to encourage this healthful amusement.
Moreover. it would contribute largely to help
the reconstruction OF the lovely old Battery
and its permanent resumption as the most de-
lightful of all down town places Of public
resort and recreation. The suggestion is well
worthy of being entertained by our enterpris-
ing Board OF Park Commissioners.
A HARMLESS FICTION. 1t appears that the
New York Ledger is responsible for the
impression created in England that Senator
Mortons appointment in the place of Minister
Motley means war with John Bull on the
Alabama claims as the policy of General
Grant. But England need not be frightened ;
for in the first place, the Ledger story is of
that harmless class of corn cob ictions that
belong 10 the school Of Prcstcr John; and, in
the second place, it is understood tAat Senator
Marian ia 8ot gsing TO England
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THE NILSSON CoSoER1s. first Of the
second series Of the Nilsson concerts al Stein
way Hall will be given this evening. Lovers
of delicious music from the choicest singers
aud instrumentalists, especially those devotees
Of Orpheus and thesyrans, and of the fashions,
who have not yet attended any one Of
these concerts, have here an opportunity for an
evenings enjoyment to be remembered for q
lifetime. The troupe without Miss Nilsson is
a superb combination but with the enchanting
Nilsson it is q brooch Of brilliants encircling
the Keh-i-noer. New York may still be given
the rare attractions Of the fair young Swsde in
opera; but this is uncertain, particularly as it
appears that the whole term Of her engage
ment may be as satisfactorily to the manager
devoted to these delightful concerts.
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.
Specials TO the Ledger.
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TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
NASHVILLE,
The Crops aud Criminal
court-n, u. Thomas Announced
for COngress-Ete.


NASHVILLE, May 2l.-Much damage is
being done By the extreme and long
continued hot and dry weather to crops
in this vicinity. The thermometer has
been above $50 all this week, and not a
clopd 70 he seen.
Our Criminal Court commences On
Aonday with 900 cases on the docket, of
which sss are misdemeanors and ~ for
felony,
Hon. Dorsey B. Thomas Is announced
for Congress from this district.
There are now forty-two prisoners in
Davidson county Jail.
Intelligence from the Hon. Gustavus
A. Henry last evening states that his
condition is extremely critical, and his
death may occur at any hour. No hopes
are now entertained Of his recovery.
The Alpha is engaged to take the
place of the Tyrone in the Cairo packet
line.
The Aid Jeff yesterday to relieve the
Tyrone. She had all the necessary APP
parauF for successfully raising the
sunken steamer.
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demagognery or undue Influences
that operate on meaner minds.
There is your ticket--nominated with
unusual unanimity bya convention Of
the people, and presented for your con.
firmation on the 26th inst Less than a
week now intervenesuntil the time when
You viii be called upon to act. Let no
idle moment hang upon your hands. II
is fieldw where aglorious Triumph may
be won. If you permit yourselves to be
saddled with n motley set of Judges,
there is no redress for eight long years.
1t behooves every one who has the well
fare of society and good government at
heart to work faithfully. Let the wards
of the eityand the civil districts of the
county speak in earnest, and there will
never again be even the remotest mutter-
ing Of Radical thunder in our ears.
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Desoto,s Remains.
To the Editor of the Ledger;

10 the EuitOf OF tne 1cuttIs
Some of our people are calculating. a
grand display on the early resurrection
of DeSoto's bones. fear we are doomed
to disappointment in the hopes founded
on the discovery of the copper-fastened
boat. We are told that his followers,
to prevent his remains being insnlted,
first buried him in secret, and aiterward
disinterred the body at night, and
placed it in a strong and heavy coffin,
made by excavating cat of green oak,
over the aperture of which they nailed a
strong plank The body, thus inclosed,
was taken with great secresy to the
middle ofthe Mississippi" or Rio Grande,
'and sunk IN nineteen fathoms of water. =
The reduced condition of the Spaniards
leads us to infer that they buried DeSoto
opposite to Guachoya, an Indian village
on the Mississippi, about twenty miles
below the mouth of the Arkansas. 1t
was situated on two hills, one or two
hundred yards from the river. Another
authority says: His body was wrapped
in a mantle, and in the stiffness of mid
night was silently sunk in the middle of
the stream W. X. y.
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WASHINGTON.
Circular to Revenue Omcers.

NlECulaE ~ Aththht OhnCtfrs
WASHINGTON, May 4-The Secretary
Of the Treasury has addressed an elab-
orate circular to the custom and revenue
officers, which conveys information to be
communicated to the masters of vessels
fishing in Canadian waters The Cans
adam authorities have abolished the sys-
TEN granting license to foreign vessels to
ash within three marine degrees of the
shore, except on the southern and vest
ern coasts Of New Foundland, the shores
Of Magdelen Island, and through the
straits Of Belle Isle, where the license is
indefinitely abolished. If vessels found
within these boundaries refuse to depart
after waning they are liable to be seized
and searched. Resistance to the officers
will result in the forfeiture Of $500 and
imprisonment for two years.
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THE LATE DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN
NEW YORK.

Radicals Of New York have been boom
eranged BY the Fifteenth Amendment,
and the unfortunate throEers Of the in
strument are no~ CALLED. jade-like,
wineiur under the rebound Of their favor
tie toy. White men IN New York
will notBe degaded 70 level with the
ignorant negro. VIII The enlightened
freemen Of Shelby county suffer tamely
the same inHiction2 The victory Of the
Democracy in New York Is singing
rebuke oIfke negro worshippess, aud
they car easily see that they have been
hoisied on their ovn petard. Curses,
like chickens. come home 10 roosi, and
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!, THE RADICALS AT WORK.

The Radicals of this county are work
ing with great energy TO elect then
ticket on next Thursday. The drum
and fife are heard each night in the
various quarters of the city, calling TO-
gether the black minions of the opposi-
ton strength, that they may listen to
the hell-deserving speeches of Lewis,
Hudson and others, who are styled the
leaders of the party These men are
inAamine the minds of the negroes
to a considerable pitch against the
whites by the most immoderate utter
ances and fallacious arguments. 1t is
their daily meat and bread to thus prac-
tice upon the credulity of ignorance,
which Is made to subserve the most selfish
purposes We should not lie supinely
on or backs and permit the enemy to
overcome us without struggle to pre-
vent it. If the Democratic voters Of
the county will only come to the polls
on the day of election, and work for the
ticket there need be no fears of our
friends not coming ont all right. II re-
quires an effort on our part, for tie rsa'
son that the Radicals will do everything
in their power to defeat us. And we
should not fool ourselves about the tire
mendous Democratic majority of this
county. 1t is entirely false, and we be-
lieve this was the means of our late de-
feat; men remained at home on election
day and Rugged TO their bosoms the delu-
sive thought that, whether they went to
the polls on that day or not, the
party would come out victorious.
The result came near proving otherwise,
and showedus that we were not so strong
as was at first Unsigned. Most especially
would we appeal to the business men Of
the city to vote the ticket recommended
10 them by the late Democratic GonYen-
ton. ii is this class Of the community
who take so little interest in elections,
and vet, perhaps, are more interested
than any other II is of paramount
importance to all glasses of Shelby
county that they should haze an able
and incorruptible Judiciary for the pext
eight years. The Radicals cannot present
such ticket, and it is therefore incum-
bent upon every one TO vote for the nom
inees of the convention We have Just
had foretaste of what cor
rupt Radical Judge viii do on the
bench in the example set by Hud-
son in the Wright and Curry ease.
1t is known that he prostituted the sacred
powers Of his judges Office TO the Yilest
party ends; and after doing this he has
the effrontery to ask honest men TO vote
for him, that new lease may be taken
upon the very Office that has been so
wantonly disgraced, The individual
who, understanding this, would after
ward vote for such man, is himself no
better, and deserves to be remem-
bered and summed by his nsighbors.
The rest of the Radical ticket is as little
deserving the support Of the people as is
Hudson They each seek to foist thea
selves on the bench by appealing to the
worst passions of the negro and pretend
ing to be their only friends. We ask TO
be saved the modification of looking
upon such a Ea Of Judges Cor Shelby
county. The people can elect other aud
better men by going to the polls and
-. H. ,.ro;rb, Da,oc-a,io ticket
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NEW YORK.
Tns ,::ss s, EssBS E s%:aa.sss, .ra

Nav Y0aiK, Nay 2I-The HeFald's
cable special from London says that the
STANDARD, Ehils claiming in an editorial
thar the English possess and enjoy q
special facaIty which enables them to beaF
defeat with good humor and in a manful
spirit, endeayor at the same time, by
publication Of the meanest falsehoods, to
setract from the victory obtained by the
American yaeht s-ppho over the Cam
bria, in the late contest. Il Is 4 fact
that the sappho was sailed by Americans
solely and alone. She beat the Cambria
in che first and third races four times the
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m, aoy;l,yy i Raa;calism is now having

the deviltry Of Radicalism is now having
its reward in an ignominious defeat OF
all their false principles. iact fhe 0H1, ,s
men of Shelby turn out and We yill
furnish additional pressure 70 The mighty
forces now employed to crush OUT 'n's
polypus that has fastened upon the
country There is no hops for The had
icals Of Shelby; they are now disorgan-
lied, and we hope thai each and all Dem
ocrats will turn out on 1.-the 10Th
of May, and administer such chas-
tisement as will never be forgotten
by those leeches on the body polite, All
Good Democrats will vote the straight
ticket. No crossing or scratching, Every
man to the polls and vote the whole
ticket, and victory will follow-and such
a victory as will make the adversary
quail, and demoralize him toan extent
that will unnerve him and render him
unable to cope with the honest iohffe
yeomanry of the county for all time to
come. N 81
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A Card of Thanks.

To DR.. Arlington, DR.. Erskine, Col. M
White and Major c. Braun, | beg to re-
turn my sincere thanks for their exer-
tons in my behalf in saving my office
from total destruction To the Chief OF
the Fire Department and engine No. 3,
for their promptness and protection, |
return thanks. To Eu. McAnliffe and
Z. C. Loader, in guarding and protect
ing the unconsumed portion of my Office,
return thanks. To many other gentle
men, whose names | failed to learn, ]
offer many thanks for their promptness
and kindness in staying the further de-
struction of my Office To the thief and
incendiary is due this destruction of
property. Documents and drawings, the
labors of lifetime, the flames have de-
stroyed, and by them have sustained a
loss beyond estimation.
JAMES B. Cook,
Architect. No. 80 Madison street
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Architect, No. 3s Madison street
To the Editor Of the Ledger:

To the Editor of the Ledger;
Our great municipal satrap, the Lord
Mayor, not satisfied with his course of
petty tyranny and scurrilous oppression
of our poor but honest population, and
his todying, cringing and abject slavery
to the almighty dollar in the pockets
of our parreaue aristocracy of the bond
and scrip ring, crowns the infamy of his
course by refusing even to honor the
ashes of the dead When the remains of
the lamented Pat Cleburne were to be
honored in our city, our lord and master,
the Mayor, was approached in relation
to giving the prestige of the city gov
eminent to the procession. He refused
to do so; he acted in the negative and
adversely to request so holy and sacred,
that of q honoring the dead Can Ian
guage be strong enough to condemn and
hold up to public scorn and contempt
such acts as thessY j. u,
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RECEPTION COMMITTEE
ARRANGEMENTS /.

Excellent music-full brass and string band.
Street cars to leave Court Square every five
minutes, and run until IL at night. au
0mnibuses to leave same place at any time
cars to leave depot of Memphis and Charles
ton railroad every half hour.
Refreshments of all kinds on ground. h.
Picnic to continue until II at night. a1s
A closing of all business houses after 3 p. m.
earnestly requested; also, schools holding on
Saturdays. pa HHa 5000
pB- Tickets. admitting gentleman and la
dies, 81 CO.. Tickets TO be found at all the
book and drug stores in the city, and at other
places. 1 & l.. b. MCFARLAND, I'D
MS ffif t r. I. ENGLISH, Ia
JOSEPH L0UDEN,
j. s. HATCHER,
tat T. ID. JOHNSON, CD ~
66-n Committee on Entertainment.
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FOREIGN.

LONDON, May 2l,-In the House Of
Commons, last night, Gladstone, in re-
plying to Sir Roundall Palmer, admitted
the argument Of the latter that friendly
State or nation is bound to protect the
lives and property of all foreigners trav-
cling through its territory, and should
give special protection to members Of
legations or representatives Of foreign
countries In reference to the recent
murder of Englishmen byGreek brigands,
he said the government demanded of
Greece full investigation, and punish
ment of the bandits. aaa.aaasssu
LISBON, May 2l.-It is rumored that
Saldonha acted in conjunction with pow
erful persons at Madrid, and was inhu-
enced by determination to unite the
Governments of Spain and Portugal
under one head .t.ot
CopENHAGEN, May 2l.-The King of
Denmark has accepted the resignation
of the Danish Ministry, and new Cabi-
net will soon be announced.
PARIS, May 2l.-A correspondent says
the Gear of Russia is now at Ems and in
a precarious state of health.
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time allowed the latter and could have
claimed il by the measurement. The
Sappho would have done the same thing
in the second race ifthe owner Of the
Cambria had not been afraid to venture
across the Channel in gale Of wind
This poor, mean spirit still prevails in
many quarters. 81 Y
Steamship advices from Port-au-Prince
to May II, state that United States
Minister Bassett had waited uponSagent
to inform him officially of the ratifca-
ton of the Fifteenth Amendment TO the
Constitution of the United States. The
President replied with remarks eulogistic
to the President and Congress of the
United States, and said the people of
Hayti would feel much closer allied to
the United States son account of the
amendment
The World says that remarkable
changes in the vote Of several counties
heard from, swell Church's majority for
Supreme Judge to 10000, and appear
ances indicate that he will have larger
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ment of the bandits

Vanderbilt is said to be distributing
his property to his heirs After the
manner of John Jacob Astor, he has
lately transferred S5OO0,0OO to one of
his children for the nominal considera-
ton Of ST.
A rural editor in Indiana thinks the
"plebiscitum" is new kind of French
biscuit, something like Boston cracker.
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LAWYERS.
ELECTION.
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OFFrcR HERxAxDo IxsuRAEcK CeuPsSr,
No. Madison a.. Memphis, May ~.
T,HR STOCKHOLDERS OF THIS CON,
i pany are hereby notified that me annual
election for nine pl Directors wiii oe heia ~
this ofhce on June 18th proximo. between we
hour o. y an ana N. NELSON,
6n-s4.is Secretary.